Finish as Someone Different: Living Resurrection Daily

``Man, what a we keep just keep seeing this pattern. Your old self's dead. Paul keeps saying your old self's dead. So you don't obey to become free, you obey because you are free. As Christians, we don't obey to become free. We obey because we are free. Obedience is not the price of freedom. It's the proof of it. We don't obey God hoping that he's gonna set us free. We obey God because he already has set us free. This flips the whole script. [00:44:56] (30 seconds)  #ObeyBecauseFree

This flips everything because religion says, obey so God will accept you. Religion says that you have to do this or you have to do that, and the more harder that you work and the more things that you do good, then then you know what? God's gonna love you more. Religion is always more, more, more, do, do, do, and God will love, love, love you more. [00:45:25] (28 seconds)  #GraceNotPerformance

And really, it it makes sense because we're we're raised this way. Right? And we can use this excuse as well. It's like in school, some of you I know I didn't do this very well, but some of you did good in school. And so what would happen in schools, it starts off like in the first grade is you do good and what does your teacher start doing? Praising you for how good you're doing. And that feeling of, you know what? I just made somebody happy. I made my teacher happy. My parents are happy. Everybody's happy because I did really good, so I'm just gonna work really hard and and I'm gonna keep working, and the harder I work, the more praise I'm gonna get. And we start to like that. We start to like that praise that we're getting because we're working hard for it. Well, that's what religion that's what so we come to church and we kinda think the same thing. Well, if I just do everything really, really good and I work really, really hard, then God's gonna love me more and he's gonna be more happy with me. So it makes sense that we think that way but the gospel says this, that you're accepted, now live like it. Not because you have to. [00:45:52] (67 seconds)  #LiveAccepted

Jesus didn't rise so that we could just think differently but live the same. Jesus didn't rise from the dead so we could just feel forgiven but stay stuck. Jesus didn't rise from the grave so we could just believe correctly without changing our direction. He rose he rose so our lives would move somewhere new. He rose so we could go somewhere different. [00:35:47] (31 seconds)  #LiveResurrected

We need to make sure that we're walking out the resurrection of Christ every day of our life. Every day, three hundred and sixty five days out of the year, it's something that we walk out as Christians is that we were dead and now we're alive. We were dead and now we're alive and so we walk that out every day. [00:35:26] (21 seconds)  #WalkTheResurrection

Paul says that our old self was crucified with him. That same cross that Christ died on is the same cross that we must die on. This is where we don't repair our old self. We execute our old self. Our old self must die. It's done. It's dead. It's gone. The old is gone. It's what the Bible say. [00:39:44] (30 seconds)  #CrucifyTheOldSelf

This picture is a caterpillar having it looks like a drink with the butterfly. And the caterpillar says, you've changed. And if we know a little bit about science, we know that caterpillars will eventually turn into a butterfly. Correct? So the day before that, we can just assume or use our imagination that both of them were caterpillars having a drink together. But now the next day, the butterfly shows up. That caterpillar says, you've changed, and the butterfly says, we're supposed to. [00:56:27] (41 seconds)  #CaterpillarToButterfly

We have to stop trying to fix our old self and let that old self die. You can't walk in a new life while clinging to the old graves. You know, we can't have a new life when we keep digging up old bones. [00:40:40] (18 seconds)  #BuryTheOldSelf