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Welcome to the Islands Christian
Church podcast. 

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every week. 

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Thanks for joining us. 
So let's jump into our talk. 

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If you have your Bibles, go to 
Romans chapter 8. 

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We are kind of picking up the 
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week and we are just going to 
keep marching through some 

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verses here in Romans. 
And I'm going to be completely 

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frank with you. 
I probably bit off more than I 

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can chew when it comes to 
preaching a sermon. 

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We're going to talk about Romans
chapter 8, verses 5 through 16, 

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verses 5 through 16. 
If you don't know when you're 

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talking about Romans, that's a 
lot of verses. 

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That's a lot. 
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And so we're going to, we're 
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So you guys hang with me, 
pretend like it's good. 

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All right, just kind of out like
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That'll help me stay in place. 
You know what we Daydream about?

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Kind of what we imagine often 
reveals what we desire most. 

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We can all imagine our lives 
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Have you ever done this? 
We just kind of imagine your 

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life different than what it is 
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Maybe we imagine a different 
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Maybe we imagine ourselves with 
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ourselves. 
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Maybe if you ever, if you ever 
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patient than you currently are 
anybody ever done that right? 

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Yeah, me too. 
Maybe we imagine ourselves being

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more joyful than we are. 
Maybe we imagine ourselves being

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less reactive, less anxious, 
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Maybe we imagine ourselves. 
This is what I tend to imagine 

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myself about the future is we 
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less busy. 
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Just I imagine myself being less
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Like there's just less things 
going on, the ability that you 

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have and that I have to imagine 
something better, to imagine a 

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different future, to imagine a 
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That ability is a gift from God.
You are wired on purpose to be 

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that way. 
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tool that he uses for your 
maturity and for your spiritual 

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growth. 
If you are a believer, he uses 

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that imagination to see yourself
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He uses that to grow your faith 
and to mature you in your faith.

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Now, last week we started this 
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creating space for the life 
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And now this series is about 
maturity. 

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It's about growing up in your 
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It's, you know, we talk a lot 
around here about justification,

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which is the doctrine of, you 
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justifies us. 
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theological term. 
Maybe you've heard of this term 

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before, sanctification. 
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We made you all say it together.
We're going to say it together 

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again. 
When I say 123, you say 

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sanctification. 
You ready 123 sanctification. 

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And So what is sanctification? 
You're like big words and come 

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to church, this guy. 
Sanctification is simply this. 

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It's the Holy Spirit's work of 
gradually shaping you into the 

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likeness of Jesus over your 
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It's the Holy Spirit's work. 
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definition. 
It's the Holy Spirit's work of 

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gradually, gradually shaping you
into Christ's likeness over your

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lifetime. 
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I can feel that gradual thing. 
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right? 
We can all testify to that. 

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Super gradual. 
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sometimes seem very slow. 
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about, if you were here, you 
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If you weren't, that's OK. 
You could go back on YouTube and

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catch up or you'll you'll be 
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You're smart. 
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of us there's a war, that we are
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And we said that we're that we 
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this this flesh, a war with our 
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And we're all constantly 
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said, hey, we want to do the 
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pulled to do the bad thing. 
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with Paul. 
Like we all we desire good 

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things, we want to be good, but 
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Remember, Paul said, I find that
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and I do the bad I don't want to
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And we all kind of went, yeah, I
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And so we said there's this 
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of us. 
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really important that I said 
last week in the second service.

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And I don't think I said it in 
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And man, it was like a moment 
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And I want to tell you, if you 
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service, let me publicly 
apologize for not giving you the

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best sermon I could have, 
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on this. 
One of the key ideas of the tech

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of the text from last week and 
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Is that the sin in US, that the 
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us, the sin in US that has been 
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God has condemned the sin in us,
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So the sin in me has been 
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condemned you, and he's 
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He's separated the fact that 
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Your failure has been separated 
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In other words, your identity 
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not the fact that you fail. 
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That is not who you are. 
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not condemned by God. 
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condemnation for those who are 
in Christ Jesus, that if you 

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know Jesus Christ, you are not 
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And here's the thing that means 
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not on probation. 
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Christian life like they're kind
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Like if I can keep being good 
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1.6 * a month, I should be OK, 
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And that's, that's not the story
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You're not on probation with 
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You're not one mistake away from
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That is not the story of the 
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you are, you are not condemned. 
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about how the Holy Spirit 
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But you must start. 
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foundation that in Christ there 
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You cannot talk about 
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grasp and an understanding of 
justification, that you have 

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been justified just as if you'd 
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of Jesus Christ. 
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you are not condemned, you are 
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From that foundation, we can 
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happens and how the Holy Spirit 
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And here's the big idea, if you 
take notes, which you can write 

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down to kind of guide our 
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you later when you look back at 
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you. 
The Holy Spirit is changing you.

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The Holy Spirit is changing you.
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of your adoption, and he does so
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adoption. 
The Holy Spirit is changing you 

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and he does so by reminding you 
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All right, so maybe you've taken
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to Romans 8 already, or you've 
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Romans 8. 
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verses 5 and we're going to read
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We're not, we're going to go all
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going to read it in chunk so we 
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Romans 8, verses 5 through 8. 
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letter. 
It's a it's like a guy wrote a 

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long e-mail to a church and in 
the to Christians in Rome. 

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And Please remember that Romans 
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It's a masterpiece of 1 long 
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Paul's making an arc of an 
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letter. 
And so when you pick up just 

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like parts of the, the, the 
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the middle of an argument. 
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into the middle of an argument. 
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chapter 8 was Chapter 7 was, 
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this body of sin that is under 
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death. 
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We can't seem to break out of 
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But verse eight said, but you 
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We are not condemned because God
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am, that I'm a Sinner and I do 
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He separated that from who I am.
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he does not condemn me. 
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rest of the argument of how, how
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How does the Christian life work
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So Romans chapter 8, verses 5 
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You ready? 
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flesh have their minds set on 
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those who live in accordance 
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set on what the Spirit desires. 
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is death, but the mind governed 
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The mind governed by the flesh 
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It does not submit to God's law 
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Those who are in the realm of 
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Now, there is a word that Paul 
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in those verses. 
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It was the word mind, MIND. 
Did you see that mind in these 

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verses? 
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really there in verse 6, right? 
You have two options on where 

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you can set your mind and this 
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And here's the first idea this 
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You ready? 
The first idea this morning, if 

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you take notes, is this what 
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life, what you think about 
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That's what Paul's saying is 
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And Paul's not saying there are 
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He, he, he's actually saying 
there are only, there are two 

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types of preoccupations for the 
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And this is there are only two, 
there are only two of two types 

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of preoccupations for the human 
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minds on. 
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on the flesh or the natural 
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You know, the values of the 
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exaltation. 
Get as much as you can, store up

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as much as you can, have as much
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be merry for tomorrow we die. 
Like that's one thing we can set

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our mind on self protection, 
self exaltation, the mind of the

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flesh. 
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That's one thing you can set 
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Then the other is the you can 
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the Spirit. 
Those are the only two options. 

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And what are the things of the 
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realities of grace, the truth of
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These are these are the only 
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There aren't any other. 
You can either set your mind on 

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the things of the flesh, the 
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things of the natural world, or 
you can set your mind on the 

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things of the Spirit. 
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just casual thinking. 
Set the word for setting your 

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mind here that Paul's using 
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It's a Greek word that means to 
strive and to seek. 

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So the word means something like
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something, to have something 
that's on your mind so much that

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it's governing you that you're 
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Let me ask you this question. 
Have you ever known anybody that

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when they're going to purchase 
something, they have to become 

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experts about that product 
they're going to purchase 

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anybody, anybody know I'm 
talking about some of you are 

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willing to raise your hand like 
you like, man, you got to read 

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every article. 
You study price, you studied the

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price, you track the prices for 
months or weeks or days. 

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You know, you're just you're 
watching YouTube videos. 

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You got a whole playlist on your
YouTube of like the reviews 

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around this item. 
You know, I'm talking about. 

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And it's like all you can talk 
about your friends, your spouse,

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they're so annoyed with you. 
They're like, for the love of 

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God, if I just buy it for you, 
will you shut up about it, 

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right? 
Like, but if you can't, but you 

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can't go buy it for him. 
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buy the wrong one, you'll buy 
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So like, and you can't give them
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trying to decide which one. 
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Surely that'll get you the TV 
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I don't know, a year later 
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this new model that's coming out
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sinful nature, the flesh, or the
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the only two that will govern 
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between if you set your mind on 
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mind on the things of the 
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different. 
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and striving for the things of 
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physical death. 
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in Genesis chapter 1 and 2, 
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spiritual sense. 
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yourself where you just aren't 
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life? 
They just keep doing destructive

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contrasting difference, can you?
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things of the flesh leads to 
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restlessness, destructive 
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on the things of the Spirit 
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This is more than just living. 
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refers to in John chapter 10, 
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come that they may have life and
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is the outcome. 
So what you Daydream about, what

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you set your mind on has a real 
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Listen to me, friend, I love 
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What you set your mind on is not
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it's formational. 
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and health. 
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wholeness and health. 
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You can set your mind on the 
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OK, Steven, if what governs our 
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knowing what governs our mind is
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asking. 
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morning. 
The second idea this morning is 

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who governs me? 
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yourself. 
Maybe if you take notes, you can

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write on your notes right now. 
Who governs me? 

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What governs me? 
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You, however, are not in the 
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the realm of the Spirit, if 
indeed the Spirit of God lives 

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in you. 
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Spirit of Christ, they do not 
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But if Christ is in you, then 
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to death because of sin, the 
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righteousness. 
And if the Spirit of him who 

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raised Jesus from the dead is 
living in you, he who raised 

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Christ from the dead will also 
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because of his Spirit who lives 
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It's an absolutely beautiful 
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It is Paul making a powerful 
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It's a gospel centered claim. 
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He's saying simply he's write 
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He is saying, if you belong to 
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in you, period. 
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Spirit of God lives in you. 
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surrendered your life to Christ,
if you have said, I place my 

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faith in Jesus Christ, he is my 
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lives in you, period. 
Notice he does not say if you 

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try hard enough to be good, then
maybe God's Spirit will come and

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be with you. 
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trust and really believe that 
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This is this is radical. 
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Spirit himself and dwells and 
lives in you based on no merit 

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of your own, based on nothing 
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God himself lives in you. 
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you. 
This is what Jesus said in the 

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Gospel. 
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send a helper. 
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you. 
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If by your faith in Christ you 
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beautiful. 
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your faith in Christ. 
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Holy Spirit is governing us and 
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Christ. 
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where you think I don't? 
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faith in Christ, but I don't 
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Is the Holy Spirit governing me?
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There are days when you don't 
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There are days when you don't 
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to this idea, but the Scripture 
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You have the Holy Spirit because
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Now verse 10 says something 
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governing us. 
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I love this verse. 
Let me he'll put this back on 

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the screen. 
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But if Christ is in you comma, 
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subject to death because of sin 
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about last week. 
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because of the synonym. 
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then even though your body is in
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though your body is subject to 
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Spirit gives life because of 
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This verse, it's like the the 
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what we said was in our bodies. 
There's a war and that sin is 

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plaguing us, right? 
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I want to do good, but I'm 
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of me, inside of my body. 
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there is life, abundant life 
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that war alongside that war. 
How can I be plagued with sin, 

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plagued with wanting to do the 
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Spirit living in me, giving me 
life at the same time? 

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Have you ever felt like I can't 
get it right? 

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I don't ever do good enough? 
Surely God has abandoned me? 

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Paul says. 
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And actually, yes, there was a 
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plaguing you, but the Holy 
Spirit is right there in you 

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giving you life. 
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What does he say? 
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says, but if Christ is in you, 
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subject to death, which we all 
are, all our bodies are subject 

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to death because of sin. 
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me right here. 
He says, even though that's true

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of you, the Spirit still gives 
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Well, how's that possible, 
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Well, he tells you in the verse,
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Because of righteousness. 
Now you got to pause here 

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because you don't got to read 
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Whose righteousness is he 
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Is Paul saying if you're 
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Spirit will give you life? 
That can't be because Romans 3, 

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Romans chapter 3 says that for 
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the glory of God, there is none 
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If the Holy Spirit comes into my
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your broken life, your messed up
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you're broken, I know you're 
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I know sin is plaguing us, but 
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Holy Spirit and here's life for 
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How is that possible? 
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righteousness. 
Well, whose righteousness? 

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Not mine. 
Romans 3 and 4, chapters 3 and 

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4. 
Then whose righteousness makes 

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it possible for me to have God's
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An answer you could always say 
in church and almost always be 

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right is the word Jesus. 
So if I say whose righteousness,

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if it's not my righteousness, 
whose righteousness makes it 

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possible for the Holy Spirit, 
for God's Spirit to live inside 

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of me and give me life, Who if 
not mine, whose? 

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And the Sunday school answer is 
right. 

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Look at there, look at there. 
You guys are ready for prime 

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time, man. 
You see, if you go chapter 8 

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verses 3 and 4, remember Paul 
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He said that God, so just 
earlier in this chapter, he said

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God sent his Son as a sin 
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That means his Son was the 
payment for sin that through 

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Christ the righteous requirement
of the law is met in US. 

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Remember I told you this last 
week, you are righteously 

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perfect before God. 
And This is why the Holy Spirit 

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can live inside of you. 
The reason you have the Holy 

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Spirit is because of the 
righteousness of Christ has been

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given to you. 
And so now your body, your body,

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listen to me carefully. 
Your body, this, this body is 

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now a perfect temple of God's 
Holy Spirit, of the Holy Spirit,

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not because you're so holy and 
you keep yourself so clean and 

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you go to church so much and you
never say those dirty words, not

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because of any of that, but 
because God and his infinite 

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grace credited Jesus's 
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He gave you Jesus's 
righteousness as if it were your

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own. 
This is the foundation of the 

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gospel. 
This is how the Holy Spirit can 

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live in you. 
Even though our bodies are at 

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war, even though they're plagued
with being pulled this way and 

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that way, the Holy Spirit can 
live in me. 

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But this grace of sanctification
gets even better for us. 

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It gets this is even better. 
There's there's something in 

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this passage that's even better.
Paul says something astonishing 

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here, the end of verse 11. 
He says this, He who raised 

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Christ from the dead will also 
give life to your mortal bodies 

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because of his Spirit who lives 
in you. 

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Now that is not just poetic 
language. 

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He's not just saying, oh, he'll 
give life to your more. 

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It's not just poetic language. 
This is the power of the 

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resurrection language. 
He's bringing up the 

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resurrection on purpose. 
And if you go back and read 

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verse 11 on your own later 
today, you'll realize that he 

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mentions Jesus is the power of 
the resurrection twice. 

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You'll meant you'll see it 
twice. 

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He's not just bringing up the 
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No, he's doing this on purpose. 
And I love this part. 

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Please don't miss this. 
The Spirit of God gives life to 

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your mortal bodies. 
Think about the oxymoron of that

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sentence. 
What does mortal mean? 

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That's not a trick question. 
Means you're dying. 

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And everybody's like, yeah, 
that's true. 

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I'm dying. 
And the text says that the Holy 

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Spirit gives life. 
What is what is the opposite of 

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dying? 
Life living. 

453
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:10,520
The text says that the Holy 
Spirit gives life to our mortal 

454
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:13,520
bodies. 
And so we said our bodies are 

455
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,440
subject to death. 
They're plagued with this war, 

456
00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:20,080
and we feel this battleground. 
But Paul says even your bodies, 

457
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,760
even your hands and your mouth, 
your bodies, they are not beyond

458
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,680
redemption. 
God is not just resurrecting 

459
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:30,840
your souls into a new life. 
No, that's, that's, that's 

460
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,000
Greek, that's not Christianity. 
He's not just resurrecting your 

461
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,920
souls into new life, but he's 
bringing new life to your bodies

462
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,680
as well as to your soul. 
And not just ultimately in the 

463
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,200
end, when we get a new body, 
anybody else looking forward to 

464
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,080
their new body? 
And not just in the end when we 

465
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:49,600
get a new body, but today, right
now, the Holy Spirit is actually

466
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,960
doing the work of bringing life 
to your current mortal body. 

467
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,000
Right now. 
This is amazing thing about the 

468
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,320
gospel. 
There is no dualism here, right?

469
00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,240
There isn't. 
There's no idea in Christianity 

470
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,440
that says, you know, the body is
bad and the spirit is good. 

471
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:07,160
No, that's not Christianity. 
Paul's not saying that the soul 

472
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,400
is worth saying saving, but the 
body is not. 

473
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:14,520
No, the Christianity teaches 
that both body and soul get new 

474
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:19,000
life from the Holy Spirit. 
OK, how does the body that's 

475
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,240
decaying and dying get new life 
from the Holy Spirit? 

476
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:26,760
Well, in Galatians Paul talks 
about this thing called the 

477
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,800
fruit of the Spirit. 
You should go read it later. 

478
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,440
And now the fruit of the Spirit 
doesn't just show up in your 

479
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,520
heart, does it? 
It doesn't just show up in your 

480
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,400
mind. 
So think about this. 

481
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,440
The Holy Spirit makes you more 
patient. 

482
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,000
Are you just more patient in 
your heart or are you more 

483
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:48,040
patient with your tongue? 
Are you just more patient in 

484
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,560
your soul or are you more 
patient with your tongue? 

485
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,840
You see, there is an internal 
thing that the Holy Spirit's 

486
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,400
working in your soul and 
bringing new life, but He also 

487
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,960
brings new life to your tongue. 
And so that we are more patient 

488
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,040
with our tongue. 
Think about it this way. 

489
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,240
One of the fruit of the Holy 
Spirit is kindness. 

490
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,480
And so we're not just kind in 
our soul or kind in our 

491
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,000
intentions, but we're kind in 
our actions. 

492
00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:18,040
Our mortal bodies, though 
diseased by the law of sin and 

493
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:24,560
death, are capable of God like 
goodness because resurrection 

494
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,960
life has been given to you by 
the Holy Spirit. 

495
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:35,280
I want to say that again, your 
mortal body, which is in the 

496
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:39,160
battle of sin and under the law 
of sin and death, and in this 

497
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:47,560
battle your mortal body is 
capable of God like goodness 

498
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:55,360
because of the resurrection life
that has been given to you by 

499
00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:59,400
the Holy Spirit, your hands and 
your feet. 

500
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,200
The Holy Spirit is not just 
making you feel alive, He's 

501
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:06,880
making your life different. 
So who governs you? 

502
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,520
Who governs you? 
The Holy Spirit governs you, 

503
00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:14,040
period. 
The Holy Spirit governs you if 

504
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,760
you are in Christ, if you do not
always feel it, it doesn't 

505
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:19,400
matter. 
He's always working you. 

506
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,080
He's always working in you. 
You do not govern yourself. 

507
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:27,480
You are spirit dwelt. 
Your body and soul are 

508
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:31,600
experiencing resurrection power 
even right this minute. 

509
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,200
Now before we leave today, and 
I've got to rush through this, I

510
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:37,800
promise. 
Let me do this before we leave 

511
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,160
today. 
There has to be something said 

512
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:45,520
about your role and my role in 
what the Spirit is doing to 

513
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,680
sanctify us because we do have a
role. 

514
00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:49,680
And this is our third idea 
today. 

515
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,720
You ready? 
This is our our obligation, our 

516
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,720
obligation. 
Romans chapter 8 verses 12 

517
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,880
through 16 says this. 
Therefore, brothers and sisters,

518
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,000
we have an obligation. 
But it is not to the flesh to 

519
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,480
live according to it. 
For if you live according to the

520
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,960
flesh, you will die. 
But if by the Spirit you put to 

521
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:08,920
death the misdeeds of the body, 
you will live. 

522
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,720
For those who are led by the 
Spirit of God or the children of

523
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,920
God, the Spirit you receive does
not make you slaves, so that you

524
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,040
live in fear again. 
Rather, the Spirit you received 

525
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,080
brought about your adoption to 
sonship. 

526
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,760
And by him we cry, ABBA, Father,
the Spirit himself testifies 

527
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,080
with our Spirit that we are 
God's children. 

528
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,160
Now Paul says we have an 
obligation. 

529
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:28,440
That's what he said at the very 
beginning. 

530
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,400
Brothers and sisters, we have an
obligation. 

531
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,600
But then he quickly says it is 
not to our flesh. 

532
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,080
It is not to our flesh. 
And So what that means is this. 

533
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:41,800
Your old flesh sinful nature has
no claim on you anymore. 

534
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,720
You don't owe it anything. 
You don't owe your fear any 

535
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:46,600
obedience. 
You don't owe your resentment 

536
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,120
any loyalty. 
You don't owe. 

537
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,720
You don't owe your old patterns 
any allegiance. 

538
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,160
They have no rights over you 
because now instead of belonging

539
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,520
to your old self, you belong to 
God, not because you earned it, 

540
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,520
but because Christ redeemed you 
from sin and death. 

541
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,480
Now let's reread verse 13. 
This is the scary part. 

542
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,440
This is the feels like religious
part. 

543
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,840
This is the part that people 
kind of use to hit other people 

544
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,840
over their heads with, right? 
Verse 13 says if by the Spirit 

545
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,720
you put to death the misdeeds of
the body, you will live. 

546
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,800
And there's something we miss in
verse 13, and you can miss it 

547
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,200
very easily. 
You and I do not put to death 

548
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:27,240
the misdeeds of the body by our 
effort or by our determination 

549
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,040
or our willpower. 
How do we put to death the 

550
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,040
misdeeds of the body? 
By the what? 

551
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,480
By the Spirit. 
That's what the text said. 

552
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,680
Just by the Spirit, by His 
presence, by His resurrection 

553
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,320
power, by Him living inside of 
us. 

554
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,520
Now this is not self salvation. 
Meaning if I try hard enough 

555
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:51,600
then I will be good. 
No, this is surrender to the 

556
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,960
Holy Spirit. 
This is cooperation to the Holy 

557
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,680
Spirit. 
It means we listen to the Holy 

558
00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:01,160
Spirit. 
Well, Stephen, how do I kill the

559
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,520
deed, the misdeeds of the body? 
How do I've been trying to kill 

560
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:05,880
the misdeeds of the body my 
whole life. 

561
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,960
How do I kill the misdeeds of 
the body if it's not willpower 

562
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,120
and determination? 
Well, we go back to where we 

563
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:13,920
started at the very beginning of
this talk. 

564
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:21,000
We set our minds on things of 
the Spirit, verses 5 and 6, we 

565
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,840
set our minds on the things of 
the spirit. 

566
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:25,800
The things of the spirit are not
religious things. 

567
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,720
They're not religious 
activities. 

568
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,000
No. 
Paul, in these verses that I 

569
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,520
just read to you, verses 12 
through 612 through 16, he makes

570
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,000
it clear what the things of the 
Spirit are. 

571
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,160
He, he makes us super clear and 
the things of the things of the 

572
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,760
Spirit are not religious 
activities or religious stuff. 

573
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,040
The things of the Spirit are in 
this passage. 

574
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,520
He, he tells us what they are 
and what they are is this. 

575
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:50,680
You are a child of God. 
That's what Paul said. 

576
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,400
You are not a slave to fear 
anymore. 

577
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,000
And he says we have been adopted
into sonship. 

578
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,880
And I know that like some, like 
this is a translation of 

579
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:02,240
sonship. 
That's necessary. 

580
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:05,680
We need to have sonship there 
because it is not about gender. 

581
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,880
It's about a title. 
It's about a new status, because

582
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,400
in Roman culture, to be adopted 
into sonship meant that you went

583
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,000
from being whatever you were. 
If you were a slave or if you 

584
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,600
were underclass, if you didn't 
have money, you went 

585
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,480
immediately. 
As soon as you were adopted, you

586
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,680
went immediately as a member of 
that household with all the 

587
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,800
rights and privileges, 
completely and totally by 

588
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,120
nothing more than the will of 
the father who adopted you. 

589
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,760
So when Paul uses the term 
sonship, he's saying here's what

590
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,200
you have. 
You have a new status. 

591
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,400
These are the things of the 
spirit that we set our mind on. 

592
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,680
You are a child of God. 
You are not a slave. 

593
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:39,320
You have a new status. 
He uses this term ABBA, which is

594
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,960
like a term for endearment, like
saying dad or daddy. 

595
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,960
He said he's saying, hey, the, 
the things of the spirit are the

596
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,880
fact that you are God's child, 
that you have been adopted, that

597
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,680
you belong to God. 
And so Stephen, how can I, how 

598
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,240
can I mortify to use the old 
king King James version? 

599
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,400
How can I kill the misdeeds of 
the body if it's not through 

600
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,320
willpower and sheer 
determination? 

601
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,320
Will you set your mind on the 
things of the Spirit, or what 

602
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,720
are the things of the spirit? 
The things of the spirit are 

603
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,320
your identity. 
The things of the Spirit are 

604
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:17,480
what's true about you. 
And when you set your mind on 

605
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,880
the things of the Spirit, the 
fact that you're adopted, the 

606
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:21,960
fact that you're a child of God,
the fact that you were chosen, 

607
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:23,840
the fact that you've been given 
the status of sonship. 

608
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,520
When you set your mind on those 
beautiful truths and they 

609
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,040
dominate your thinking. 
If you begin to preach that 

610
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,800
gospel to yourself daily, I 
belong, I'm accepted by God. 

611
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:37,320
If you continue to do that and 
you do not preach law centered 

612
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,120
sermons to yourself, you know, 
Stephen, get it together. 

613
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,280
You can do better, try harder, 
stop better. 

614
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:46,600
But if you preach gospel 
centered truth to yourself, I'm 

615
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,520
adopted, I am loved, I belong, I
owe sin nothing. 

616
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,680
Then slowly over time, as you 
preach the the things of the 

617
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:59,640
Spirit to you, what Paul lists, 
your status, your life begins to

618
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:04,120
reflect who you actually are. 
But if you preach sermons like 

619
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:05,640
this, you can never get it 
together. 

620
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,000
Why can't you stop doing this? 
You need to try harder. 

621
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,680
Why can't you do that better? 
If you always preach sermons 

622
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,160
like that to yourself, you will 
always be feeling like you're a 

623
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:15,960
failure. 
But if you instead preach the 

624
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,560
truth of the gospel to yourself,
you are chosen. 

625
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,880
You are a son, you are a child 
of God, you are a daughter of 

626
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:23,280
God. 
You have been put into the 

627
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,160
family of God by his sheer will 
and desire for you. 

628
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:27,720
There's nothing you could do to 
deserve it. 

629
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,920
If you preach sermons of the 
gospel to yourself, slowly over 

630
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:34,240
time you will begin to live like
the the Son and the daughter of 

631
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:39,840
God that you are. 
You see, here's the thing, 

632
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:44,360
friend, Children do not obey to 
become sons. 

633
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,040
My children do not obey me in 
hopes that they will be my 

634
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:59,200
children one day. 
They obey me because they are my

635
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:05,600
children. 
Our identity forms our actions, 

636
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,320
not the other way around. 
Your actions will never form 

637
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,360
your identity because our bodies
are plagued with sin and death, 

638
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,520
but the truth of the gospel can 
form our actions. 

639
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:25,360
So friend, how do you make room 
for the life that Jesus is 

640
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,400
offering you? 
It is not by trying harder. 

641
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,480
Do not leave today and say 
you're going to try harder. 

642
00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:34,880
It is not by trying harder. 
It is by remembering better, 

643
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:42,040
remembering better, remembering 
the truth of your adoption. 

644
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,040
When you feel anxiety, preach 
adoption. 

645
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,800
Say my Father is in control of 
this world, He owns it. 

646
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,280
When you feel guilt creep in 
because you've done something 

647
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,400
wrong, say preach no 
condemnation. 

648
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,600
Say there is therefore now no 
condemnation for those who are 

649
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,280
in Christ Jesus. 
When temptation comes whispering

650
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:05,040
to you, telling you to abandon 
your sonship and to follow your 

651
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,320
flesh, preach the cross to 
yourself. 

652
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,240
Look at what Christ has done for
me. 

653
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,840
The Spirit inside of you is not 
waiting for you to impress Him. 

654
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:23,520
He knows you, He is reminding 
you daily that you already 

655
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,280
belong. 
And these are the things of the 

656
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,320
Spirit. 
And the more you set your mind 

657
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,920
on that truth, the more you will
put the deep to death, the 

658
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,880
misdeeds of the body. 
So making room for the Spirit 

659
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:42,040
means making room for the gospel
to shape how you think over time

660
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:48,280
and slowly how you live. 
I'm going to say benediction 

661
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:49,880
over us. 
Will you stand with me? 

662
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,240
It was a bit like drinking out 
of a fire hose today, wasn't it?

663
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:10,720
May the Spirit who raised Jesus 
from the dead remind you this 

664
00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:14,520
week that you belong to the 
Father. 

665
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:21,080
May your mind be governed not by
fear, but by life and peace. 

666
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,880
When anxiety rises, and it 
certainly will, may you remember

667
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:30,560
you are adopted. 
When guilt whispers, may you 

668
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,160
remember there is now no 
condemnation. 

669
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:39,560
And as you go from this place, 
may the gospel, the Good News 

670
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:46,680
shape how you think, so that 
slowly and surely your life 

671
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:51,000
reflects who you already are in 
Christ. 

672
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:57,920
Go, my brothers and sisters in 
the life and the peace the 

673
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:02,120
Spirit is bringing into you. 
Amen. 

674
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:03,600
Love you guys.