Embracing Our New Identity in Christ
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1. "God gives us, miraculously, this clean slate, this new beginning every single minute, and the problem is, is we often live our lives beating ourselves up over whatever we perceive to be wrong or inadequate or not enough, or we listen to other people beating us up about how we are not enough or we are somehow less than, and we start to believe it, and we start to forget that the gospel actually changed everything." ([00:00:01] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2. "And I think if that's so mind-bending and I can't get my head around it, what about the gospel of Jesus Christ? The gospel is the power of God for salvation. Death is conquered and eternal life with God is secured. He catches us impossibly in our sin, in our death, in our despair. He catches us. He heals us. He restores us. He sets us free to relaunch into our new trajectory of life, our new life with Jesus Christ. Impossible." ([00:01:59] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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3. "We co-live with Jesus Christ now. This is the symbolism of baptism. We co-died with Jesus as he died on the cross and paid the price for sins. We die with him. When he rose again, we rise with him. And in that way, we have new life because we participated in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus as he did it. And it's, of course, a huge idea that we can't really get our minds around. But this is what Paul is saying happened. This crazy new reality that really we didn't do, we have access to by grace through faith." ([00:03:21] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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4. "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ. No condemnation, not from God, not from anyone else, because we live in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, as if it were our own. It's hard to remember sometimes, especially when you're going through something. But how important to remember when God says, lovingly, looks into your eyes and says, you are not condemned. I will not condemn you. There's nothing to condemn. You have a clean slate." ([00:04:10] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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5. "The Holy Spirit now, through Jesus, dwells within us, so the righteous requirement of the law is made in us, from the inside out, because the Holy Spirit now lives inside of us. Again, another huge idea that has taken 2,000 years to unpack. What Paul is saying is, is that these are the mechanics. You have now this new spirit, the Spirit of God, the law of the Spirit that will be dictating your life, or in your, in a present in your life in a different way than it was before." ([00:08:48] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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6. "But the truth is, you can't set your mind to something that you don't know. This is Paul's point. You can't set your mind on Jesus without knowing Jesus and this is the big important distinction of church life is that you could know all about Jesus and not know Jesus in the same way that I could probably look you up on Facebook and I could know a lot about you scarily it doesn't mean I know you I don't know you at all." ([00:12:48] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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7. "And that this regenerative experience enables us to set our mind on Christ because now we can know him. Why? Because he dwells within us through the Holy Spirit. And well, you probably know this to be true. You ever have, I know I've had this in my life where, you know, I have friends or family and I'll say something and they will not understand what the heck I'm talking about." ([00:14:54] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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8. "And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit who lives in you. And if you don't know In other words, if the same Spirit that was in Jesus Christ, is now in you, you're going to see some of the same effects of the Spirit. It's the same Spirit at work. That's why we have hope for resurrection." ([00:16:33] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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9. "But it's, this is the surrender part. Yes, there's a new reality. The Holy Spirit now sits in the driver's seat of our lives. Praise God. Which makes everything possible in our new life with Christ. But now we've got to keep surrendering so that we allow the Spirit to take us where he wants us to go. That's like the rest of the Christian life. So there's the regenerative. Now we've got the new resident spirit within us, the Holy Spirit. And now there's the rest. The rest of the Christian life." ([00:20:26] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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10. "And he says now, Paul's saying now, we can be that intimate with God because he's living in us. He has adopted us as his children. I've told you this story before, but I was adopted legally when I was in high school. Even though my stepfather's a father that really. He raised me since I was five. But it wasn't until high school that we made it official. And I thought the weirdest thing, but also the coolest thing. I was always embarrassed by my birth name. And you know, every school year I'd have to try to catch the teacher before class started. Because I didn't want to hear him say the wrong name. Him or her say the wrong name. And then I'd have to correct it. And everybody would look around. It just, it was a weird feeling I didn't like. And, but I remember after the official court date. And in the mail a few weeks later, I got my birth certificate. With, with Tucker on it." ([00:22:09] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2. "And I think if that's so mind-bending and I can't get my head around it, what about the gospel of Jesus Christ? The gospel is the power of God for salvation. Death is conquered and eternal life with God is secured. He catches us impossibly in our sin, in our death, in our despair. He catches us. He heals us. He restores us. He sets us free to relaunch into our new trajectory of life, our new life with Jesus Christ. Impossible." ([00:01:59] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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3. "We co-live with Jesus Christ now. This is the symbolism of baptism. We co-died with Jesus as he died on the cross and paid the price for sins. We die with him. When he rose again, we rise with him. And in that way, we have new life because we participated in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus as he did it. And it's, of course, a huge idea that we can't really get our minds around. But this is what Paul is saying happened. This crazy new reality that really we didn't do, we have access to by grace through faith." ([00:03:21] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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4. "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ. No condemnation, not from God, not from anyone else, because we live in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, as if it were our own. It's hard to remember sometimes, especially when you're going through something. But how important to remember when God says, lovingly, looks into your eyes and says, you are not condemned. I will not condemn you. There's nothing to condemn. You have a clean slate." ([00:04:10] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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5. "The Holy Spirit now, through Jesus, dwells within us, so the righteous requirement of the law is made in us, from the inside out, because the Holy Spirit now lives inside of us. Again, another huge idea that has taken 2,000 years to unpack. What Paul is saying is, is that these are the mechanics. You have now this new spirit, the Spirit of God, the law of the Spirit that will be dictating your life, or in your, in a present in your life in a different way than it was before." ([00:08:48] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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6. "But the truth is, you can't set your mind to something that you don't know. This is Paul's point. You can't set your mind on Jesus without knowing Jesus and this is the big important distinction of church life is that you could know all about Jesus and not know Jesus in the same way that I could probably look you up on Facebook and I could know a lot about you scarily it doesn't mean I know you I don't know you at all." ([00:12:48] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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7. "And that this regenerative experience enables us to set our mind on Christ because now we can know him. Why? Because he dwells within us through the Holy Spirit. And well, you probably know this to be true. You ever have, I know I've had this in my life where, you know, I have friends or family and I'll say something and they will not understand what the heck I'm talking about." ([00:14:54] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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8. "And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit who lives in you. And if you don't know In other words, if the same Spirit that was in Jesus Christ, is now in you, you're going to see some of the same effects of the Spirit. It's the same Spirit at work. That's why we have hope for resurrection." ([00:16:33] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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9. "But it's, this is the surrender part. Yes, there's a new reality. The Holy Spirit now sits in the driver's seat of our lives. Praise God. Which makes everything possible in our new life with Christ. But now we've got to keep surrendering so that we allow the Spirit to take us where he wants us to go. That's like the rest of the Christian life. So there's the regenerative. Now we've got the new resident spirit within us, the Holy Spirit. And now there's the rest. The rest of the Christian life." ([00:20:26] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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10. "And he says now, Paul's saying now, we can be that intimate with God because he's living in us. He has adopted us as his children. I've told you this story before, but I was adopted legally when I was in high school. Even though my stepfather's a father that really. He raised me since I was five. But it wasn't until high school that we made it official. And I thought the weirdest thing, but also the coolest thing. I was always embarrassed by my birth name. And you know, every school year I'd have to try to catch the teacher before class started. Because I didn't want to hear him say the wrong name. Him or her say the wrong name. And then I'd have to correct it. And everybody would look around. It just, it was a weird feeling I didn't like. And, but I remember after the official court date. And in the mail a few weeks later, I got my birth certificate. With, with Tucker on it." ([00:22:09] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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