Christ in You: Cultivating New Habits of the Heart

``Again, if if you're with us at the beginning of the series, we talked about how the idea that according to research, about only 5% of our lives are we directly consciously kind of aware of what's happening. In other words, 95% of our lives, we're just going through the motions. Our unconscious habits are just kind of how we are living our lives. And if what we said at the beginning is true, then and our habits are influencing us, then we're becoming something that we're neither intending to become nor are we even aware of necessarily. Like, it's possible we're just becoming a particular thing we never intended to become at all, which brings us to a vital axiom, a truth you need to hold on to. And it is so stunning and so kind of earth shattering. You get you can't believe the wordsmith that I am to make this for you. Prepare yourselves for this groundbreaking stint sentence. The more I do a thing, the more I do a thing. [00:51:48] (48 seconds)  #HabitsBecomeYou

These new patterns don't create it but they reinforce what's already true. You see how that works? So the Holy Spirit, Christ in me that mystery, he he can he can be resisted and ignored, but he also can be cultivated and heard and encouraged by new patterns that make what's already true more apparent to us so we live out of that reality. You see, what we have to start thinking about if we really want this if we want the kind of life god wants for us, we have to at least start thinking about the fact that maybe we ought to replace our old patterns with new patterns that match the new life and the new self Jesus intends for us to have. [00:57:57] (40 seconds)  #CultivateNewPatterns

God's putting this spirit, the same exact spirit that was at the time present of creation, the same spirit that breathed life into the human being. Says He it's going into people's hearts. The hearts as we talked about last week, it's where it's the place from which our wants form, wants are formed and our actions flow. Like the life God intended for us is the outflow of his presence within his people. [00:46:51] (23 seconds)  #SpiritWithinHearts

So the whole story of God keeps moving towards this place. The the bible has this promise where God keeps saying, I'm gonna make my home among you and dwell among you all the time. And then it gets all the way to the point where it's like, I'm gonna dwell in your heart and change your heart. And then it says, Christ in you, this great mystery, which means somehow Jesus in me is what you and I were made for. It's like that's the thing we were that's the thing that's that transcendent familiarity. Jesus so distant and so close at the same time. [00:48:00] (33 seconds)  #ChristInYou

The the sort of Tencent word for this is the word transcendence. Some of you are familiar with this word. And there's a lot of ways we could probably define this for today. This is my own definition. There are probably better definitions, but stay with me on this. Probably the best definition I can think of is sort of a a a familiar beyondness. Like, there's something about this that fits exactly where I am but also so much beyond. Like a song so beautiful and so undeniably true that it resonates with a kind of eternal sort of clarity. That's transcendence. [00:37:59] (30 seconds)  #TranscendentFamiliar

warts and all, everything not going so great, a little off, however that is, whatever that might look like for us, we have a need to be seen, acknowledged, known, and loved just like that. We also every single one of us in the world concurrently also has another thing which is we also have a need to become something because every one of us, if we are in fact a work in progress, can admit that where we are now is not where we ultimately intend to be forever because we're we're constantly becoming something else. [00:31:08] (26 seconds)  #SeenKnownBecome

Like, are there old patterns in your life that maybe they're they're really they worked perfectly for an old life, but all of a sudden they're making your present life really confusing? Is the way of thinking? Is it a is it a practice or an activity that you're doing over and over again that's shaping you? But maybe it's time to go, I don't know if I need that anymore. Maybe because maybe if you sort of, at some point, decided you wanna trust Jesus with your life, is is there a set of new things that ought to start being introduced into your life that reinforce the reality that God is so crazy about you that he loves you? That constantly reminds you of how much everybody else in your life is also important, that constantly sort of reinforces the idea that you can be forgiven and that there is a future and a hope. Are there new practices that reinforce that kind of life that you were made for? [01:00:33] (48 seconds)  #NewPatternsNewLife

In either case I just wanna tell you, this might be the to put it this way, in either case, it is either all up to me to make something meaningful in my life or it is all about me. It's just all about me. And I just wanna tell you, and I get for a lot of folks, this is they've tried other things and they're in that situation. It's a massive burden to make my own wants become my life's compass. That's a massive burden. It's all up to me and it's all about me. That's a really huge burden. And all of us in this room, every one of us can point to moments where our own wants have led us to some very serious regrets. Like, maybe then we were designed for something other than those things. [00:43:49] (49 seconds)  #WantsDontDefineYou