Wilderness Forty – Ecdysis

So today we talk about something called, most of us haven't heard this word before and it's

not Greek, pronounced, exusis, which is not a Greek word, it's not found in the Bible.

I thought why not act a little educated.

Exusis, wilderness 40, today's title is exusis.

Exusis is the process of molting.

It's the process of molting, a shedding of the old to fully reveal the new.

We talked about how the Holy Spirit has led us into the desert, the Holy Spirit led us

into the desert so that we may have a greater revelation of God, so that we may return with

power and so that we may be ready to restore desolate heritages and prove ourselves an

essential service in the post-COVID landscape that awaits.

That is the intent of wilderness 40.

And today we talk about this word, exusis, which is basically this idea or the process

of molting or a shedding of the old to fully reveal the new.

It is not taking on the new, it is shedding the old so that the new may be revealed.

And you see a lot of desert creatures that go through this process where they shed an

old skin and then the new emerges.

It's not that the new wasn't there, it is that the old had to be shed.

And so molting is necessary for both growth and transformation.

In the case of a butterfly, it's required for transformation.

You literally have to shed the old cocoon to emerge as a butterfly.

So molting is necessary for both growth and transformation.

And strangely enough, the way it takes place or what happens is there's an intake of water

and an intake of air and it splits the old covering.

I'm drawing parallels here, but one of the easiest ways for us to molt, as in shed what

is old and come into the new, is to engage in an intake of water, and I'm comparing

that to the word, and an intake of air, which I'm comparing to the Holy Spirit who is known

as Numa or Rua, so that the outer covering breaks.

But unfortunately, in most of our lives, this process is unfinished.

In most of our lives, both sitting here and in Christianity in general, this process of

molting is unfinished and so it traps us between two spiritual phases.

So half of us is new, half of us is still stuck in the old because the molting is incomplete.

And so today what I want to talk about is, okay, in the desert, before we come out, is

it possible to once and for all shed the old to fully reveal the new?

Shed the old to fully reveal the new?

That's what we'd be talking about.

Guys, it's a shame that my mind identifies more with my old self even though it no longer

lives.

It is a shame that my mind identifies more with my old self even though it actually no

longer lives.

Galatians 2, verse 20 and 21 says, I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.

Galatians 2:20

Yet more often than not on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, it's a shame that my mind

more with my old self when it no longer lives.

In actuality, I must identify myself completely with Christ.

In actuality, I must identify completely with Christ.

But I don't.

I find it easier to identify with the old self, with the old Jacob.

When I say identify with Christ, identify with what about Christ?

Identify with the fact that he is perfect in all his ways.

Identify with the fact that he is amazingly holy.

Identify with the fact that he is the image of God, the radiant image of God.

Identify with the fact that he is intimately located in the Father's perfect love.

Identify with the fact that he is located in the Father's presence.

Identify with the fact that he is at the Father's right hand.

So let's look at all what we said.

We said, one, he is perfect in all his ways.

These are the things we are identifying with, perfect or righteous in all his ways.

We said he's amazingly holy.

We said he is the radiant image of God.

We said that he is intimately located in the Father.

We said he is intimately located in the love of the Father, the perfect love of the Father.

We said he's intimately located in the perfect love and presence of the Father.

We said he's intimately located in the perfect love and presence of the father at his right hand.

other things, just some of the things that I could immediately think of that

we need to identify with. Because if we did identify with these things then you

would find that you no longer are continuing to hold on to old skin which

should have molted by now but in most Christians cases and in all our cases I

would say to you it hasn't molted. If I began to identify with Christ I would

find that huh it's not too often that I think of myself really as perfect or

righteous I only do that occasionally when I'm singing or when it's an

absolute need. I would not see myself as amazingly holy and yet Galatians 2.20 says

I no longer live I have been crucified with Christ I no longer live but Christ

lives in me. I rarely see myself as the image of God. I rarely see myself as

being intimately located with the Father intimately in his presence

intimately at his right hand intimately in his perfect love the same privileges

that Jesus enjoys are actually mine. This is not how we think. It is not how we

think. If we thought like this our worship our prayers our attitudes with

sin our attitudes towards righteousness our attitudes towards each other's our

emotions our interests would be so radically different than what it is

right now but somehow we are caught between these two spiritual phases one

of the new and one of the old and it leaves us neither here nor there and if

I'm going to return from this desert I want to return having taken care of this

so that my mind is thinking a certain way and is going towards the default of

thinking a certain way. Any questions?

These are just some of the things I identified about Christ there are more

you can write your own list. Is this how you think of yourself? I'd suggest no.

It's one thing to say oh I'm positionally like this or whatever other

word you want to use it's another thing to think like this to breathe to inhale

and exhale it. So if you go to Ephesians 4 verse 22 to 24 and let's just read it

Ephesians 4:22–24

from the passion version Ephesians 4 22 to 24 see what it says

Ephesians 4 22 to 24 and he has taught you to let go of the lifestyle of the

ancient man the old self life which was corrupted by sinful and deceitful

desires that spring from delusions. Now it's time to be made new by every

revelation that's been given to you and to be transformed as you embrace the

glorious Christ within as your new life and live in union with him for God has

recreated you all over again in his perfect righteousness and you now

belong to him in the realm of true holiness. So my new self and it's a real

new self it actually exists my new self is actually created as in recreated when

I got born again my new self was recreated and has therefore the

righteousness or the right standing or the right ways or the perfect ways of

God it has the holiness of God and it is made it's renewed in the image or the

nature of the creator or another word for this would be likeness. This is who

I really am. This is who I really am. Pastors may remind you you are not I may

remind you you are not you may remind yourself you're not your spouse may

remind you you are not the world may remind you you're not when you look in

a mirror you may be reminded that you're not your present conduct and behavior

does not seem to carry this through but in reality in terms of who I actually am

my new self which God recreated when I got born again has righteousness has

holiness and has the very likeness of God this is truly who I am. If I don't

believe and embrace what has happened to me and I have not yet I have these

moments when I do. Strange thing is I only think like this after having sinned

if I thought like this before I sinned I would not sin but I think like this

after I've sinned so that I can make myself feel better. This was not a feel

better clause that God added this was a this is who you are clause that God

added. If I don't begin to embrace and believe what has happened to me and who

I have become in Christ then life will be pockmarked with guilt and accusation

and insecurity. If I don't believe and embrace what has happened to me and who

I have become in Jesus Christ and by Christ then my life will be pockmarked

by guilt by accusations of the enemy of myself of people around me and of

insecurity because it is very hard sometimes to stand before God without

being who he has made you. The passion version of verse 23 in Ephesians says

now it is time to be made new by every revelation that's been given to you. I

would suggest to you that this teaching is not is an old revelation that can

make you new. This teaching is an old revelation there's nothing new. This has

been in the Bible for centuries. It's an old revelation that can make you new by

having you think a certain way and I pray God that over the span of the next ten

days that you really attempt to make this your default way of thinking. It is

not that you aren't already new it is that you need to molt and leave the old

skin behind in the desert before you come out of the wilderness into a post

covid landscape. The thing with revelation is guys if you just write it

down and don't begin to ask the Holy Spirit to let it sink deep revelation

turns into information. The thing with revelation is once it is received you

have to then begin to think it you have to play around with it, dig into it,

ponder on it, meditate on it, find out scriptures that support it. That is how

revelation becomes flesh the word becomes flesh otherwise the word becomes

knowledge and knowledge becomes information and it puffs up and so it's

good for a sermon. So my question is why can't I inhale and exhale the righteous

life I already possess? Why is it that I'm not inhaling and exhaling the

righteous life I already possess? Why is it that I can't hear his

life-giving I am pleased with you son voice? Why is it that I'm always striving

to be righteous and always striving to please him? Why is it that it's always a

cart before the horse? Why is it that Jacob is always striving to be righteous

and always striving to please him? Why is it instead that Jacob can't inhale and

exhale the righteousness that he already possesses and the life-giving I am

pleased with you son voice that is always hovering over his head? I mean

wouldn't it be more natural than striving to be righteous and pleasing? If

I'm already something wouldn't it be natural to live that out?

Whenever truth takes deep root in your life, whenever you clear the undergrowth

and you allow truth to take deep root in your life then you will find that weeds

struggle to grow. Whenever you remove the undergrowth, whenever you

clear the undergrowth and you let truth take deep root in your life in any area

you will find that weeds struggle to grow. At some point I remember in my life

the undergrowth with regard to sickness and disease was cleared and this truth

took deep root that Jesus Christ heals and he loves healing. He's Yahweh Rafa and

you can trust him to heal you every time. At some point in the first year of my

Christian life it took deep root and when it took deep root the weeds of

disease and sickness now find for the last 31-32 years very hard to grow.

Somewhere in the first two years of my life as a believer here is a truth that

took deep root that God is before anything else a father, that he is your

Abba, that he is your father. Relate to him as father Jacob and you will solve a

major portion of your life in that one truth being embedded deeply in your heart

and somehow along the line by the grace of God it happened and it has been one

of the most powerful truths in my life that God is father and it is seen in my

conversations, in my leading, in my worship, in my teaching it'll come across

again and again. Why? Because now the weeds of servitude or not being a son or

God being sovereign and like a flippant or doing whatever he wants without being

a father is gone forever. I can never think like that. When truth takes deep

root weeds struggle to grow. If this truth takes deep root the weeds of an

old self will struggle to grow. It'll be very difficult.

Any questions?

Any questions guys?

No? Everyone's eating happily? Can look across the room. Yes I see someone

eating there. Yes I see someone eating there. Thank you sister. I see someone

eating there. You want to be eating? Come.

The essence of this new life is not mine. The essence in its in its in its

essence this new life is not mine because it's the anointed one living his

life through me. The essence of this new life the essence of this new life is not

mine. The essence of this new life it's not mine. It is the life of the anointed

one being lived through me. It is the it is the life of the anointed one being

lived through me and therefore we as in he and I live in union as one. We live in

union as one. It's such a beautiful truth that I at this present moment in time I

Jacob I'm living in union with someone else. That the essence of the life that

you presently see both the animated physical life the mental spiritual

emotional relational life because you can't clinically separate life and say

this belongs to Christ Christ of Exist. No this life that you see me living in

its essence it's not mine it is the life of the anointed one who actually lives

through me and therefore we live in union Jesus and I live in union as one.

It would be like say Aaron selling his house for 200 bucks or 2,000 bucks or a

thousand bucks. Let's say Aaron sells his house for a thousand bucks and he comes

and buys my apartment for a hundred bucks and then even though the apartment

belongs to him he gives me the keys to the apartment and says it's yours I've

bought it for you even though the title deed is mine here it's yours and by the

way I sold mine for a thousand so here's a 900 extra that I got that's yours too

and then having done that he stands on the outside and he doesn't come in and

he waits for me to let him in and if I do he now begins to live with me and we

live in union in the house that he bought by paying off by selling off his

house. It's literally like that it is someone who has bought me and then having

bought me given me the keys to my house even though he holds the title deed and

then stand outside and knock and said can I come in and if he comes in

then he and I begin to live in union. That's how this works but we live in

union Jesus and I live in union as one which is why sin grieves which is why

any collision with sin impacts him which is also why I can draw now from the only

life I actually possess and begin to reflect his interest his emotions his

attitudes. You have to wrap your head around this because if you don't you

will never be able to escape the part of the old skin that will stick to you

forever. It's like a creature that has old mold stuck to him forever. You can't

shake it off because you never did it when we begin. It's a terrible way to live

and we live more than half the day. I mean we live three-quarters of every day

in two spiritual faces never fully free.

I'm getting texts from other countries saying please use black or blue pen on

the board while preaching. For our international audience I'll have to

shift to black pen.

Could the pen director get me a black pen? Pen director sorry sorry pen director

sorry that just I don't know what happened they just called out to you.

Could you could you just focus the camera on him Manoj pen director?

Okay so the essence of this life is not mine. Any questions guys any questions? So

I live this life that is in mine by sheer unswerving faith in the one who

loved me and died for me. I live this life that is not mine. What a crazy thing

has happened when you got born again eh? I live this life that is not mine by

sheer unswerving faith in the one who loved me and died for me. I'm just quoting

scripture Galatians 221. The life that I now live I live by faith in the one who

loved me and died for me and the strange thing is he in turn thrills at my love.

He as in God thrills at my love for him and even though he knows my love for him

is imperfect yet he also knows its birth from faith. John 20 verse 29 Jesus

John 20:29

turned around to his Thomas and said to Thomas you believe because you have seen

blessed are they that believe even though they have not seen. You don't know

what a big ask it is. You don't know how thrilled God is that you without having

seen him believe him and love him.

Any questions? You know the thing is you know these truths so I'm not telling you

anything new if you've been for Christ's life you already know these truths. It's

just that it hasn't translated into 24-7 everyday living because if it did I

would see it.

My thought life must support the reality of my new nature. My thought life must

support the reality of my new nature. My thought life as in it is here that I

don't think like that right. In my spirit I may know this occasionally I might

read scripture and I remember it. We did this teaching in 2015 and 2017 so we

could remember it from then not this teaching about renewing but my thought

life must support the reality of my new nature and it usually does not so I have

to train my thought life to support this reality. Your thought life has to be

trained. Part of the weaponry in 2nd Corinthians 10 is to pull out pull down

strongholds yes but part of the weaponry in 2nd Corinthians 10 is also so that

you would pull down some of these strongholds in your own life. Different

ways you can look at it. Oh shucks I think I've... password works. Fitting every

loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by

Christ. Fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure

of life shaped by Christ. Fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse

into the structure of life shaped by Christ. I'm supposed to do that so that

my thought life supports my new nature.

So that my thought life supports my new nature. Fitting every loose thought and

emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ.

Guys once you begin to live like this it's almost like having a clean house. A

clean house is easier to keep clean. A clean house is easier to keep clean. Once

your house is clean and all the things from under the bed and over the cupboard

is removed and someone comes and does this amazing cleaning job of your house

when you enter it is easier to keep it clean. Man I remember when I was a kid

my sister used to insist on cleaning my room. On one hand I would be very

thankful on the other hand it would be dreadful because once she cleaned the

room I couldn't do anything in that room. Like I couldn't drop a piece of paper I

couldn't sit on the bed because if I sat on the bed the bedsheet would wrinkle. I

could not sit on the chair because then the chair would move. So once you cleaned

it it had to be left absolutely clean. So that's that's not where I'm going.

What I'm trying to say because I think she's listening. What I'm trying to say

is it is easier to keep a clean room clean and that is this idea of having my

thought life support the reality of my new nature and once I begin to think

like that you will find that it is very natural for you to continue down that

road. Your new normal is your new nature. Your new normal is not sinless living.

Every time you don't sin you think it's wonderful. No it's just normal. So here's

an example for instance on one hand to say you have sinned is true. On one hand

to say that you have sinned is true but to say I am free of sin is truer still.

This is what I mean by the new nature. Yes on one hand you can say I have sinned

and it is true but to say I'm free of sin is truer still because that is the

reality. It's just an example. Just think of this thought guys when God looks at

me he sees his image. When God looks at me he sees and this is not a grace

message. I'm not going down the path of grace right now. Leave alone hyper grace.

I'm just saying when God looks at the real me he sees his image. It's like

looking into a pool of water and he sees his image. Why? Because he sees someone

who has been recreated in his likeness, in his righteousness, in his holiness.

This is not for his sake that I'm stating this fact. I'm stating it so that

you really begin to grasp 24-7 the actual condition of your life and

therefore then to have him look at you and have to work his way through what is

distortion of sin ceases to exist because you begin to love who you are.

Don't you hate it when you sin? Isn't there a natural hatred now as a believer

when you now begin to sin or say something wrong or have an attitude

that is poisonous? Isn't it natural for you to hate it? It is also natural for

you to love who you are because of what you've become and because of what he's

done. And the more you love something that way the more you will guard it and

live it. It gives you a freedom to run. I'm saying that you need to begin to think

like this so that when you come out of the desert this is already becoming

a way of thinking for you. What will be the effect of it? You'll find as being

holier and holiness always shows. Holiness shows by unholiness being

exposed. Holiness shows by just a passion that is very different. It is impossible

to have zeal and passion for God without holiness. So rather than drum up that

zeal and passion without holiness, the zeal and passion now becomes an outgrowth

of your holiness. In your attitudes, in your interests, in your emotions we'll

talk about that. You can draw all that from Christ because of what he's done.

Thing is guys I'm making up my mind that I can't keep going back on this because

it repudiates God's grace. Paul put it this way, I will not receive God's

grace in vain. And so I am deciding that father this is not going to be a

teaching that is great but it is going to be something that I will not go back

on because I have gone back on this before. I want this to be the most

natural thing for me as natural as hearing, as natural as expecting you to

heal, as natural as calling you father. I want this to be as natural as that. I

want this truth so deep in my life that it is inviolable, non-negotiable, normal.

So I don't want to go back on this because it repudiates God's grace. This

is why we end up viewing grace as peripheral because we're so not into the

habit of inhaling and exhaling righteousness and holiness. We are so

not in the habit of continuously seeing the cloud with the writing on it that

hovers over your head which says I am pleased with you. Instead we are so caught

up, the focus is more on I must please God, I must be righteous because I love

him. Nothing wrong with that, it's a good thing but the platform that you

stand on before you do that is different.

This is how the Holy Spirit wants me to think. I must renew my mind, I must renew

the mind of the Spirit, I must renew the Spirit of my mind, I must renew the Spirit of my mind

by putting on the mind of the Spirit. I must renew the Spirit of my mind or in

other words I must renew the thinking that I do with my mind by putting on

the thinking of the Spirit. I must renew the Spirit of my mind by putting on the

mind of the Spirit.

Yeah I want to try that pumpkin thing next week and an extra shot on top of

that. Yeah hey I'm not speaking fast today, I even took some of, May brought Jane some

black cold coffee and so I poured half of that into this. But you got enough right?

Yeah plus you're eating a lot sitting there so it's all good because sister

the kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking but about righteousness,

peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. About the scripture yeah 1st Corinthians 420.

Yeah guys so then when we go down this road and begin to talk like this the

question is isn't there a place for dealing with sin? Isn't there a place

for correction? Shouldn't there be rebuke? Shouldn't there be the need to

judge oneself? Shouldn't one express godly sorrow for sin? Shouldn't one

repent? Shouldn't one be disciplined? Yes but after establishing the reality of

this truth all those things are not sidelined they're an active part of our

lives. There is the need for discipline, there is the need for repentance, there

is the need for correction, there is the need to rebuke, there is the need to

judge oneself, there is the need for godly sorrow. All these are absolutely

important Christian principles that must be used in life but they must find

their place after establishing the reality of the above truth. If you don't

establish this truth then that is the forest that you keep getting lost in but

you establish this truth and it becomes so much easier. I mean on Oculus Quest

there's a game called Ricky's Plank so it's like I've said it's walking this

plank and it's a 47 story fall but if you want you can take two hand vacuum

like things and hold them and they're actually jet packs so even if you fall

you can turn them on and so you don't fall you start zooming around with those

jet packs. Jeevan didn't have the packs he didn't know the packs exist. Rhonda

had the packs but we have a video of her just sitting down on the floor because

she doesn't want to move. So the point is guys once you have this truth even if

you fall off you do not crash you have the ability to keep moving. If this truth

is not established then sin and righteousness is like mountain and valley

up one day down the other day three good days four bad days we got to end this

man. God has provided you a way to live the other side should become abnormal

for us right now for most Christians sinning is normal and living righteousness

is the struggle. I should get to a place where living righteousness is my joy my

passion easy peasy Japanese lemon squeezy and it is fun and then no that was

it came out but it's too late now to withdraw it and so and so now that

you've gotten there you've got to it has to become so normal to you that sin

seems odd sin becomes an occasional thing which you don't even enjoy.

Any questions?

Any questions? Sorry? Yes. Any questions guys? Okay so given who lives now through

me and given with whom I live in union as one I love that idea. I was telling

him this morning father do you realize that you and me live in union as one

that's pretty amazing eh? Which makes you possessive of him in a very protective

sense even though he doesn't need protection it would be like if Sheldon

handed you Phoebe or Subin handed you Danny and he's in your arms and now you

get a little more protective because you want to keep the child safe here it's

that kind of a feeling though God does not need your protection but but you and

him begin to live in union as one the life that you presently have is not

yours it is in essence the anointed one living through you and given that here

are some important statements that we need to realize are real. I have an

umbilical bond with Jesus I have an umbilical bond with Jesus in that he

shares his ascended life in the father's presence with me. This is not a

Jesus of Nazareth life this is the life of the risen Christ this is what Jesus

Paul used to refer to as the resurrection life it's an umbilical bond

with Jesus it's a it's an unbreakable connection why because I'm not talking

about a telephone line I'm not talking about hearing I'm not talking about

being able to pray or I'm connected with God no no no no this is life itself that

Jacob has he has because he has this cord that connects him not to his mother

in this case but to his father through Christ brought to me by the Spirit and

and I share I share as him as an I'm a co-sharer there's nothing that is held

back I share fully there's nothing that is held back I share as an equal partner

his ascended life his risen life that life that is insurmountable that life

that is all conquering that life that death cannot affect sin cannot affect

Satan cannot affect that life that is insurmountable that life that is

impervious to anything evil that life that is right in the father's presence

that life which is life-giving that what life which flows that life that only

knows intimacy with the father that very life I share as a co-equal partner

with Christ and it is all that I have it is the only thing I have it is the only

thing I have it is the only thing I have why am I settling for something else what

am I settling for I'm settling for physical life when when who I really am

is so much more superior once my thought life begins to support this reality it

will be very hard for me to feel abandoned because I am constantly

located in his intimacy in his presence it'll be very hard for me to be afraid

because I'm located in his perfect love it is very hard for me to think that I

cannot overcome because I'm seated at the right hand of Christ above all

powers it'll be very hard for me not to hear or to think that I will not hear or

to feel that God doesn't care or to feel that I'm not at the center of his

affection all these things will begin to fall away like those science fiction

movies where someone is made up of some kind of a matrix and he begins to crumble

or sand it just falls and there's a lump of sand at your feet it's literally like

that all those things being a crumble when this happens this is not a good

place to go to because all your prayers of abandonment of oh God why have you

forsaken me oh Lord you have left me oh Lord you don't care oh Lord you don't

love oh Lord let me write a song about being crushed all those things will now

be over you won't be able to go down that route anymore

okay another example of I have it is true that I have sinned but it's true

as still that I am free from sin another one

yeah I'm just trying to find one way I can substantiate in the scripture I walk

here on earth and yet it is yes it is true that I walk here on earth but it

is true as still that I am seated with Christ in heavenly places it is true as

still let me let's try another one

I may have no it may look like I have no protection here seemingly unprotected on

my own but my life is actually hidden in Christ who is seated at the right hand

of God I'm just picking up scripture Colossians 3 Ephesians 2 7 let's think of

another one yeah when it comes to sickness I know that at present I may be

displaying the sign of such and such a sickness but I also know that I was

healed by the stripes that Christ bore it is in the past tense most of these

things because of the simple words that Jesus spoke on the cross it is finished

most of the things have been registered into the past and you lived live what he

has done in the present yeah Jeevan cool so I have an umbilical bond with Jesus

in that he shares his ascended life with me a life in the Father's presence

insurmountable impervious to sin this is the beauty of it my life is impervious

to sin sin cannot surmounted sin cannot overpower it it cannot neither can Satan

knock and death here's another one I love this one I've been practicing it I

can draw my emotions my interests my attitudes my attitudes from him from

Christ for his private life is fully mine ah such a cool sentence we think

God is a public domain God as in one of those celebrities who get reported on

every newspaper every magazine not really he was absolutely private and he

was happy being private till he decided that he would display himself publicly

first through the prophets and the teachers and then through his son Jesus

Christ and then through the body but there's there's still such an infinite

depth of his life that can be plumbed by his children if you are still trying to

figure out who your spouse's or who your children are who your parents are

imagine dealing with an infinite God and I love the fact that I can today begin

to draw my emotions as in my even my emotional response to things expressed

through my unique personality I can draw my emotions from his private life because

his private life this life that Christ holds is now fully mine I am my beloved

and my beloved is mine I can draw my emotions from it I can draw my interest

from it the strange thing is all a myriad personalities all a myriad

interests have been created by a God who is a reservoir of all these interests

emotions attitudes and then he gives some to you give some to me give some

to another I threw my present personality can still draw my emotions

from him why because it is the anointed one that is living through me and he and

I are in union with one another in this life I can draw my interests from him I

can draw my attitudes from him because his private life has become mine it'd be

like you know they do this often it's one of those rather than give you a

million dollars there are people who will give a million dollars to spend six

hours with Warren Buffett or Bill Gates why because they get to sit with those

people across the table sipping coffee and trying to delve into their minds

dig up things hoping that they can be the next billionaire usually doesn't

happen it's just your dinner gets paid for but the point is this that you get

to spend one-on-one private time with someone who's just brilliant at what they

do the Oracle of Omaha Omaha Omaha anyways the point being this that at the

end of the day I get to now draw from the private life of God himself my

business interests my emotions my attitudes can be drawn from him and he's

got them crafted and ready for me any questions

how do I get to follow all this who makes it possible all this is made

possible because of the life that is fully imparted to me by the Holy Spirit

the Holy Spirit imparts this to me first Corinthians 2 verse 12 to 16 talks

1 Corinthians 2:12–16

about this first Corinthians 2 12 to 16 then listen you guys are spiritual

people you guys have the ability to get into knowing the things of God that

others wouldn't know for we did not receive the spirit of the world system

but the spirit of God so that we might come to understand and experience all

that grace has lavished upon us we articulate these realities with words

important imparted to us by the spirit we join together spirit revealed truths

with spirit revealed words someone living on an entirely human level

rejects these revelations for they make no sense to him but those who live in

the spirit are able to carefully evaluate all things the Holy Spirit

brings all these truths to me here's another one in him I belong to an age

to come in him in him in him I belong to an age to come belong to an age to come

and can enjoy

many of the benefits now

and ascribe to its standards

in him as an in Christ because he belongs to a kingdom that already exists and is

going to come in Christ I now belong to an age that is yet to come but I can

already start enjoying some of these benefits some of its benefits the world

will see him one day I already see him today the world will have bodies that are

healed I get to have my body healed today the world will call him Lord and

father one day I already have him as Lord and father the world will have

answers one day I already have answers from him in him I belong to an age to

come and I can enjoy it some of its benefits now ask yourself do you ask

yourself whether it's an active part of your daily living I must enjoy today the

benefits of the age to come contentment healing forgiveness of sins comfort

peace ridiculous joy life giving of life pouring out the spirit receiving the

spirit love kindness faith invisible realities become with becoming visible

isn't this what a Christian life is composed of and shouldn't it be

something that I yearn to both experience and express so that the world

can see the invisible kingdom through a visible Jacob so I both get to enjoy it

and then I ascribe to its standards so that the standards are not prescribed to

me by the systems around me I'm marvel at the fact that the grace of God is

sufficient in a time of dire need people losing jobs COVID for six months that

most people at acts 29 have been doing well it is a sheer gift of God when

ministries are crying out for money and are scared that they will lose

attendance we have to keep people away

here's another one in his death it's very similar to this point in his death

I have been severed from the old world order and its dominion in his death I

have been severed in his death I have been severed from the old world order

and its dominion think like this think like this I've been severed from the old

world dominion that the way the world system works is not what dominates me

they are in the world but they are not off it Oh God that was his prayer father

I leave them in the world but they're not off it they live to a different beat

all this is possible on one hand by externally trying to follow it but what

if we actually took to heart that I have come into union with him and he and I

are now one he the anointed one lives his life through me and we live in union

as one we live in union as one man if just that truth thinks it that I live in

union with him as one I'd be so circumspect in the way I did things

because the fact is guys we love him the fact is we love him and then when these

truths come in love gets shape or form or substance we love him last point his

power has seated me with him his power has seated me with him says so in

Ephesians 1 verse 22 to 26 that his power has seated me with him his power

has seated me with him under kindness and grace and above powers his power has

seated me with him under his kindness and grace but over other powers I love

how Ephesians 2 7 puts it I have seated you in heavenly places so that in this

age and in the ages to come I can shower you with my grace through the kindness

that Christ has shown you and I also want you to know that I have seated you

far above powers and principalities so this is another reality that happens

because of this new self that I have that I am seated with him by his

exertion of power I am seated with him presently and I sit under great grace

and kindness every day for the rest of eternity but I also sit above powers and

principalities and authorities in every name that has been named one of the

things that I'm convinced of and it has been this way for long but this teaching

just reinforced it is this idea that because I am in Christ and Christ is in

me and he's intimately located in the presence and the perfect love of the

father on his right hand I unfortunately can no longer claim that God is not

hearing me in instead I know that every time I speak God hears me that I will

only leave his presence when Christ leaves his presence that the only way I

can exit his presence the only way I can be absent from the father is if

Christ exits the father's presence and is absent from the father but he was

absent one to be forever present and therefore I will not have a moment of

absence that I will be forever present that my words are always heard that

there's nothing that happens in my life that isn't actually playing out before

him that before I speak or before it even happens he is there and he is

waiting no more than anything else my new self has a righteousness holiness

and likeness of God it is really who I am why can't I inhale and exhale this

righteous life that I already possess under his life-giving I am pleased with

you son voice and if I don't my life will be pockmarked with guilt with

accusation with insecurity ah you don't know how liberating it is

I abandoned when I when I don't live this way I abandoned what can free me to

live that song which says I'm free to live I'm free to run I'm free to dance

it's not because of praise music it is because of this it frees me to live this

was what I was born for this was what I was recreated for this is the most

natural thing for a son of the father please see if you can let it sink in let

it go deep in so that weeds will not grow weeds will struggle to grow I

abandoned the freedom that I have to run free I abandoned the ability to run free

and it should be something that should be so natural to sonship running free I

just want to sing a song that we had written ages ago that kind of brings in

this truth so I'll ask Chris to play the piano what is this supposed to do like

other than hide my face makes my singing sound nicer

is this on sorry Diana you said something

oh they don't need to see they'll see on the board oh no no Chris doesn't need

over he doesn't even know it's on

has now ceased to exist terminated on the cross I've seen from my own for it I

know long live my striving is that I stand fast in the liberty for which

Christ has set me free I love the spirit of life and Christ I will walk in his

life I live the life of another father's life I used to live has now ceased to exist

terminated at the cross one last time from the beginning I live the life of another father

I used to live has now ceased to exist terminated at the cross