Buckle Up

That document did not become an original because that historian recognized it. It always was an original. The label was wrong, not the document. The thief has been placing labels on you your entire life, but you're too old or too young, too broken, too messed up, too far gone. You'll never change. You'll never have peace. God can never use you. No one can ever trust you, and he places label after label after label on your life. But the label's what's wrong, not you. [01:00:54] (39 seconds)  #LabelsAreLies

not in order to be accepted, but because she already is, because she already has his love, because she's already wanted by him. And that's what the gospel is. That relationship flows out of acceptance, not the other way around, but that's what the devil wants to twist. The thief wants to steal away that security and that confidence you have in Jesus. He's not trying to tell you Jesus ain't real. He's trying to tell you that Jesus is real, but his love is contingent on your performance. He wants to offer you that cup from the to make you forget what Jesus has to say about you. [00:48:33] (42 seconds)  #GraceNotPerformance

The belt doesn't go on in the middle of the battle. You don't throw the belt on whenever you lose it. You put the belt on before you leave the house. That's just logic. Right? I need my pants to stay on all day long. The belt goes on before you even go into battle because the battle's beginning before you even get out of bed. The enemy wants to disorient you on your identity to make you doubt who God says you are because if he can mess with that, then he already has compromised your faith. He's compromised your peace. He's compromised your relationships. He doesn't have to overpower you. He's just gotta convince you that you can't fight back. [00:49:49] (36 seconds)  #ArmorUpBeforeBattle

see, lies are Satan's native language. He is the best at this, the master of lies, and he's been using this technique since day one, creation. In the Garden of Eden, the first thing he did was lie to Adam and Eve, but he didn't lie to them about their behavior. He lied to them about what God said and who they were in relation to God. This is the same playbook every single time. So how do we stop the con before he pulls it off? [00:39:31] (33 seconds)  #EnemyOfIdentity

Says, yeah. God exists, but he's keeping score, and you're losing. There's an author, mathematician, apologist, named John Lennox, and John Lennox goes and debates with many of the world's most sharp and skeptical minds. He debates on behalf of Christianity. And he's used as an illustration before as he's tried to explain what how people see religion. He he said, imagine that I I met this woman for the first time, and I decided to propose with a cookbook. And I gave her the cookbook and said, alright. [00:44:38] (37 seconds)  #NotARulebook

Here's the here's the rules. I like a pie. So if you make pie the way that the book says for the next forty years, then I'll accept and love you. Probably wouldn't work really well. As a strategy, single gentleman, wouldn't recommend it. Alright? It's problematic for a lot of reasons. Kinda sexist. The expectations are outrageous. It's narcissistic, and yet that's how so many people view Christianity. Here's the list of rules. Manage your image. Do what I wanna see. Be good enough. And then if you measure up, maybe, eventually, we'll let you in. [00:45:15] (39 seconds)  #GraceNotChecklist

I I mean, mean, if we're honest, that's how a lot of people see God even if you've been following God for a little while, even if you've been a Christian for a little while. We might know about grace, but there's still this silent scoreboard running in the back of our minds that feels like we're always behind, never doing everything that we think God wants from us. But this is not what God wants for you. This is not what Jesus is offering you. This is not what Jesus gives you. Jesus has a very different path, [00:46:41] (35 seconds)  #NoScoreboardFaith

That Jesus, before you even chose him, sacrificed everything, paid the ultimate price so that way he could have relationship with you. Satan wants to make you forget that you are valued and you are loved, and it has nothing to do with your performance or your merit. He wants to rob your identity away from you. So how do we stop him? You put on the belt of truth. And there's four ways that you use the belt in your life. Alright? Everybody, give me one. One. The first good job, spicy second. Good job. The first way is that you gotta know before you go. [00:49:15] (33 seconds)  #ChosenBeforeYouChoose