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Joshua Kehler: hey everyone,
this is Josh Kaler.

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Welcome to the Grace House Podcast.

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Just wanted to take a moment and do
a little intro  mainly because the

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audio's pretty rough on this episode.

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We recorded it with the phone.

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We didn't have our normal recording
equipment,  as we all gather together.

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And so you hear a lot of background noise.

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You hear, everybody basically.

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Even though we cut out the conversations
just to maintain the intimacy of the

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group,  you do hear a lot  but we
thought,  the content was worth it.

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And,  if you make it to the end, if you
make it through it, I hope you're blessed.

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All right.

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Bye.

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let's turn in our Bibles to
Ephesians chapter six this morning.

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We're making our way through the book
of Ephesians in Stockton, but we're

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on the theme of spiritual warfare
and we're looking at the armor.

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Verse 10.

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Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the
strength of his might Put on the whole

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armor of God that you may be able to
stand against the schemes of the devil.

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For we do not wrestle against flesh
and blood, but against the rulers,

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against the authorities, against
the cosmic powers, over this present

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darkness against the spiritual forces
of evil in the heavenly places.

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Therefore, take up the whole
armor of God that you may be able

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to withstand in the evil day.

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And having done all to stand firm stand,
therefore, having fastened on the belt of

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truth and having put on the breastplate of
righteousness and his shoes for your feet.

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Having put on the readiness given by the
gospel of peace and all circumstances

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take up the shield of faith with which
you can extinguish all the flaming

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darts of the evil one and take the
helmet of salvation and the sword

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of the spirit, which is the word of.

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Praying at all times in the spirit
with all prayer and supplication.

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To that end, keep alert with all
perseverance, making supplication for all

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the saints and also for me, that words may
be given to me and opening my mouth boldly

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to proclaim the mystery of the gospel for
which I am an ambassador in chains, that I

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may declare it boldly as I ought to speak.

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Jeremiah 23,

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Behold, the days are
coming, declares the Lord.

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When I will rise.

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For myself, David, a righteous
branch, and he shall reign his king

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and deal wisely and shall execute
justice and righteousness in the land.

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In his days, Judah will be saved
and Israel will dwell securely.

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And this is the name by
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the Lord our righteousness.

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This is the word of the Lord.

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Thanks Father.

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The Lord our righteousness.

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Now, there's a story, a pastor tells
about going to a purity conference If

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you haven't been to a purity conference
before, and the, at least the ones I grew

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up going to, you're really missing out

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You're missing out on a, you're
missing out signing a contract and,

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getting a little gold necklace to
wear a vessel for honor or pure

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woman, a garden enclosed certificate.

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but at this particular purity seminar, the
youth pastor wanted to make a point about

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the holiness of God and our commitment
to him and following in that holiness.

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And so he took a rose freshly cut,
beautiful long stand red pedals, and he

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said, I want you to pass this around.

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I want you to smell it.

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I want you to, see how
beautiful this thing is.

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And as it was passed around in the hands
of hundreds  the leaves got pulled off.

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The pedals as it was passed
around, began to fall off.

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The stem broke.

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And so as to drive his point
home, he asked for the rose back.

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And as it was given back to him, a rose
was a shabby, thing in its former glory.

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It was broken, it was
wilted, it was destroyed.

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It wasn't beautiful anymore.

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And to drive his point home, he said,
who would want something like this?

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Who would want something like this?

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Do you think God would
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something broken, something de
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something less than it was meant to be.

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The pastor telling you the story said
that he had his friend there who was

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coming to, church for the first time,
who had a sexual history, and you

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could see the weight of the world just
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she's at the end of herself.

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She's gonna try Jesus.

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She's gonna see if he's the answer.

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She hears that he has nothing
for her because she's not good

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enough, because she has a history.

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She has a past because she's
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Now we know in the gospel.

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that the answer to that pastor's question
of who wants something like this is

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to yell out at the top of the lungs.

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Jesus does.

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That's exactly who he has come for.

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he hasn't come for the well, but
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great physician of our souls.

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Guilt is feeling bad
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Shame is feeling bad about who you are.

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Guilt is feeling bad
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Shame is feeling about who you are.

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Shame is an interesting thing because
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It could be our own doing.

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We could participate in something
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look at and we go, I can't believe
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I can't believe I participated in this.

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I can't believe that this
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But shame can also be what's done to us.

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We can experience tremendous
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because of damage that other people have
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done by other people is irreparable.

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That it is something that's a baggage that
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that it's something that weighs us down
and it's something that makes us blessed.

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So we're talking about spiritual warfare,
and we're talking about the armor

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specifically, and we're talking today
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the breast plate of righteousness.

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Little re recap.

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Paul says at the end of his letter,
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shifting gears in the sense that
this is a whole new subject.

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He's saying all the environment of
where you find God's infinite blessings

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that are already yours in Christ Jesus,
Jesus being seated with him in the

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heavenly places, your new identity,
that he's one for you, your security

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in him, that before the foundation of
the world, he chose you in him, right?

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And that it gave him pleasure to do
that, that it pleased the Lord and on,

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and we were dead and our trespasses
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he made us alive together by grace.

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You've been.

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Through faith and that
faith isn't even yours.

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It's the gift of God and
that he changes your life.

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He transforms you.

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God is not in the business
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He's in the business of
making dead people alive.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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That's what our God does.

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He's not remodeling us.

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, he's making us noon.

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New creations in Christ.

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Old things have passed away.

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Behold, all things have become new
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taking place in the midst of a battle.

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A battle, but that this battle isn't
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often get our eyes on other people.

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It's this person, it's
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It's this president, it's this policy.

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God says, we're not wrestling
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We're wrestling against
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Our wrestle isn't against the
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So often the church is trying to change
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If we just have the right person in
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get this one through, if we can get
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If we can give more of a handout to
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to people, then that's the answer.

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But God's way is different.

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He puts his spirit into the church
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First of all, between one another.

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By this, the world will know
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love you have for one another.

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And in things like enemy love, that we're
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with good that we now, this is hard to do.

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This is gonna, this is going to take
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the resources to be able to do this.

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But Matthew 25 says that we give
somebody a drink of cold water

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in his name, who's thirsty.

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The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed.

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It's small.

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It seems like it doesn't impact, it
seems like it's little that the gates

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of hell can't prevail the gates.

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Amen.

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And it's through these ways of Jesus that
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He puts a spirit up.

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You see the church is like a boat
and the world is like the water.

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The boat is made to be in the water, but
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But we tend to either make a
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shore and give tours of our boat.

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We're like, this thing is so sale worthy.

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It's like the Titanic, but
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It's unthinkable, but
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, and there's people drowning.

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.  and they're crying out for rescue.

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But we're content to stay away or we go to
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. And we're underwater.

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We're all the water's all around us.

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And we cannot save drowning people either,
but we're in a spiritual battle that he is

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called the church to, to follow Jesus in
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That's the kind of
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And Satan wins when we engage
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You remember Peter as they come to
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And Jesus is just destroying
his authority, right?

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He says, I am.

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And they all fall back.

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The soldiers this dead man.

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But Peter pulls out his sword.

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He's it's time.

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I've been waiting for this.

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I'm showing my sword, And
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And  Jesus says, put away your sword.

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That's not, that's on our warfare.

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That's not where we engage.

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The weapons of warfare are not carnel.

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. They're not fleshly.

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But they're divine.

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they're mighty in God through
the pulling down a stronghold.

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So we're in a battle.

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This battle's run against splash
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four, let me quote it, right?

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for the weapons of royal warfare
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divine power to destroy stronger.

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We talked about the belt of truth,
the foundation of the armor.

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It holds everything else together.

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And we saw that the enemy will try
to either get us to doubt God's

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word or to neglect God's word, to
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He's happy with both outcomes, because
that is truly the foundation, we're

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gonna talk about righteousness.

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Where are we getting this truth from?

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We're getting this from scripture,
God's revelation to us that he has

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written his very breath to us, right?

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That this scripture is God breathed.

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truth is objective.

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That means that there is actually an
objective standard of truth, If there

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is truly a creator and he made the world
a function a certain way, then there

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is an objective standard and objective.

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Two existence.

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I don't know if you guys
ever watched a show.

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Greatest American Hero.

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Yes.

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it was like the perfect show.

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Perfect.

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this guy goofball got a suit that
gave him superpowers, but from

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episode one, he lost the manual.

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As a kid, I was just so frustrated
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manual because then he had these
amazing, he could shrink, he could,

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he was basically Superman, but
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And, and so he flew, he crashed everywhere
he flew, he did not know how to do.

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He'd always do everything wrong
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reality telling him this is how it was
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And so there is in the universe,
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and the molecules and the atoms
and objective standard of reality.

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That this is how lives function.

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This is how lives flourish.

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This is how lives, grow.

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That when God says, this is the
way you flourish, this is the

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way that, in, relationship, in
relationships, that causes flourishing.

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And when we go against that,
it leads to that breakdown.

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And we see that.

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We see that with people's truth.

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wisdom is justified by our children as
one of my favorite little biblical quotes.

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And it just means you have your wisdom.

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Let's see how your kids.

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You have your wisdom.

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I'll find out how good your wisdom
is based on the fruit that it

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produces, is what that saying means.

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God as creator tells us how
things work and how they

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flourish according to his design.

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We use then as the belt
of truth, knowing truth.

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We use the objective truth
subject subjectively.

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We use it inwardly, right?

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We run up to the watch tower of the mind,
and we use the truth of what God says

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is truly true and what is truly real.

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To shape our identity, to shape our
attitudes, to shape our hope, to

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shape our love, to shape our future.

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We have to say as we talk about
truth, that Jesus is the truth.

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Jesus is the truth.

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In fact, Paul says that earlier in
Ephesians and Ephesians four 20 to

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21, he says, but that's not the way
you learned Christ, assuming that you

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have heard about him and we're taught
in him as the truth is in Jesus.

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So we hear the story of the rose that the
purity seminar, and we know because we

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know Jesus what the right theology is.

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Even though someone can use Bible verses
to say, be holy as I am, holy, God's

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not gonna accept you because he's holy.

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We know the story of Jesus, that he
came as the holy one to make us holy.

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And that the only holiness we can approach
God in is Jesus' holiness imperfection

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that he won for us, not in our own.

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I think it's so important to
remember that and to see scripture

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through the lens of Jesus.

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It is to be our Herman Nuk.

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It is to be our means of interpretation.

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Philip, on the night at night said
to Jesus, his heart's full of worry.

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Jesus has just told him, don't
let your hearts be troubled.

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You believe in God, believe also in me.

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And Philip just says, I
don't know if that's enough.

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And he says, just show us the
Father and it'll be enough for us.

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That's what we need.

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That's the answer.

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And I love Jesus' response.

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Philip, have I been with you so
long and you still do not know me?

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If you've seen me, you've seen the Father.

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he's the exact representation
of the heart of God.

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He's the revelation of God.

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Jesus is the heart of God.

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So we don't have truth abstracted
away from tone attitude,

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how he draws near to the weak,

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how he fights against injustice.

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When people are taking advantage of other
people, like when he is turning temple

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tables over in his court, we know jesus.

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So it's not just using Bible
versus in an abstract way.

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the whole point is that
he's the hero of the story.

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in every way, shape or form.

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You've got Paul who's talking to
the church in Second Corinthians

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chapter eight about being generous.

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And he doesn't just tell
them, be generous, you fools.

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that's the right thing to do.

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He says, think about the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who was rich beyond all.

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, the wildest imagination.

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we love the story of the golden goose.

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that, that lays golden eggs.

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Oh, if we just had the golden goose or,
stories in that vein, the un caused cause.

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To create the alpha, the omega,
the beginning and in who can

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bring anything into existence.

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He's not just the father who
has cattle on a thousand hills.

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He can create the hills and a
billion more like he is rich.

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And it says, think about him.

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Think about the grace of our Lord
Jesus, who was rich, but for your

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sakes became poor so that you
might experience true riches.

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says, meditate on that.

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Let the story of Jesus who had
everything and gave it all up so that

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you could have everything with him.

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Let that melt your heart until your
heart generosity flows out Him.

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. So it's not just abstract
truth, but it is Jesus truth.

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It's Jesus being the hero of every story.

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when I love the Old Testament.

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I love it because he
is the hero everywhere.

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When I read in Jeremiah 17 about the
bush, you know that is an evergreen,

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it doesn't wither, it doesn't fade,
because it's planted by the stream.

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I read it and I'm like, I want to be that.

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I wanna be that.

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But so often I'm like the bramble.

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I'm the tumbleweed who doesn't have root
and is blown about by every situation.

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That's more true to who I am.

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Like the situation changes and
I'm like, oh, I'm this way.

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I'm flip flopping like
a fish out of the water.

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My faith is weak.

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And what does this story say?

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It says, yeah, you were the bramble.

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He said, but I planted
you by me being uprooted.

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and being cast into the wilderness.

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He was crucified outside
of the city of water.

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He cried.

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I thirst and he planted me in the water's
life so I never have to thirst again.

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Jesus is the rescuer of
every story in the Bible.

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He's the hero when he gets all the glory.

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Amen.

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He tells me the truth about who I am.

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I don't have to pretend.

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I don't have to fake,
I don't have to front.

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I can be honest that Lord, more often.

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I'm like, that tumble we, he says,
I know that's who I came for.

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And he plants us by that stream of water.

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So the belt of truth holds
everything else together.

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Jesus, the way, the truth
in life, not a truth.

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The truth fits off right.

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The breast plate of righteousness there.

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Stand verse 14 of chapter
six, standing there for having

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fastened on the belt of truth.

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Having put on the breast plate of.

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Rest.

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Plain is a kind of a generic word.

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It's thorax or where we get that word
for thorax, it means just to cover from

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your waist up all the vitals is the idea.

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so much in scripture.

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It's funny, when we read about the heart,
it's actually talking about the vows.

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We just don't have a modern way that
we would translate that in a gut.

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Yeah.

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it's, when it says, my heart turned
within me, it's my bowels churn.

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And we're just like, I
don't like that as much.

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I like the heart.

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I like, on Valentine's Day we give hearts.

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We don't give large intestines,
it's a little more, but what's

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fascinating is it's talking
about the seed of the motions.

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It's talking about, what we feel about
things, what we feel about ourselves,

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which are powerful, how we perceive.

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The idea is to that, that seed of
emotions, the way we perceive and

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the way we feel intensely, the
seed of our affections, covered by

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the breast plate of righteousness.

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Now righteousness, and in a broad
sense it means the state of him

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who is as he ought to be, righteous
to condition, acceptable to God.

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it can also be translated
integrity, virtue, purity of

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life, rightness, correctness
of thinking, feeling or acting.

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And, because I work full-time beyond
full-time sometimes, I'm constantly

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listening to other Bible teachers
and what their take is on things.

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It's one of the ways I stay
connected and redeemed the time.

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and it's amazing the division on
people who say this is talking

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about the righteousness that we
give to God, that it's more about,

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integrity, it's more about, it's
some really good Bible teachers.

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more about that.

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and I want to say that's good, important,
like we should be bearing fruit.

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, right?

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Like fruit is helpful.

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Yes.

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To us, to our wives.

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Oh my goodness.

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Fruit is so helpful to our wives.

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if you want to do something for your
wife, don't buy earrings or a necklace.

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, produce some fruit of Jesus.

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anyways, I don't know.

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Is that true?

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yes, it is true.

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It's important into what God's
doing in his kingdom in this day

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and age that we might bear fruit.

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That he might get glory.

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like that is such a, and I'm
not playing that down at all.

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I just don't think that this is what
he's talking about here, because he's

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talking about standing in the evil day.

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, he's already said, number one
stand and the strength of the

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Lord and the power of his mind.

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, that's that's how we stand, right?

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Yeah.

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. And so in the evil day, that's great,
but I just, good luck on standing in

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the evil day with your righteousness.

402
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yeah.

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It's, when we say Good luck with
that, I want to read you a story.

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it's one of my favorites.

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It's one that changed me.

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Luke 18 verse nine to 14.

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Verse nine.

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He also told this parable to
son who trusted in themselves

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that they were righteous.

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So there's our theme right there.

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and treated others with contempt.

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Two men went up into the
temple to pray, won a Pharisee

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and the other tax collector.

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And you have to understand
at this time, people didn't

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miss when they heard Pharisee.

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like we do.

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We're like boo.

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You know where we boo?

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but one of Pharisee, one of
the other attacks collector who

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would be like a Nazi sympathizer.

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Someone from would be like a Jewish
person selling out his fellow

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juice to the Nazis telling him,
oh yeah, they're hiding in here.

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So that's who you boo up.

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That's the villain of the story.

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The Pharisee standing by himself prayed.

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Thus, God, I thank you that I'm not like
other men extortion or unjust adulterers

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or even like this task tax collector.

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So first of all, you have to
notice that he gives God credit.

429
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Yeah.

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He says, God, it's you
who did this in my life.

431
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That is so crazy to realize.

432
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. He's not saying I did this all.

433
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He's saying, God, thank you for
making me unlike other people.

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okay.

435
00:24:26,165 --> 00:24:29,525
That's a little, that's a little whoa.

436
00:24:30,740 --> 00:24:32,030
I never read that part.

437
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, he said, I fast twice a week.

438
00:24:33,431 --> 00:24:34,871
I get ties of all that I get.

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But the tax collector standing a
far off would not even lift his

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eyes to heaven, but beat his breath
saying, God, be merciful to me.

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A sinner or the sinner.

442
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Like I'm the only one in the room.

443
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I'm no, I'm not blaming anybody else.

444
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I'm not comparing myself to anybody else.

445
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It's me and you.

446
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God, as I tell you, this man went to his
house justified rather than the other.

447
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For everyone who exalts himself
will be humbled, but the one who

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humbles himself will be exalted.

449
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And that's a root word
there for righteousness.

450
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That justification made right.

451
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Put in, right standing.

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with God.

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. And so you have a Pharisee who
is like the hero of the day.

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He's the pastor and he is
God, you've trust me so much.

455
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I'm so grateful that you've
done this, you've given me

456
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this, you've made me this way.

457
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That you can always tell whether
somebody gets grace and somebody

458
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doesn't get grace, as if there's pride.

459
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, then that person doesn't
actually understand grace.

460
00:25:32,972 --> 00:25:36,032
, you could say grace, not just at
dinner, you can use the words,

461
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you can use the terminology.

462
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We're really good at that in the church.

463
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We get a buzzword and then
it's stamped onto everything.

464
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I had a pastor friend who told me we
were getting ready to go on a flight and

465
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he said, the gospel I think is a fad.

466
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And I was.

467
00:25:52,932 --> 00:25:54,212
I'm deeply offended, sir.

468
00:25:57,182 --> 00:25:59,252
. And to me the gospel meant something.

469
00:25:59,732 --> 00:26:00,152
Yes.

470
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So weighty because it changed my life.

471
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. Yeah.

472
00:26:04,003 --> 00:26:05,053
But I could see he was right.

473
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It got slapped on every book.

474
00:26:06,258 --> 00:26:09,815
It was gospel parenting gospel business
gospel, this gospel driven gospel.

475
00:26:10,085 --> 00:26:12,921
And then people move away
from that to the next thing.

476
00:26:12,921 --> 00:26:14,098
It was, it's this system.

477
00:26:14,098 --> 00:26:14,788
It's this thing.

478
00:26:14,788 --> 00:26:19,168
We get what's popular and you can
use the term grace, but if there's

479
00:26:19,168 --> 00:26:22,588
not a humility and they worship

480
00:26:26,008 --> 00:26:29,578
and awe that says what?

481
00:26:34,738 --> 00:26:36,390
If there's ever a, I said it once.

482
00:26:36,390 --> 00:26:39,720
I've told you guys the story
when I was, are you this kid

483
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,370
foul mouth just got saved.

484
00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:43,920
And I walked out of there and
said, at least you got me.

485
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,120
God, I am.

486
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:46,500
I haven't compromised.

487
00:26:46,535 --> 00:26:47,765
I literally like pee.

488
00:26:48,015 --> 00:26:50,675
You get out of my sight.

489
00:26:50,684 --> 00:26:54,790
that is you re cuz I didn't get grace.

490
00:26:56,020 --> 00:27:03,730
And so here is saying, God, he's using
the lingo, God, you did this in me.

491
00:27:03,806 --> 00:27:05,696
. But the root of pride hasn't been removed.

492
00:27:05,701 --> 00:27:08,366
And Grace is an ax to our.

493
00:27:08,498 --> 00:27:14,858
. It is the sort of the spirit to
our ego, our self-righteousness.

494
00:27:14,874 --> 00:27:17,507
, it chops it down at the root.

495
00:27:17,561 --> 00:27:19,395
, because grace levels,
it's purely different.

496
00:27:19,463 --> 00:27:21,167
sin creates a delusional field.

497
00:27:21,167 --> 00:27:26,233
and especially with pride and
self-righteousness, but I don't know.

498
00:27:26,253 --> 00:27:29,249
we've heard it in our churches as
we've heard it preached that, here's

499
00:27:29,249 --> 00:27:33,749
what Jesus has done, but you go do
your part in a sense, instead of

500
00:27:33,749 --> 00:27:38,249
realizing that because of what Jesus
has done, he enables me to do my part.

501
00:27:38,309 --> 00:27:40,679
Like he like it, it changes everything.

502
00:27:40,724 --> 00:27:45,630
and so there's this sense, there's
this way often that, it's my integrity.

503
00:27:45,630 --> 00:27:49,407
It's my, this, it's my, that,
that is going to, win the

504
00:27:49,407 --> 00:27:50,997
day or recommended me to God.

505
00:27:51,044 --> 00:27:56,697
a crazy story about someone
who thought he wase.

506
00:27:57,597 --> 00:27:59,337
and was standing in his righteousness.

507
00:27:59,418 --> 00:28:02,268
and again, I come back to
not a good place to stand.

508
00:28:04,308 --> 00:28:05,197
good luck with that.

509
00:28:05,230 --> 00:28:09,190
Philippians chapter three, this is what
Pulse is about, standing in righteousness.

510
00:28:09,213 --> 00:28:15,840
and honestly, I don't think we had
anybody in this room, no offense who

511
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:17,860
had it going on like Paul did, or Saul.

512
00:28:17,907 --> 00:28:22,797
but finally my brothers verse three
or verse one, rejoice in the Lord to

513
00:28:22,797 --> 00:28:27,087
write the same things to you, is no
trouble to me and it's safe for you.

514
00:28:27,897 --> 00:28:29,217
Look out for the dogs.

515
00:28:30,297 --> 00:28:31,917
Look out for the evil doers.

516
00:28:32,397 --> 00:28:35,007
Look out for those who mutilate the flesh.

517
00:28:35,007 --> 00:28:40,587
For we are the circumcision who worship
by spirit of God and the glory in Christ

518
00:28:40,587 --> 00:28:44,577
Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.

519
00:28:44,757 --> 00:28:47,637
Though I myself have reason
for confidence in the flesh.

520
00:28:47,637 --> 00:28:53,877
Also, if anyone else thinks he has reason
for confidence in the flesh, I have

521
00:28:53,877 --> 00:28:59,667
more circumcised on the eighth day of
the people of Israel, of the tribe of.

522
00:29:00,627 --> 00:29:06,837
A Hebrew of Hebrews as to the law
of Pharisee as to zeal a persecutor

523
00:29:06,837 --> 00:29:12,837
of the church as to righteousness,
under the law, blameless.

524
00:29:15,207 --> 00:29:19,737
But whatever gain I had, I counted
as loss for the sake of Christ.

525
00:29:19,737 --> 00:29:24,117
Indeed, I count everything as loss
because of the surpassing worth

526
00:29:24,117 --> 00:29:25,947
of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord.

527
00:29:25,947 --> 00:29:30,357
For his sake, I've suffered the
loss of all things and count them

528
00:29:30,357 --> 00:29:36,387
as rubbish garbage in order that I
may gain Christ and be found in him.

529
00:29:36,387 --> 00:29:42,387
Here's the key, not having a righteousness
of my own that comes from the law, but

530
00:29:42,387 --> 00:29:47,427
that which comes through faith in Christ,
the righteousness from God that depends

531
00:29:47,427 --> 00:29:53,667
on faith, that I may know him and the
power of his resurrection, and may share

532
00:29:53,672 --> 00:29:58,137
in his sufferings becoming like him in
his death, that by any means possible, I

533
00:29:58,137 --> 00:30:02,127
may obtain the resurrection from the dead.

534
00:30:02,457 --> 00:30:06,957
So he says, I need a righteousness
that comes from without.

535
00:30:07,017 --> 00:30:11,836
I need a righteousness that doesn't come
from me trying to obey the law, trying for

536
00:30:11,836 --> 00:30:14,446
me to be moral, trying for me to be good.

537
00:30:14,776 --> 00:30:17,356
I did that and I did it.

538
00:30:17,406 --> 00:30:21,242
Blamelessly, he gets to the, the
10th commandment  commandment.

539
00:30:21,242 --> 00:30:22,032
That shall not.

540
00:30:22,832 --> 00:30:26,042
That doesn't, because that's
the one that isn't outward.

541
00:30:26,042 --> 00:30:26,552
It's inward.

542
00:30:29,312 --> 00:30:30,422
and he said, that destroyed me.

543
00:30:31,232 --> 00:30:38,102
But everything else, everybody would
look at me and say, ah, you're amazing.

544
00:30:38,102 --> 00:30:43,802
We should wa write a biography
about you . You know what a resume.

545
00:30:44,102 --> 00:30:44,762
What a resume.

546
00:30:45,572 --> 00:30:46,142
What a resume.

547
00:30:46,142 --> 00:30:47,312
And he says, salt garbage.

548
00:30:47,989 --> 00:30:54,218
So Paul, he here, he says, I need
a righteousness that's not from me.

549
00:30:54,273 --> 00:30:57,963
Cause Paul also, he would say, forgive
the things that are behind, but then

550
00:30:57,963 --> 00:31:01,173
he'd bring up his testimony and say,
sometimes it's hard to forget because

551
00:31:01,178 --> 00:31:02,763
I was a persecutor of the church.

552
00:31:03,383 --> 00:31:03,873
Yeah.

553
00:31:03,964 --> 00:31:08,554
I think probably in that first century
people were a little skeptical, Paul, when

554
00:31:08,554 --> 00:31:14,805
he's coming in and preaching, and they're
like, you killed a, an aunt and mine or

555
00:31:14,805 --> 00:31:17,515
an uncle, and he had his hand, in that.

556
00:31:19,225 --> 00:31:22,765
So here he was a persecutor
of the church, an enemy.

557
00:31:22,774 --> 00:31:25,539
and even Jesus, when he reaches
them, he opens his eyes on the

558
00:31:25,539 --> 00:31:27,879
macu road, falls to the ground.

559
00:31:27,879 --> 00:31:30,886
He says, Saul, why are you persecute me?

560
00:31:30,886 --> 00:31:31,846
Who are you Lord?

561
00:31:32,236 --> 00:31:32,956
I'm Jesus.

562
00:31:32,956 --> 00:31:33,856
Who you're persecuting.

563
00:31:33,883 --> 00:31:39,703
so identifying the body of
Christ, the church with himself.

564
00:31:40,483 --> 00:31:43,453
You're wounding me, Paul to my body.

565
00:31:44,323 --> 00:31:46,993
So Paul, he's like
desperate for righteousness.

566
00:31:46,993 --> 00:31:50,893
That isn't his, he's
not combining resumes.

567
00:31:52,183 --> 00:31:53,470
And I want to do that.

568
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:56,170
I like that.

569
00:31:56,260 --> 00:31:56,980
I like the hybrid.

570
00:31:57,005 --> 00:31:59,645
you got the electrical
vehicle with the gas.

571
00:31:59,825 --> 00:32:01,140
I like the hybrid, uses both.

572
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,280
I want his righteousness for most of it.

573
00:32:04,580 --> 00:32:06,570
But I also want to give
you something that I do.

574
00:32:06,621 --> 00:32:07,611
I want some credit.

575
00:32:07,611 --> 00:32:11,721
And Paul saying, I need a righteousness
that's totally from you, A

576
00:32:11,721 --> 00:32:14,001
righteousness that comes from God.

577
00:32:14,028 --> 00:32:15,018
so back to Ephesians.

578
00:32:15,018 --> 00:32:15,558
We're almost done.

579
00:32:15,558 --> 00:32:17,418
I've got one more story.

580
00:32:17,470 --> 00:32:19,390
one more section of scripture
and then we'll be wrapped up.

581
00:32:19,390 --> 00:32:23,565
but in Ephesians four, we can often
find out what Paul's talking about.

582
00:32:23,625 --> 00:32:26,212
It helps us, as you study
scripture, what does that word,

583
00:32:26,212 --> 00:32:29,555
righteousness mean by seeing how
he's used it already in his letter.

584
00:32:29,555 --> 00:32:32,371
Ephesians four, verse 24,

585
00:32:36,931 --> 00:32:46,041
and to put on the new self created
after the likeness of God in

586
00:32:46,041 --> 00:32:48,481
true righteousness in holiness.

587
00:32:49,891 --> 00:32:53,311
So he's saying he's using the same
imagery of putting on right, and

588
00:32:53,561 --> 00:32:58,921
he's saying, put on the Lord Jesus,
put on Jesus all through Ephesians.

589
00:32:58,926 --> 00:33:02,101
He's saying this and he's saying
that true righteousness is the

590
00:33:02,101 --> 00:33:03,571
righteousness that Jesus is one.

591
00:33:03,571 --> 00:33:05,251
You're putting on true righteousness.

592
00:33:05,322 --> 00:33:09,552
not a hybrid righteousness, not
a 99% righteousness, but a true

593
00:33:09,552 --> 00:33:13,842
righteousness that is from Jesus himself.

594
00:33:13,957 --> 00:33:18,397
and so we dig into the term
righteousness a little more.

595
00:33:18,577 --> 00:33:21,907
It means the state of him is he
ought to be the condition acceptable

596
00:33:21,907 --> 00:33:27,607
to God, to be approved by him, to
be straight or to pass inspection,

597
00:33:28,327 --> 00:33:34,807
to be and to live up, to speck, to
relational, be right with someone, to

598
00:33:34,812 --> 00:33:37,177
have nothing in between, to be present.

599
00:33:38,377 --> 00:33:41,857
I have passed inspection in the
eyes of significant other, I have

600
00:33:41,857 --> 00:33:46,417
been found pleasing in the eyes of
someone I want to please to stand

601
00:33:46,417 --> 00:33:50,437
before the one we long to be approved
by and hear him say, I approve you.

602
00:33:50,437 --> 00:33:51,187
I love you.

603
00:33:51,187 --> 00:33:52,087
I accept you.

604
00:33:52,267 --> 00:33:53,497
Well done.

605
00:33:54,427 --> 00:33:55,357
That's what righteousness means.

606
00:33:55,507 --> 00:34:00,637
That's the righteousness that comes
from without the imputed righteousness

607
00:34:00,947 --> 00:34:08,197
that we're to take up as a breast
plate to cover our parts or our bowels.

608
00:34:08,224 --> 00:34:10,266
romantic comedies are interesting, right?

609
00:34:10,272 --> 00:34:13,204
They follow a very set
pattern, in the genre.

610
00:34:13,414 --> 00:34:16,774
It's two people have a meat fte, right?

611
00:34:17,043 --> 00:34:22,221
People who would never get along and they
hit it off somehow and, they fall in love.

612
00:34:22,221 --> 00:34:27,409
But then somebody has a deep, dark secret
and, that secret comes out and then

613
00:34:27,409 --> 00:34:31,190
it looks like they're gonna be apart
and this thing isn't gonna work out.

614
00:34:31,670 --> 00:34:36,710
And then they show up creepily and they
hold a sign out in front of the house, or

615
00:34:36,710 --> 00:34:42,800
a boom box, or they stop an airplane from
taking off, or a million other things.

616
00:34:42,804 --> 00:34:46,909
The whole Lifetime channel has
literally made their money.

617
00:34:47,179 --> 00:34:51,170
Do you know, they produce over
60 movies every Christmas that

618
00:34:51,170 --> 00:34:53,060
are all like romantic comedies.

619
00:34:53,300 --> 00:34:54,507
It's this time it's a nurse.

620
00:34:54,507 --> 00:34:55,678
This time it's a doctor.

621
00:34:55,683 --> 00:34:58,095
This time, it's a one-armed nurse.

622
00:34:58,140 --> 00:35:01,347
it's like they the same
formula over and over, and.

623
00:35:02,112 --> 00:35:08,112
Why, but it so hits us
because that's our story.

624
00:35:08,372 --> 00:35:08,842
Yeah.

625
00:35:08,842 --> 00:35:10,384
it's one thing to be approved by people.

626
00:35:10,389 --> 00:35:12,444
We don't care whether
they approve us or not.

627
00:35:13,794 --> 00:35:19,344
We all have this circle that we deem is
important and we're like, if they told

628
00:35:19,344 --> 00:35:26,574
me I was worth it, then my life would be
full of meaning if I, if they told me.

629
00:35:26,574 --> 00:35:30,054
And we're constantly, a lot of us are
trying to get into that circle and

630
00:35:30,054 --> 00:35:35,064
trying to perform to hear well done
that good and faithful servants, you're

631
00:35:35,064 --> 00:35:38,124
approved, you're loved, I see potential.

632
00:35:38,124 --> 00:35:43,802
I see this in you, it doesn't matter
so often, the circle of our friends or

633
00:35:43,839 --> 00:35:45,811
the ones who could encourage us, Yeah.

634
00:35:45,811 --> 00:35:47,311
You just say that cuz you're my mom.

635
00:35:47,378 --> 00:35:49,310
but we want to have that.

636
00:35:50,780 --> 00:35:51,530
But as we

637
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:59,360
grow in this relationship,
we suspect what we found out.

638
00:36:02,150 --> 00:36:11,300
Maybe we've fudged the numbers,
maybe we haven't graduated from that

639
00:36:11,510 --> 00:36:17,096
place and I told him I'm dead or
maybe I, not as smart as I come off.

640
00:36:17,801 --> 00:36:21,521
, maybe I'm going to be found
out as the fake and the fraud.

641
00:36:22,691 --> 00:36:26,651
And then that, which I long for that,
which will make me call there saying, Hey,

642
00:36:26,651 --> 00:36:29,051
you belong in this circle, I'll lose it.

643
00:36:31,931 --> 00:36:34,931
And so we react to those stories
that, that formula in such

644
00:36:34,931 --> 00:36:37,088
a powerful, fundamental way.

645
00:36:37,568 --> 00:36:41,708
Because deep down we believe
you can either be loved and not

646
00:36:41,708 --> 00:36:44,228
known or not known and loved.

647
00:36:45,788 --> 00:36:49,238
See if you're loved, then they
can't know you, who you really are.

648
00:36:49,868 --> 00:36:51,068
Think about your first date.

649
00:36:51,098 --> 00:36:53,652
If you ever went on a date with
somebody, the number one thing

650
00:36:53,652 --> 00:36:55,782
you do is you hide all your flaws.

651
00:36:55,912 --> 00:36:59,392
you roll up, you borrow somebody
else's car because you don't want

652
00:36:59,392 --> 00:37:02,272
to take the brown Bull , right?

653
00:37:02,962 --> 00:37:05,174
And you wear clothes
you've never worn before.

654
00:37:05,250 --> 00:37:10,351
you put Old Spice on and old Spice that's
only been on your armpits thus far, and

655
00:37:10,351 --> 00:37:14,755
you don't come out and you don't say,
oh yeah, I did this, I failed here.

656
00:37:14,779 --> 00:37:18,102
I got in trouble with a lot at this
point in my life and this, and this.

657
00:37:18,102 --> 00:37:18,732
How are you?

658
00:37:18,762 --> 00:37:20,032
Tell me about yourself.

659
00:37:20,032 --> 00:37:23,958
it's more, you're ordering wine
with a French accent, and just doing

660
00:37:23,958 --> 00:37:25,078
something and you're gonna salad too.

661
00:37:25,138 --> 00:37:25,798
Yes, exactly.

662
00:37:25,798 --> 00:37:26,158
You salad?

663
00:37:26,248 --> 00:37:26,488
Yeah.

664
00:37:26,493 --> 00:37:27,508
Oh, this is so good.

665
00:37:27,778 --> 00:37:28,078
Yeah.

666
00:37:28,318 --> 00:37:28,408
You.

667
00:37:29,668 --> 00:37:31,138
, how do you feel about animals?

668
00:37:31,142 --> 00:37:33,848
you're asking them, feeling 'em out.

669
00:37:33,916 --> 00:37:34,576
are you a vegan?

670
00:37:34,696 --> 00:37:35,116
Yeah.

671
00:37:35,776 --> 00:37:38,391
You're like, I like a medium
rare, but I'm a vegan.

672
00:37:38,391 --> 00:37:39,241
And you're like, oh yeah.

673
00:37:39,301 --> 00:37:40,351
Real medium rare.

674
00:37:40,351 --> 00:37:41,551
Like, where we don't even feel 'em.

675
00:37:41,551 --> 00:37:43,911
Don't put it on the place . Exactly.

676
00:37:44,851 --> 00:37:48,241
And so there's that, there's
this dance we go through.

677
00:37:48,271 --> 00:37:48,481
Yes.

678
00:37:48,541 --> 00:37:49,891
In any relationship.

679
00:37:49,891 --> 00:37:50,971
And there's a fear.

680
00:37:51,931 --> 00:37:54,527
Unless you're Andrea, she's
pretty just, here I am.

681
00:37:54,527 --> 00:37:59,099
but for me, I always would ask her,
am I like a piece of gum to you?

682
00:37:59,759 --> 00:38:00,479
You're gonna chew me.

683
00:38:00,484 --> 00:38:03,689
It's flavorful fun, but then you're
gonna get tired of me and spit me out.

684
00:38:03,689 --> 00:38:07,092
You're gonna, you're gonna see what
my substance is, or lack of it.

685
00:38:07,126 --> 00:38:09,106
and we can bring this into
our relationship with God.

686
00:38:09,111 --> 00:38:10,426
Man, you're born again.

687
00:38:10,966 --> 00:38:12,046
You're new.

688
00:38:12,346 --> 00:38:13,876
There's color in the universe.

689
00:38:13,876 --> 00:38:17,566
You hear the birds for the first time,
you thinking about creation and sunset

690
00:38:17,566 --> 00:38:21,256
and sunrises, and you're just like,
that's the coolest thing I've ever seen.

691
00:38:23,866 --> 00:38:28,936
And then you fail, you yell at
your wife, get upset at your kids.

692
00:38:31,096 --> 00:38:31,786
Where's the power?

693
00:38:42,076 --> 00:38:44,836
And so then you rededicate
a previous rededication from

694
00:38:44,841 --> 00:38:46,096
our previous rededication.

695
00:38:50,086 --> 00:38:55,666
And you're like, start to try things
like, oh, maybe it's, I didn't pray right?

696
00:38:56,836 --> 00:38:59,296
Maybe I'm not really
saved,  I need a reboot.

697
00:38:59,296 --> 00:39:01,276
Maybe I need this, maybe I need that.

698
00:39:01,276 --> 00:39:09,016
Maybe what we're do is we try to
cover ourselves because we treat

699
00:39:09,016 --> 00:39:10,576
God the same way we treat people.

700
00:39:10,581 --> 00:39:18,886
If he sees me for who I really am, that
he's going to say, ah, that's too far,

701
00:39:19,366 --> 00:39:20,866
that's too far from my grace to go.

702
00:39:22,426 --> 00:39:25,426
And nothing could be
further from the truth.

703
00:39:25,426 --> 00:39:26,866
Zach, Chapter three, and I close,

704
00:39:33,616 --> 00:39:36,897
you of see how like important
breast play of righteousness is

705
00:39:40,167 --> 00:39:44,217
as it's been said when Satan
talks to you about God.

706
00:39:44,245 --> 00:39:45,260
, he lies the whole time.

707
00:39:45,410 --> 00:39:45,620
Yeah.

708
00:39:48,620 --> 00:39:52,520
When Saint talks about you
too, God, he tells the truth.

709
00:39:52,577 --> 00:39:53,401
He's look at them.

710
00:39:53,401 --> 00:39:56,441
They failed chapter.

711
00:39:58,431 --> 00:39:59,841
This is awesome.

712
00:40:04,551 --> 00:40:06,226
I like, I like this story a lot.

713
00:40:06,286 --> 00:40:06,946
Oh yeah.

714
00:40:10,186 --> 00:40:13,036
This is 75 years before Nehemiah
built rebuilds The wall.

715
00:40:14,266 --> 00:40:19,347
50,000 Jews came back from Babylon
to Jerusalem, to rebuild the temple.

716
00:40:21,657 --> 00:40:23,847
The first thing they do before
they rebuild the walls is they

717
00:40:23,852 --> 00:40:25,527
say, we need the temple rebuild.

718
00:40:25,527 --> 00:40:27,867
And they rebuild the temple,
and they get to going, but the

719
00:40:27,867 --> 00:40:30,657
people get tired and discouraged
and stop rebuilding the temple.

720
00:40:30,687 --> 00:40:32,127
It's so similar to Diah.

721
00:40:32,127 --> 00:40:32,907
They're discouraged.

722
00:40:32,937 --> 00:40:34,407
It seems like the task is too great.

723
00:40:34,407 --> 00:40:36,897
Remember, it's always
fun to start a project.

724
00:40:36,897 --> 00:40:38,697
It's always fun to end a project.

725
00:40:38,907 --> 00:40:40,677
It sucks in the middle of the project.

726
00:40:41,307 --> 00:40:44,247
You want to give up, you want
to, we're not going anywhere.

727
00:40:44,247 --> 00:40:45,867
We're not making any progress.

728
00:40:46,557 --> 00:40:49,017
In fact, the story of Nehemiah,
I love it so much because

729
00:40:49,017 --> 00:40:50,457
there's all this conflict in it.

730
00:40:50,462 --> 00:40:53,037
They're in the middle of the project
and there's all this warfare, and

731
00:40:53,037 --> 00:40:56,517
then there's one verse that says,
oh, we completed the wall in 52

732
00:40:56,522 --> 00:40:59,067
days, you're what just happened?

733
00:40:59,096 --> 00:41:04,661
bam, and it can be like that so often,
but so similar to Nehemiah Haggai and

734
00:41:04,661 --> 00:41:08,451
Zacharia calling the people to repent of
their discouragement call into action.

735
00:41:09,051 --> 00:41:12,891
And in five years the temple's
finished being rebuilt as they

736
00:41:12,891 --> 00:41:14,001
talk about worshiping God.

737
00:41:14,001 --> 00:41:16,971
Again, the people with Israel are
not the same people they were.

738
00:41:18,501 --> 00:41:23,331
They're very broken from being
in captivity, disheartened, most

739
00:41:23,331 --> 00:41:24,861
of their families stand that one.

740
00:41:26,841 --> 00:41:29,421
It's only the smallest
remnant of people who go back.

741
00:41:29,931 --> 00:41:32,601
Most of them get assimilated into that.

742
00:41:35,166 --> 00:41:37,566
And into that context
and say, no, we're good.

743
00:41:40,596 --> 00:41:44,286
It would be like Moses telling the
Israelites it's time to flee Egypt.

744
00:41:44,291 --> 00:41:47,076
And 90% of what I'm
saying, no, we're good.

745
00:41:48,426 --> 00:41:48,726
We're good.

746
00:41:48,756 --> 00:41:49,866
We're good with our captors, we're good.

747
00:41:49,871 --> 00:41:51,126
Throwing our babies in the denial.

748
00:41:54,456 --> 00:41:55,356
We're good in captivity.

749
00:41:57,546 --> 00:41:58,506
So that's discouraging.

750
00:42:00,066 --> 00:42:01,116
You feel like, what are we doing?

751
00:42:01,836 --> 00:42:04,866
You feel like Elijah, who
says, I'm the only one God.

752
00:42:04,921 --> 00:42:05,879
, that's you're not.

753
00:42:06,639 --> 00:42:10,569
I have a remnant who has
a, but they're discouraged.

754
00:42:11,229 --> 00:42:13,329
Most of lights, I stay in Babylon walls.

755
00:42:13,405 --> 00:42:14,305
none of them come back.

756
00:42:14,305 --> 00:42:18,505
And the thing very foremost in their
minds was, how can God accept such

757
00:42:18,505 --> 00:42:22,675
a broken people and receive such
a broken people and receive such

758
00:42:22,675 --> 00:42:24,385
a worship from a broken people?

759
00:42:25,075 --> 00:42:25,345
Sure.

760
00:42:25,345 --> 00:42:28,015
When we're doing good, God accepts us.

761
00:42:28,915 --> 00:42:34,135
So God gave Zacharia vision
of Joshua, the high priest.

762
00:42:35,125 --> 00:42:39,865
Very interesting scene of what goes
on before the throne room of God.

763
00:42:40,225 --> 00:42:40,495
Alright.

764
00:42:40,735 --> 00:42:46,448
We get this vision that Zacharia sees and
he writes about Joshua, the high priest.

765
00:42:46,748 --> 00:42:47,258
Here we go.

766
00:42:49,118 --> 00:42:52,838
And remember, they're feeling
not just guilt over what they've

767
00:42:52,838 --> 00:42:55,478
done, they've been exiled the
battle on for their disobedience.

768
00:42:56,273 --> 00:43:01,703
but shame too over not having a place
anymore about not having their roots,

769
00:43:01,703 --> 00:43:07,703
about not having their families
with them like they're broken.

770
00:43:08,483 --> 00:43:10,613
So it opens in a dire situation.

771
00:43:10,643 --> 00:43:13,763
First one, then he showed me,
Joshua with a high priest standing

772
00:43:13,763 --> 00:43:15,413
before the angel of the Lord.

773
00:43:15,833 --> 00:43:20,153
And Satan, whose name means accuser,
standing at the right hand to accuse him.

774
00:43:21,683 --> 00:43:27,773
And the Lord said to say The Lord
rebuked youo Satan, the Lord who

775
00:43:27,773 --> 00:43:29,753
has chosen Jerusalem, rebuked you.

776
00:43:31,373 --> 00:43:35,303
And I love this description of
the reality of their situation.

777
00:43:36,023 --> 00:43:37,883
Cuz God knows, God doesn't put spin on it.

778
00:43:38,123 --> 00:43:39,170
He's not, he's not no.

779
00:43:39,260 --> 00:43:40,430
Talk more positive.

780
00:43:40,567 --> 00:43:41,227
Here's what he says.

781
00:43:41,227 --> 00:43:45,247
He says, is this not a
brand plucked from the fire?

782
00:43:46,717 --> 00:43:46,927
Yeah.

783
00:43:46,927 --> 00:43:48,517
They're more ash than substance.

784
00:43:50,317 --> 00:43:50,987
It's more chaff.

785
00:43:53,407 --> 00:43:57,547
Now, Joshua was standing before the
angel clothed with filthy garments.

786
00:43:57,552 --> 00:44:01,908
And that's why is if you're hearing
the story, that's cool, okay.

787
00:44:01,913 --> 00:44:05,808
The enemy's accusing him, but the
Lord's like the Lord rebuke you,

788
00:44:05,808 --> 00:44:08,118
shutting the enemy in that accuser down.

789
00:44:08,628 --> 00:44:10,708
He's yeah, they're in a bad way.

790
00:44:11,728 --> 00:44:14,278
But Joshua, the high priest
representative, heard the priest,

791
00:44:14,278 --> 00:44:18,838
the high priest was the one who
represented them before God once a year.

792
00:44:19,648 --> 00:44:21,328
The one makes sacrifice on the day of the.

793
00:44:22,678 --> 00:44:24,808
To cover the people's sins.

794
00:44:25,168 --> 00:44:29,938
So there, remember, he had to be pure,
he had to be without spotting and bluish.

795
00:44:29,938 --> 00:44:32,578
He had to do sacrifices for himself.

796
00:44:33,298 --> 00:44:36,028
Otherwise, going into the
holy of Holies, he'd be struck

797
00:44:36,028 --> 00:44:37,318
down in the holiness of God.

798
00:44:37,678 --> 00:44:40,871
Remember, they would, he'd wear,
bells on the fringes, his garment,

799
00:44:40,871 --> 00:44:43,781
then tie a rope around cause they
couldn't go and get him if he died.

800
00:44:44,801 --> 00:44:46,961
Man, that is an intense job description.

801
00:44:46,991 --> 00:44:48,521
Really, , right?

802
00:44:49,451 --> 00:44:51,871
Who, go in, hopefully you're good.

803
00:44:53,941 --> 00:44:56,401
the mountains and the trees and the rocks.

804
00:44:56,401 --> 00:45:01,228
Trimble before the presence of Lord,
hopefully you're good, full time.

805
00:45:01,252 --> 00:45:03,412
and then the people's heart
to sink because here's their

806
00:45:03,412 --> 00:45:06,052
representative, filthy.

807
00:45:07,012 --> 00:45:07,642
He can't go away.

808
00:45:11,422 --> 00:45:14,902
And he is in the sense their
representative, cuz there's,

809
00:45:14,962 --> 00:45:15,892
they're filthy as well.

810
00:45:16,632 --> 00:45:19,252
Joshua, I, a priest represents
the people before God.

811
00:45:19,252 --> 00:45:23,760
Perhaps he was being accused, for what
Zacharia, if you read Zacharia one, two

812
00:45:24,090 --> 00:45:28,081
is talking about, and the enemy accuses
him and says, what's wrong with this?

813
00:45:28,086 --> 00:45:34,750
People, you've even sent them a prophet
to tell them what's wrong about their sin.

814
00:45:35,980 --> 00:45:39,490
This is a prophet who's
writing this filthy clothes.

815
00:45:39,495 --> 00:45:44,425
The idea again, is, Covered Isaiah 64 6.

816
00:45:44,425 --> 00:45:46,135
Our righteousness is a filthy rag.

817
00:45:49,255 --> 00:45:51,295
It means menstrual rags, right?

818
00:45:51,925 --> 00:45:52,345
It does.

819
00:45:52,435 --> 00:45:55,345
It's the rags that women would use
when they're on their period and

820
00:45:55,350 --> 00:45:56,635
then they would get rid of them.

821
00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:02,515
And he's saying, your best
before my wholeness is this.

822
00:46:04,915 --> 00:46:06,715
God doesn't have a high
view of our righteousness.

823
00:46:09,595 --> 00:46:12,805
If there was any hope and holiness
to be found in this remnant of the

824
00:46:12,810 --> 00:46:14,545
people, it would be the high priest.

825
00:46:15,115 --> 00:46:21,324
Our representative, the enemy, the he
will lie to us about God,  but to God.

826
00:46:21,324 --> 00:46:23,574
He will always tell the
truth when he talks about us.

827
00:46:23,934 --> 00:46:25,494
And I love God doesn't play it down.

828
00:46:26,934 --> 00:46:29,334
He doesn't pretend that it didn't exist.

829
00:46:33,744 --> 00:46:39,055
Satan adversary, prosecutor in job and
in Revelation, 1210, it says, I heard a

830
00:46:39,055 --> 00:46:43,285
voice, a loud voice in heaven saying now
the salvation and the power of the kingdom

831
00:46:43,290 --> 00:46:47,665
of our God and the authority of his Christ
have come for the accuser of the brethren.

832
00:46:47,935 --> 00:46:49,585
Brothers has been thrown down.

833
00:46:49,585 --> 00:46:56,875
Who accuses them day and night before
our God, day and night accusing the

834
00:46:56,875 --> 00:47:01,126
prosecutor has really good evidence,
. Sometimes when trouble and trials

835
00:47:01,126 --> 00:47:04,666
happen, he says, God is punishing you.

836
00:47:05,776 --> 00:47:07,126
And you deserve this punishment.

837
00:47:07,396 --> 00:47:09,076
You know your story,
you know your history.

838
00:47:10,396 --> 00:47:17,596
If you were really repentant, you wouldn't
keep doing the same thing discouragement.

839
00:47:18,616 --> 00:47:24,106
Sometimes he comes as you are trying
to tell somebody else about Jesus.

840
00:47:24,646 --> 00:47:27,976
If they only knew what you were like,
you have no right to speak for Jesus,

841
00:47:27,976 --> 00:47:30,046
he'll say, keep your mouth shut.

842
00:47:30,046 --> 00:47:31,846
What a poor excuse you are.

843
00:47:32,116 --> 00:47:33,136
Keep your mouth shut.

844
00:47:34,276 --> 00:47:35,746
Pray you're gonna pray.

845
00:47:36,046 --> 00:47:37,726
You don't deserve to have
your prayer answered.

846
00:47:37,726 --> 00:47:39,106
Why should God listen to you,

847
00:47:42,616 --> 00:47:43,996
the heart and how we fail?

848
00:47:43,996 --> 00:47:47,026
He says, look at what you have
done falling over and over.

849
00:47:47,026 --> 00:47:50,326
If you're a real Christian, you wouldn't
struggle like this crazy temptation.

850
00:47:50,326 --> 00:47:52,906
If you were really saved, you
wouldn't have these thoughts.

851
00:47:55,456 --> 00:47:59,146
And often our own conscious conscience
jumps in as a key witnesses.

852
00:47:59,207 --> 00:48:02,322
that's why Paul says in First
Corinthians, he's I don't even

853
00:48:02,322 --> 00:48:04,032
let my own conscience judge me.

854
00:48:04,032 --> 00:48:06,795
I'll let the Lord who sees
everything judge me on that day.

855
00:48:06,845 --> 00:48:10,815
but if we read in first John that God
is greater than our hearts, hallelujah.

856
00:48:11,915 --> 00:48:13,255
God knows what he's choosing.

857
00:48:13,365 --> 00:48:15,335
It's no surprise to God who we are.

858
00:48:15,815 --> 00:48:17,465
I know exactly who he's choosing.

859
00:48:17,465 --> 00:48:19,295
He says, I know their flaws.

860
00:48:19,475 --> 00:48:20,315
I picked them.

861
00:48:20,465 --> 00:48:21,365
I chose them.

862
00:48:21,425 --> 00:48:23,885
I adopted them before the
foundation of the world.

863
00:48:24,185 --> 00:48:25,235
I knew their name.

864
00:48:25,235 --> 00:48:27,215
I know the number of hairs
that are on their head.

865
00:48:27,485 --> 00:48:30,185
I have ordained the times and
the places they should live.

866
00:48:30,515 --> 00:48:33,155
If they were not broken in
Mard, then I wouldn't have come

867
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:34,715
to rescue and to heal them.

868
00:48:35,495 --> 00:48:40,145
He says, enemy, I don't
expect any different.

869
00:48:53,855 --> 00:48:54,381
He's not,

870
00:48:54,431 --> 00:48:55,521
begrudging you.

871
00:48:56,491 --> 00:48:57,661
Okay, let's clean you up.

872
00:48:57,661 --> 00:48:58,711
Let's make you presentable.

873
00:49:02,761 --> 00:49:03,481
He runs to you

874
00:49:07,231 --> 00:49:11,101
because even what you get out
your whole rehearsed speech.

875
00:49:13,636 --> 00:49:14,176
I love it.

876
00:49:16,816 --> 00:49:19,036
He says, wear this.

877
00:49:21,036 --> 00:49:22,126
I'll discover you.

878
00:49:25,006 --> 00:49:27,646
Let's good squeeze.

879
00:49:31,216 --> 00:49:32,926
He says, this is who I came for.

880
00:49:34,736 --> 00:49:38,146
He loves to save a beat after of ourself.

881
00:49:41,296 --> 00:49:47,086
It gave God, as Ephesians one
said, great pleasure to save,

882
00:49:48,916 --> 00:49:50,326
to choose you, to adopt you.

883
00:49:52,406 --> 00:49:55,336
You verse four and five, and the angel
said to those who were standing before

884
00:49:55,336 --> 00:49:56,866
and removed the filthy garments from him.

885
00:49:56,866 --> 00:49:59,476
And he said to him, behold, I have
taken your iniquity away from you,

886
00:49:59,476 --> 00:50:01,426
and I'll clothe you with pure vess.

887
00:50:01,756 --> 00:50:04,156
And I said, let them put a
clean turbine on his head.

888
00:50:04,156 --> 00:50:06,976
So they put a clean turbine on his
head and clothe him with garments.

889
00:50:07,276 --> 00:50:09,196
And the angel of the Lord was standing by.

890
00:50:09,196 --> 00:50:14,626
He doesn't say, you have removed your
iniquity or have had any part of it.

891
00:50:14,716 --> 00:50:17,236
He says, I have removed it.

892
00:50:17,266 --> 00:50:20,146
This isn't about what Joshua
the high priest has done.

893
00:50:20,416 --> 00:50:25,516
This is purely about what Jehovah
my righteousness has done.

894
00:50:25,936 --> 00:50:27,226
This is about what God has done.

895
00:50:27,226 --> 00:50:30,166
He doesn't say, Joshua
removed your iniquity.

896
00:50:30,616 --> 00:50:34,570
He says, I have removed his ni IQuity.

897
00:50:35,140 --> 00:50:38,260
He doesn't just leave him naked,
but covers him from head to toe.

898
00:50:38,890 --> 00:50:40,300
He doesn't just take the filthy.

899
00:50:41,140 --> 00:50:43,780
Off and put them off somewhere.

900
00:50:43,780 --> 00:50:47,380
He doesn't sweep them under the rug,
but he saves them for a special day.

901
00:50:47,380 --> 00:50:48,610
And you have to understand this.

902
00:50:48,610 --> 00:50:54,130
So this is why it's so powerful is
because God is holy and he has to

903
00:50:54,135 --> 00:50:57,640
make a payment for the debt of sin.

904
00:50:58,270 --> 00:51:02,800
There has to be a price that's
paid, otherwise it would be unjust.

905
00:51:02,890 --> 00:51:05,050
And God cannot be unjust.

906
00:51:05,050 --> 00:51:05,710
He's holy.

907
00:51:05,830 --> 00:51:07,600
He's consistent with this nature.

908
00:51:07,810 --> 00:51:10,600
So as much as he could say,
let there be light, he couldn't

909
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:12,130
say, let there be forgiveness.

910
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,490
He couldn't sweep it under the rug
and say, oh, let's all just get along.

911
00:51:15,790 --> 00:51:20,350
Think about if somebody did something
horrific to your daughter or your

912
00:51:20,355 --> 00:51:23,878
son and you are in the court of the
law and the judge is you know what?

913
00:51:23,878 --> 00:51:27,868
I ate a great breakfast today, but
I'm just gonna let this guy off.

914
00:51:27,928 --> 00:51:30,268
We would turn over to the
tables in the courtroom.

915
00:51:30,273 --> 00:51:31,888
We say We demand justice.

916
00:51:31,918 --> 00:51:34,648
We demand an answer to the wrong.

917
00:51:34,978 --> 00:51:36,748
And God is greater than that.

918
00:51:36,748 --> 00:51:38,248
His holiness is greater than that.

919
00:51:38,248 --> 00:51:41,488
He is justice itself and to be
consistent with his character.

920
00:51:41,488 --> 00:51:45,568
He can't take Joshua's garments off
and place them somewhere and just

921
00:51:45,568 --> 00:51:47,068
pretend like they didn't happen.

922
00:51:47,068 --> 00:51:52,288
He reserves them for a special day, and
that day was good Friday on the cross of

923
00:51:52,288 --> 00:51:57,418
Jesus Christ, when Jesus said, I'll wear
the garments and I'll take the wrath.

924
00:51:57,448 --> 00:52:00,508
You, I'll take the justice
that they deserved so that

925
00:52:00,508 --> 00:52:05,998
they can wear my perfection,
my obedience, my righteousness.

926
00:52:07,648 --> 00:52:09,088
He provided a righteousness.

927
00:52:11,503 --> 00:52:14,233
You hold the lamb of God that
takes away the sin of the world.

928
00:52:14,233 --> 00:52:19,307
The unblemished Lamb pilot said of
him, I find no fault in him, and

929
00:52:19,307 --> 00:52:24,107
one of the amazing things about the
doctrine of imputed righteousness

930
00:52:24,137 --> 00:52:29,207
and doctrine should always lead to
doxology or worship, if it's good,

931
00:52:33,197 --> 00:52:37,877
is that Jesus did His didn't come
and give you a clean slate, and

932
00:52:37,882 --> 00:52:39,527
now you keep up that clean slate.

933
00:52:42,587 --> 00:52:44,757
He gave you a whole record
from beginning to end.

934
00:52:45,617 --> 00:52:47,807
you guys have to think out
the implications of that.

935
00:52:47,807 --> 00:52:49,757
That's crazy.

936
00:52:49,762 --> 00:52:52,270
That means that's why there's,
therefore now no condemnations.

937
00:52:52,275 --> 00:52:52,780
Those are pres.

938
00:52:52,990 --> 00:52:53,890
It's evaporated.

939
00:52:53,890 --> 00:52:54,335
It's gone.

940
00:52:54,336 --> 00:52:56,166
. That's why God is greater than our hearts.

941
00:52:56,196 --> 00:52:56,286
Yes.

942
00:52:56,586 --> 00:53:02,356
That's why the way the
father relates to us

943
00:53:07,716 --> 00:53:08,406
is with the same.

944
00:53:12,366 --> 00:53:13,446
The same excitement,

945
00:53:16,746 --> 00:53:23,166
the same exaggerated display of
love that he has for the son.

946
00:53:26,466 --> 00:53:30,336
So what's beautiful about wearing
the breastplate of righteousness

947
00:53:33,846 --> 00:53:36,516
is it says that the father, the
god of God's, the end cause.

948
00:53:36,516 --> 00:53:41,316
Cause the alpha, the omega, the beginning
of the end adores you and treats you as

949
00:53:41,316 --> 00:53:43,566
if you've obeyed like Christ himself.

950
00:53:47,436 --> 00:53:51,066
That he doesn't treat you daily and
say, oh, he, you've been in obey today.

951
00:53:51,066 --> 00:53:54,036
So I'm gonna, I used to think
that I didn't do my devotions

952
00:53:54,041 --> 00:53:55,176
and so that's why my day is hard.

953
00:53:56,106 --> 00:53:56,989
That is religion.

954
00:53:56,989 --> 00:54:01,016
if you let that sink in, if that
goes to the heart, if that enters

955
00:54:01,016 --> 00:54:05,606
into the being of your soul,
that you have a righteousness

956
00:54:05,606 --> 00:54:07,046
that didn't come from your own.

957
00:54:07,391 --> 00:54:11,869
and that you are delighted in
adored, celebrated sang about

958
00:54:11,917 --> 00:54:14,377
held up as a trophy of grace.

959
00:54:14,497 --> 00:54:16,417
Like nothing but good.

960
00:54:16,417 --> 00:54:19,568
I know the thoughts, I think to you,
towards you, like they're more a

961
00:54:19,568 --> 00:54:21,758
number than all the stands of the sea.

962
00:54:21,836 --> 00:54:23,846
like everything he thinks to you.

963
00:54:23,846 --> 00:54:25,136
Somebody wants to try to figure that out.

964
00:54:25,136 --> 00:54:27,518
It's 192,000 thoughts a second.

965
00:54:27,561 --> 00:54:29,804
he holds you up and it's good.

966
00:54:30,014 --> 00:54:32,474
It's delight, it's celebration.

967
00:54:32,561 --> 00:54:37,541
it's crazy to know that
like you are secure.

968
00:54:37,546 --> 00:54:39,821
That's why he says stand in that day.

969
00:54:39,821 --> 00:54:40,151
Yes.

970
00:54:40,180 --> 00:54:43,672
maybe accuser roar that I've done,
I know them all in thousands more.

971
00:54:43,672 --> 00:54:45,322
My savior know with none.

972
00:54:45,742 --> 00:54:46,852
Like I know.

973
00:54:46,852 --> 00:54:50,242
Yes, but Christ in his righteousness.

974
00:54:50,242 --> 00:54:55,012
That's why they say on that day, when
if the question was it's theoretical,

975
00:54:55,017 --> 00:54:56,722
why should I let you into my heaven?

976
00:54:57,172 --> 00:55:00,592
You don't say I, because I accepted
Jesus, or because I prayed the

977
00:55:00,592 --> 00:55:02,302
prayer, because I rose my hand.

978
00:55:02,302 --> 00:55:02,932
I went forward.

979
00:55:02,932 --> 00:55:03,502
I got baptiz.

980
00:55:03,682 --> 00:55:06,112
You say, because Christ still alone, hall.

981
00:55:06,112 --> 00:55:06,832
That's it all.

982
00:55:06,837 --> 00:55:11,692
All I have is Christ, all my strength
is Christ, all that I am, Ms.

983
00:55:11,692 --> 00:55:11,842
Christ.

984
00:55:11,992 --> 00:55:15,292
And what happens is that sinks
in like Paul the Apostle.

985
00:55:15,292 --> 00:55:17,932
He says, man, that gospel is a power.

986
00:55:18,142 --> 00:55:18,412
Yes.

987
00:55:18,412 --> 00:55:22,357
And all of a sudden, There's
like a response in you like

988
00:55:22,357 --> 00:55:24,277
light showing on a mirror.

989
00:55:24,517 --> 00:55:24,907
A mirror's.

990
00:55:24,938 --> 00:55:27,566
not I don't know if I
should reflect this or not.

991
00:55:27,577 --> 00:55:30,193
is this, let me parse the light particle.

992
00:55:30,223 --> 00:55:34,813
It's like I have to, and so our
righteousness comes from his

993
00:55:34,813 --> 00:55:38,503
righteousness, like our obedience
flows because he was obedient to the

994
00:55:38,503 --> 00:55:42,583
father on our behalf, and we have an
invincible obedience laid to our account.

995
00:55:42,583 --> 00:55:45,823
That's the thing about the purity
seminars is they're so often saying

996
00:55:45,828 --> 00:55:49,453
present to Gotti purity that he'll
accept when the kids need to hear.

997
00:55:49,573 --> 00:55:53,443
You have an invincible purity
that can't be marred, that can't

998
00:55:53,443 --> 00:55:55,183
be shaken, that can't be moved.

999
00:55:55,188 --> 00:55:58,093
It's invincible, it's incorruptible.

1000
00:55:58,153 --> 00:56:01,153
It's been bought and purchased
with the blood of Christ himself.

1001
00:56:01,303 --> 00:56:05,233
His actions have proven that it is pure.

1002
00:56:05,323 --> 00:56:05,473
Yeah.

1003
00:56:05,743 --> 00:56:10,033
And, man, if we started telling
our kids the good news, yes.

1004
00:56:10,213 --> 00:56:10,483
Yeah.

1005
00:56:10,573 --> 00:56:13,967
Instead of the good news with the claws.

1006
00:56:13,967 --> 00:56:15,017
That's like now you,

1007
00:56:19,577 --> 00:56:21,497
but we're too often fearful that

1008
00:56:27,157 --> 00:56:27,977
that grace doesn't

1009
00:56:34,127 --> 00:56:34,967
and it changes everything.

1010
00:56:38,177 --> 00:56:42,527
If you like Dyna High, I'll go off.

1011
00:56:44,117 --> 00:56:45,047
It's not a diamond.

1012
00:56:46,037 --> 00:56:48,017
, it will shape and change things.

1013
00:56:48,067 --> 00:56:55,897
So I would say if you are
battling and you have two options,

1014
00:56:55,927 --> 00:56:56,977
you're at the fork in the road.

1015
00:56:56,977 --> 00:57:00,607
Should I stand in my righteousness
in the evil day or should I stand

1016
00:57:00,607 --> 00:57:02,537
in the righteousness in Jesus?

1017
00:57:03,907 --> 00:57:05,317
What breastplate should I put on?

1018
00:57:06,757 --> 00:57:11,437
I would put on the one that Jesus
provides in what he's done and stand

1019
00:57:11,437 --> 00:57:15,157
in the gospel and his might, what
he declares about you is truly true.

1020
00:57:16,642 --> 00:57:22,042
And then out a response of gratitude where
we're not leveraging God on our behalf

1021
00:57:22,042 --> 00:57:26,572
or using him to get into the circle,
but because he is declared before all

1022
00:57:26,572 --> 00:57:33,172
of creation, you're in the circle that
you are my beloved son and whom I'm well

1023
00:57:33,177 --> 00:57:38,512
pleased, well done now, good and faithful
servant, that we get to enter into the joy

1024
00:57:38,512 --> 00:57:42,144
of the Lord that because, he's declared
that because we're already there, we don't

1025
00:57:42,144 --> 00:57:45,474
have to use good works to try to get him.

1026
00:57:46,734 --> 00:57:50,874
Now we can just use as an
expression of our delight to him.

1027
00:57:52,584 --> 00:57:55,224
And that is something he loves.

1028
00:57:55,224 --> 00:57:56,004
That's the good works.

1029
00:57:56,004 --> 00:57:58,862
That Ephesians too says that
he ordained for us to walk in.

1030
00:57:59,192 --> 00:58:00,632
He doesn't want it to be burdensome.

1031
00:58:00,632 --> 00:58:01,532
He says, my yo is easy.

1032
00:58:01,532 --> 00:58:02,582
My burden is light.

1033
00:58:03,452 --> 00:58:08,282
Whenever he talks about good works,
it's like Collin celebrating the party.

1034
00:58:08,732 --> 00:58:09,482
Go tell people.

1035
00:58:09,482 --> 00:58:10,052
What does he say?

1036
00:58:10,052 --> 00:58:13,352
It's like a wedding and we're inviting
people to the greatest celebration.

1037
00:58:13,862 --> 00:58:15,152
Oh, that sounds terrible.

1038
00:58:15,922 --> 00:58:18,392
No, that's amazing.

1039
00:58:18,752 --> 00:58:21,572
The mission that God, we get
to see miracles happen, that

1040
00:58:21,572 --> 00:58:25,022
he restores the dead, that he
brings the dead back to life.

1041
00:58:25,022 --> 00:58:26,342
That people get saved.

1042
00:58:26,395 --> 00:58:28,441
, when you're like, they're
not gonna get saved.

1043
00:58:28,441 --> 00:58:29,371
They're hopeless candidate.

1044
00:58:29,376 --> 00:58:32,983
No, God still reaches down and
he calls people out of the tomb.

1045
00:58:33,018 --> 00:58:35,598
this shapes everyth.

1046
00:58:36,288 --> 00:58:37,578
and how we relate to God.

1047
00:58:37,578 --> 00:58:40,735
This takes care of shame because
God says, I know, but I love you.

1048
00:58:41,485 --> 00:58:44,896
I know Joshua, that you're more,
Ash, I know what you've been,

1049
00:58:44,908 --> 00:58:46,343
impacted with what you've done.

1050
00:58:46,343 --> 00:58:47,693
That's why I've come for you.

1051
00:58:47,693 --> 00:58:48,593
I've come to rescue you.

1052
00:58:48,593 --> 00:58:50,333
I'm not holding anything back.

1053
00:58:50,382 --> 00:58:52,285
I'm giving you my all.

1054
00:58:52,805 --> 00:58:54,025
I'm giving you my all.

1055
00:58:54,025 --> 00:58:56,837
And I've given you that, that
beautiful, perfect record.

1056
00:58:56,903 --> 00:59:01,193
so that every day on your worst day,
you know that you're delighted to.

1057
00:59:01,910 --> 00:59:06,435
We pray that like Paul said, okay, Lord,
I, I told him I gave you this, them

1058
00:59:06,675 --> 00:59:10,065
this amazing theology, and it's gonna be
pointless and it's gonna bounce off the

1059
00:59:10,065 --> 00:59:14,295
ceiling unless you open the eyes of their
heart to come humbly to scripture and

1060
00:59:14,295 --> 00:59:16,075
say, Lord, I need you to do this in me.

1061
00:59:16,075 --> 00:59:17,011
I want to believe this.

1062
00:59:17,011 --> 00:59:17,111
I.

1063
00:59:17,123 --> 00:59:18,263
we need community.

1064
00:59:18,473 --> 00:59:19,790
We need people to gospel.

1065
00:59:19,795 --> 00:59:23,130
and again, that's a foreign thing cuz
we're an individualistic society, but

1066
00:59:23,130 --> 00:59:26,820
we need to get comfortable with the
fact that like, when I'm down, Tom comes

1067
00:59:26,820 --> 00:59:31,670
alongside and goes, Hey, try to say
you're doing the good news about Jesus.

1068
00:59:31,730 --> 00:59:32,150
Yes.

1069
00:59:32,150 --> 00:59:32,390
Yeah.

1070
00:59:32,580 --> 00:59:33,510
It's not over.

1071
00:59:33,980 --> 00:59:37,259
People say speaking into our
lives and us welcoming that and

1072
00:59:37,259 --> 00:59:38,669
doing that for other people.

1073
00:59:39,059 --> 00:59:41,029
We don't do this on our own.

1074
00:59:41,146 --> 00:59:46,416
And as, as we think about it,
as we pray it into our hearts.

1075
00:59:46,451 --> 00:59:47,824
Easter meditation is clear.

1076
00:59:47,824 --> 00:59:50,194
Your mind, biblical meditation
is fill your mind with truth.

1077
00:59:50,246 --> 00:59:50,862
Very different.

1078
00:59:50,885 --> 00:59:55,797
we worship the truth in, we sing,
we praise, we pray scripture over

1079
00:59:55,887 --> 01:00:02,097
the songs, but not in a way to, to
use it as a method to unlock the

1080
01:00:02,097 --> 01:00:04,257
potential or the five power principles.

1081
01:00:04,257 --> 01:00:05,727
Like it, it's to have God.

1082
01:00:05,767 --> 01:00:11,062
the whole point of  the breastplate
of righteousness is I get God.

1083
01:00:11,062 --> 01:00:11,555
, unhindered.

1084
01:00:12,335 --> 01:00:12,785
That's it.

1085
01:00:13,775 --> 01:00:19,122
That's, I, that is, I get Jesus, like
he's made a way where there was no way,

1086
01:00:19,572 --> 01:00:21,882
he's made me presentable to the father.

1087
01:00:21,882 --> 01:00:25,189
I get the family that I've always
long for like the focus isn't on

1088
01:00:25,219 --> 01:00:31,003
us, like becoming better, but being
with Jesus, and, intimacy with him.

1089
01:00:31,024 --> 01:00:31,954
that's what we've been made for.

1090
01:00:31,954 --> 01:00:37,534
Walking with him in the cool of
the day, and he's very patient

1091
01:00:41,944 --> 01:00:44,384
and relentless in his pursuit