Resting in God's Covenant: Freedom Through Christ

1. "We need to have our eyes open to see the tree of life. God is for us, He's not against us. He's made a way where there wasn't a way. What the law could not do, He has done. And He's completed it, and we need to rest in And in the night in which Christ was betrayed, He took the bread, and giving thanks, He blessed it, and then He broke it. And He said these words, this is my body, broken for you. You." [15:23] (25 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "My relationship with Jesus is not achieved it is received as a result of that I am and forever attend attend not based on comparing myself to anyone but based on the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ I am in right standing with God hear this this is absolutely so important that we need to hear this my relationship with God is established in a covenant that God made on my account it is established based on the principles or the precepts that I'm willing to obey or able to obey it is not built on my ability it is built on God's ability in Jesus Christ this is a covenant that God made through the shed blood of Jesus Christ I am and will be forever attend" [39:20] (64 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "The Bible says that when we were at our worst, God gave his very best. While we were still in sin, God did for us what we did not deserve. You with me? It is a covenant relationship that God himself has established with you, but apart from you doing. Oh boy. Listen, this is so important because I know that there are people in this room that are struggling and struggling and struggling and doing and clicking and getting entangled with things and into stuff because you don't have the freedom Christ has brought to you." [42:20] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "It was for freedom that Christ set you free. Did you get that? He wants you not living in captivity. He wants you living in freedom. The freedom that knows that I am blessed of God, that everything I put my hand to, God is going to prosper, that God is going to give, and God wants to bless me more than I want to be blessed. But I don't have to be subject again to a yoke of slavery. I've begun by faith and I will end in faith. It starts with grace, it ends with grace, and it's all grace in between. And by the way, grace is a person, and the person is Jesus Christ." [55:08] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "You fall from grace when you try to do what's already been done. Look, that's captivity. Man, I don't know. I don't know. I'm preaching myself. But here's the thing. God wants us to build an altar. He wants us to build an altar that is his design, not our design. It says in Romans chapter 12, Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. You think, wait a minute, wait a minute. That sounds like I'm doing. No, you're not doing. You're basically, all this is saying is, that you got to the end of yourself, and you know that in your flesh, you can't do what he's already done, and so you put yourself, and you put that flesh, which is now holy and acceptable to God, on an altar, and you stop getting off of it. That's where freedom is." [59:26] (53 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "Holiness is understanding who you are positionally in God and being saved, not from activity, but from misidentification. Please hear this. If you try to change the activity without changing your identity, you end up in the futility of someone who's going after the fruit and has never addressed the root. See, the fruit is your behavior. The root is your identity. And Jesus has come to save us from misidentification, that we are children of the Most High, that he is for us and not against us." [01:01:38] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "The challenge is, is that we have to have this flesh and we put our confidence in Christ, not ourselves. And it's a fight of faith, to stay in faith and to believe that God is with me, God is for me, that when bad things happen, listen, it could be that I did a self-inflicted wound, but even this, he will cause it to work for good. He can give what the locusts have eaten, and he will give back what the locusts have eaten. And I know that my God can, I know that my God will, because my God already has, and I'm going to rest in God my Savior. That's the challenge, to stay in faith." [01:02:19] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "There's somebody in this room, you've been living in bondage for such a long time, and you have such a misidentification of who you truly are. You identify with a behavior. You are not the behavior. You are a child of God. And when you believe that you're a child of God, he will take care of the behaviors. Oh man, I hope people hear this. We get on sin. Stop that. Start this. Can't you just stop doing that? And the truth is, I couldn't. If I could, I would. But I can't. And the only way that I can is to not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of my mind that I am a child of God, that he loves me, that he's for me." [01:03:22] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "When you trust in Jesus, when you fully trust in Jesus, you know it says, many will come to me on that day. Jesus said these words, many, many will come to me on that day. And they're going to give a resume. And they're going to say, I, I did this, and I did this, and I did this. And Jesus will say, depart from me, I never knew you. Because they came on the basis of themselves. But wasn't I pleasing? Look at my resume, I was pleasing. And I lived in this house of captivity, where I had to wear a mask, and I had to fake it, and I just talked Christianese, and I patted people on the back, and they patted me on the back, and they thought I had it all together, but inside, man, I was dying. But when you got on the path of trusting God, it led to the house of grace, where nobody had to wear a mask." [01:06:09] (55 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "Rest finds grace. When you rest from your striving, when you rest from your doing, when you rest, when you take the posture of an Abraham, who is sleeping while God is working, you need to know that God works even while you sleep. That God is for you. He is an ever present help. He loves you. Thank God. Thank God it's not up to us. Amen? Do you understand? Now, how many of you today would say, you know what? I think I've been running with some wrong information and I feel kind of like I've been living in a little bit of captivity because I've been putting myself in this equation with God and it really has been leading to something that I'd really less than what I anticipated it to be. And today, man, this is speaking to me today." [01:08:12] (48 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)