WEBVTT 00:02.461 --> 00:25.043 [SPEAKER_00]: High Praise Podcasts. 00:25.023 --> 00:26.725 [SPEAKER_00]: Grab your Bible going to Romans chapter six. 00:26.745 --> 00:29.549 [SPEAKER_00]: How many here last week for service on Sunday morning? 00:29.569 --> 00:30.330 [SPEAKER_00]: How many here wave at me? 00:30.711 --> 00:32.934 [SPEAKER_00]: We had a powerful time last week. 00:33.494 --> 00:38.200 [SPEAKER_00]: If you were a first service person, I think we had about five or six people get baptized in first service. 00:38.541 --> 00:43.107 [SPEAKER_00]: And then in second service, it was, it took like two full songs to baptize everybody. 00:43.147 --> 00:47.192 [SPEAKER_00]: We had well over 20 people that got baptized in second service. 00:47.513 --> 00:48.514 [SPEAKER_00]: So it was powerful. 00:48.594 --> 00:50.757 [SPEAKER_00]: Can we just give Jesus a hand for that this morning? 00:50.877 --> 00:51.799 [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely incredible. 00:52.299 --> 00:53.381 [SPEAKER_00]: Powerful, powerful. 00:53.441 --> 00:54.422 [SPEAKER_00]: Powerful. 00:54.402 --> 00:57.926 [SPEAKER_00]: And then we began this series different now. 00:58.026 --> 01:02.510 [SPEAKER_00]: We looked at the life of Peter coming out of Easter, coming out of everything. 01:03.011 --> 01:07.956 [SPEAKER_00]: We weren't made to just experience a day or an event. 01:08.837 --> 01:14.242 [SPEAKER_00]: What Jesus comes to do is to mark our lives and change us. 01:14.463 --> 01:16.244 [SPEAKER_00]: We talked about this on Easter a little bit. 01:16.485 --> 01:17.786 [SPEAKER_00]: Things don't happen to Jesus. 01:17.866 --> 01:19.307 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus happens to things, right? 01:19.728 --> 01:21.810 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is not changed by you. 01:23.275 --> 01:23.756 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 01:23.776 --> 01:29.224 [SPEAKER_00]: If you think you're going to change Jesus, boy, we've got a problem. 01:30.486 --> 01:34.232 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus doesn't change because of you, you change because of Jesus. 01:35.233 --> 01:41.583 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything Jesus touches, changes, not for a moment, but it's intended to change forever. 01:41.623 --> 01:45.529 [SPEAKER_00]: Romans chapter 6 verse 1 says this, what shall we say then? 01:46.310 --> 01:49.255 [SPEAKER_00]: Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 01:50.076 --> 01:51.358 [SPEAKER_00]: Certainly not. 01:51.963 --> 01:55.308 [SPEAKER_00]: How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 01:56.149 --> 02:01.977 [SPEAKER_00]: Or do you not know that as many of us were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 02:02.778 --> 02:14.255 [SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, we were buried with Him through baptism, into death, and that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so, we should also walk in newness of life. 02:14.295 --> 02:15.777 [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody say, newness. 02:16.094 --> 02:18.878 [SPEAKER_00]: you were intended to walk in a new way. 02:19.559 --> 02:25.827 [SPEAKER_00]: For if we've been united together in the lightness of his death, certainly we shall also be in the lightness of his resurrection. 02:26.288 --> 02:35.520 [SPEAKER_00]: Knowing this that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 02:35.872 --> 02:38.438 [SPEAKER_00]: You should no longer be a slave of sin. 02:38.498 --> 02:42.287 [SPEAKER_00]: For he who has died has been freed from sin. 02:42.888 --> 02:52.851 [SPEAKER_00]: Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more, death no longer has dominion over him. 02:53.118 --> 02:58.448 [SPEAKER_00]: For death that he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life that he lives, he lives to God. 02:58.549 --> 03:06.243 [SPEAKER_00]: Likewise, you also reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God and Christ Jesus our Lord. 03:06.804 --> 03:11.734 [SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body. 03:13.351 --> 03:31.174 [SPEAKER_00]: that you should obey it in its lust and do not present your members as instruments of Ron Wright's assistant, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead and your members as instruments of Wright's assistant, God, for sin shall not have dominion over you. 03:31.154 --> 03:34.440 [SPEAKER_00]: for you are not under the law, but under grace. 03:35.121 --> 03:41.131 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot to unpack here in Romans and a lot of different ways we could go and a lot of different things we could talk about. 03:41.452 --> 03:54.073 [SPEAKER_00]: But I really want to this morning kind of laser focus on one thing today whenever we talk about that we are different now, and that is this that you as a believer, 03:54.357 --> 04:04.890 [SPEAKER_00]: as a new covenant, creation, new creation, reborn, are no longer under the dominion of sin. 04:05.056 --> 04:07.880 [SPEAKER_00]: sin no longer has a hold on your life. 04:08.581 --> 04:20.456 [SPEAKER_00]: If you've been made new, if you've been baptized, if you've confessed Jesus as your Lord, you are no longer under the dominion of sin and you can now walk in a new life. 04:20.897 --> 04:24.181 [SPEAKER_00]: You are dead to sin and you are alive to God. 04:25.583 --> 04:29.528 [SPEAKER_00]: Say it again, you are dead to sin and you are alive to God. 04:29.795 --> 04:32.802 [SPEAKER_00]: We hear now, let me give some reference here. 04:32.982 --> 04:36.170 [SPEAKER_00]: We hear words like, we talk about a little bit on Wednesday night. 04:36.230 --> 04:39.077 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're not coming out for Wednesday night services, you need to be here. 04:39.097 --> 04:40.981 [SPEAKER_00]: There's great things that are happening on Wednesday nights. 04:41.001 --> 04:44.850 [SPEAKER_00]: We have incredible, I don't say this to beat myself on the chest, or 04:44.830 --> 04:51.400 [SPEAKER_00]: or necessarily just to gas up any of our other people who preach but we have incredible teaching that goes on on Wednesday nights. 04:51.500 --> 05:08.264 [SPEAKER_00]: On Sunday mornings we really more so preach but on Wednesday night we teach and we go a little bit deeper and we dig in so I want to encourage you to be here on Wednesday nights but we talked about this a little bit whenever we hear things like sin in the church we immediately jump to the bad stuff. 05:08.284 --> 05:08.485 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 05:08.565 --> 05:10.107 [SPEAKER_00]: The stuff nobody talks about. 05:10.127 --> 05:14.213 [SPEAKER_00]: The stuff that no people who attend church have certainly 05:15.256 --> 05:17.078 [SPEAKER_00]: and definitely aren't doing now, right? 05:17.698 --> 05:28.348 [SPEAKER_00]: But when we think of sin that way, now don't get me wrong, a lot of the bad stuff, the gross stuff, the things you're mind, jumps to when we talk about sin, I'm not saying those things aren't sin, okay? 05:28.368 --> 05:29.028 [SPEAKER_00]: Because they are. 05:29.689 --> 05:35.774 [SPEAKER_00]: Almost everything that you're mind jumps to, whenever we say sin and you go, oh gosh, this, this, this, those are in fact sin. 05:37.096 --> 05:43.221 [SPEAKER_00]: But we really need to understand that sin is not defined as something that just grosses you out. 05:43.387 --> 05:48.815 [SPEAKER_00]: right, sin isn't defined as something that just makes you go, I don't want to do that or oh I used to do that but I'm not going to do it anymore. 05:48.835 --> 05:55.724 [SPEAKER_00]: Sin is really, we need to think of it this way, sin is often defined as simply missing the mark. 05:56.806 --> 06:01.573 [SPEAKER_00]: It's falling short of who you're called to be, right? 06:01.593 --> 06:04.296 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a, it's a, a mistake priority. 06:05.598 --> 06:07.521 [SPEAKER_00]: It's an inordinate, 06:08.125 --> 06:13.814 [SPEAKER_00]: desire for something that you shouldn't be desiring as a but new creation believer. 06:14.675 --> 06:18.681 [SPEAKER_00]: If it's falling short of who you are called to be, it's sin. 06:20.163 --> 06:23.749 [SPEAKER_00]: If it's causing you to fall short, it's sin. 06:24.570 --> 06:34.605 [SPEAKER_00]: There are some things that maybe we don't necessarily have black and white inscriptions or thou shalt not, that we can point to and go, well, that's a sin. 06:35.581 --> 06:41.727 [SPEAKER_00]: But if it's making you fall short of who you're called to be, it's sin in your life. 06:41.747 --> 06:46.652 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't have a scripture that says, thou shot not sin in your bed nine hours a day and watch Netflix. 06:50.276 --> 06:50.516 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 06:51.477 --> 06:58.504 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't have a scripture that says, thou shot not be obsessed with TikTok. 06:58.524 --> 07:02.989 [SPEAKER_00]: But I want to propose to you today that if you're bed rotting, 07:04.859 --> 07:08.183 [SPEAKER_00]: is keeping you from becoming, some of y'all have no idea what that is. 07:08.263 --> 07:09.485 [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't know what that is, don't worry about it. 07:09.505 --> 07:09.965 [SPEAKER_00]: Just keep going. 07:12.188 --> 07:28.189 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're bed rotting, if you're scrolling TikTok, if your Netflix obsession is causing you to fall short of who God's called you to be, been partaking in that manner, is a sin in your life. 07:30.532 --> 07:33.195 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, thank you for that overwhelming response this morning. 07:34.255 --> 07:39.782 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to make sure I'm clear, I'm not saying TikTok to sin, I'm not saying Netflix is a sin, okay? 07:39.802 --> 07:44.407 [SPEAKER_00]: I've got Netflix, I've got to take some of y'all to think that is a sin, if you do, I'm sorry, I apologize. 07:45.629 --> 07:47.751 [SPEAKER_00]: I have Netflix, I have Disney+, I have all of it. 07:48.833 --> 07:49.494 [SPEAKER_00]: What service do you have? 07:49.794 --> 07:49.994 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. 07:52.798 --> 07:53.058 [SPEAKER_00]: All right. 07:53.979 --> 07:56.462 [SPEAKER_00]: We got rid of cable because streaming was going to be cheaper. 07:59.486 --> 08:03.030 [SPEAKER_00]: They got us good. 08:05.744 --> 08:14.121 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying that streaming is bad, what I am saying is if that becomes the goal of your life, is to see how much content you can consume. 08:14.461 --> 08:20.273 [SPEAKER_00]: And if it becomes, if you don't read your Bible or you don't pray because you'd rather sit in bed and scroll TikTok. 08:20.513 --> 08:27.567 [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, what I'm listening to Christians on my TikTok, you are getting stuff from eight million streams and it's just confusing you. 08:29.740 --> 08:39.032 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, if we're living in that way, that can be sin in our own lives, because it is keeping us from becoming who God has called us to be. 08:39.332 --> 08:43.858 [SPEAKER_00]: It's falling short, and hear me, you aren't called to live your life with sin controlling you. 08:45.660 --> 08:52.168 [SPEAKER_00]: We, as believers, should be those who reject sin, not because it's Ikie Grossnasty, it's deeper than that. 08:53.330 --> 08:55.873 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't reject sin in order to get Jesus to love us. 08:57.215 --> 08:58.937 [SPEAKER_00]: He loved you whenever you were sinning. 09:00.385 --> 09:06.072 [SPEAKER_00]: The person that you hate the most because you feel like they're a reprobate sinner, Jesus loves them right now. 09:07.374 --> 09:09.596 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not waiting for them to change, to love them. 09:10.798 --> 09:11.979 [SPEAKER_00]: He loves them now. 09:12.560 --> 09:15.223 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus loves people even when they are in their sin. 09:15.283 --> 09:16.545 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what scripture tells us now. 09:16.785 --> 09:19.028 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not our new excuse for you to not come out of your sin. 09:20.870 --> 09:22.833 [SPEAKER_00]: But He loves you still when you're in your sin. 09:23.413 --> 09:26.337 [SPEAKER_00]: It isn't if you do good enough, then Jesus is going to love you. 09:26.357 --> 09:30.342 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus never rejected a sinner. 09:31.064 --> 09:37.592 [SPEAKER_00]: Leave sin, so if we don't leave sin because it's gross, if we don't leave sin in order to get Jesus to love us, then why do we leave sin? 09:38.553 --> 09:42.658 [SPEAKER_00]: Sin is bad because it makes you less than the image bear you are called to be. 09:44.440 --> 09:49.086 [SPEAKER_00]: In the beginning, we were created to be those who were to bear the image of God. 09:49.667 --> 09:54.152 [SPEAKER_00]: In Genesis 1, this is what it says, God didn't create humans because he was bored. 09:55.921 --> 09:58.064 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't create him because he didn't have anything better to do. 09:58.925 --> 10:03.370 [SPEAKER_00]: He created humans because in the earth, he needed something to bear his image. 10:04.472 --> 10:07.956 [SPEAKER_00]: So he created male and female is what it says in Scripture. 10:08.377 --> 10:14.044 [SPEAKER_00]: In his image, in the image of God, he created them and he created them male and female. 10:15.465 --> 10:17.608 [SPEAKER_00]: Being in the image of God. 10:17.842 --> 10:27.754 [SPEAKER_00]: means that we are the creatures, we are the bees, we are the people through whom God's plans and purposes in the earth can be made known and actualized. 10:28.335 --> 10:32.380 [SPEAKER_00]: You were created in His image so that His will could be done in the earth. 10:33.261 --> 10:38.828 [SPEAKER_00]: Sin will keep us from manifesting the good will of God in the earth. 10:38.848 --> 10:41.571 [SPEAKER_00]: It will keep you from representing. 10:42.209 --> 10:44.371 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what it means to be a representative. 10:44.472 --> 10:48.276 [SPEAKER_00]: It's to represent as representatives of Christ. 10:48.536 --> 10:50.839 [SPEAKER_00]: We are called to represent Him in the earth. 10:51.439 --> 10:52.801 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what witnessing is. 10:52.841 --> 10:54.363 [SPEAKER_00]: It is representing Him. 10:55.083 --> 10:55.484 [SPEAKER_00]: He with me. 10:56.545 --> 10:58.848 [SPEAKER_00]: And the enemy wants to make you less than that. 10:59.629 --> 11:01.711 [SPEAKER_00]: He wants to strip us of that ability. 11:02.652 --> 11:05.415 [SPEAKER_00]: And sin is the primary tool that he uses. 11:06.316 --> 11:06.997 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear me. 11:07.157 --> 11:11.642 [SPEAKER_00]: You were never called to walk under the dominion of sin. 11:12.078 --> 11:15.864 [SPEAKER_00]: You were called to live and to walk in holiness. 11:16.705 --> 11:19.951 [SPEAKER_00]: You were called to live and to walk in grace. 11:20.612 --> 11:24.438 [SPEAKER_00]: You were called to live and to walk in the power of the spirit. 11:24.979 --> 11:29.506 [SPEAKER_00]: You were not intended to just be a broken human being who was holding on trying to make it. 11:30.788 --> 11:32.551 [SPEAKER_00]: That's never what you were called to be. 11:32.791 --> 11:34.614 [SPEAKER_00]: That's never what you were intended to be. 11:35.836 --> 11:39.722 [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, this idea is presented all throughout the New Testament. 11:40.073 --> 11:46.920 [SPEAKER_00]: In 1 Peter 1, Peter says, he's actually quoting, but he says, it is written, you shall be holy as I am holy. 11:47.962 --> 11:48.122 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 11:48.142 --> 11:48.762 [SPEAKER_00]: Talk about God. 11:50.164 --> 11:51.946 [SPEAKER_00]: As he's holy, we're to be holy. 11:53.528 --> 11:56.190 [SPEAKER_00]: In Hebrews 12 it says, pursue peace with everyone. 11:57.392 --> 12:00.395 [SPEAKER_00]: And holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 12:01.436 --> 12:07.903 [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, if we want to see the Lord then it's what we're being told here by the writer of Hebrews as we need to 12:09.605 --> 12:11.610 [SPEAKER_00]: Praise God, thank you for that overwhelming response. 12:12.412 --> 12:14.236 [SPEAKER_00]: That we pursue peace with all people. 12:15.359 --> 12:20.251 [SPEAKER_00]: And the church says, pursue peace with everyone, not just people you like, not just people you agree with. 12:20.913 --> 12:21.955 [SPEAKER_00]: I think we were on your team. 12:22.516 --> 12:23.158 [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone. 12:24.455 --> 12:27.538 [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, that's what the new testament says. 12:28.238 --> 12:32.662 [SPEAKER_00]: If we're going to be Christians, we have to believe what the Bible says. 12:33.283 --> 12:40.870 [SPEAKER_00]: And the Bible commands us to pursue peace with everyone and that without holiness, we won't be able to see God. 12:41.430 --> 12:43.332 [SPEAKER_00]: Holiness is still important today. 12:43.672 --> 12:47.035 [SPEAKER_00]: I know these words that I'm using today are some words that make people cringe. 12:47.055 --> 12:54.462 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know some people say they will probably get triggered by it, which by the way, we need to stop being triggered by everything. 12:56.500 --> 12:57.241 [SPEAKER_00]: That triggers me. 12:58.663 --> 13:00.245 [SPEAKER_00]: What you really mean is you don't want to hear it. 13:02.148 --> 13:07.495 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't mean there are people who have actual conditions and disorders and things that they are working through. 13:08.036 --> 13:16.448 [SPEAKER_00]: But we also undermine real things whenever our dumb stuff we excuse is, I want to be able to do what I want to do. 13:16.468 --> 13:18.291 [SPEAKER_00]: So the saying the word holiness triggers me. 13:19.232 --> 13:20.774 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not triggered, you're convicted. 13:24.860 --> 13:26.322 [SPEAKER_00]: All right. 13:27.500 --> 13:28.141 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, praise God. 13:30.123 --> 13:32.045 [SPEAKER_00]: But we get freaked out when we start talking about holiness. 13:32.105 --> 13:36.369 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is one, especially if you're grew up with any sort of pintacostal background. 13:36.529 --> 13:38.211 [SPEAKER_00]: Do we have anybody in the room? 13:39.112 --> 13:40.153 [SPEAKER_00]: I know we have a few. 13:40.173 --> 13:42.415 [SPEAKER_00]: But do we have anybody in the room that grew up? 13:42.576 --> 13:46.500 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean old school pintacostal, where are my people at? 13:46.520 --> 13:48.221 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, there's the hands, right? 13:48.241 --> 13:51.685 [SPEAKER_00]: So whenever I say holiness, y'all are like, I'm out, yo. 13:55.681 --> 13:58.445 [SPEAKER_00]: The ladies are like, I like wearing makeup, I like to cut my hair. 13:59.046 --> 14:01.549 [SPEAKER_00]: And if I want to wear jeans or shorts, I want to be able to. 14:02.210 --> 14:04.513 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not swimming in no dress praise, God. 14:09.340 --> 14:12.244 [SPEAKER_00]: But ever I say holiness, that's exactly where some of us go, right? 14:12.685 --> 14:15.589 [SPEAKER_00]: Or we go with joke about it all the time, but we go movie theater, hell. 14:18.693 --> 14:20.676 [SPEAKER_00]: Cards, hell. 14:21.533 --> 14:24.978 [SPEAKER_00]: I remember the first time somebody told me, we weren't allowed to play cards, growing up. 14:24.998 --> 14:26.059 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you weren't allowed to gamble? 14:26.079 --> 14:27.161 [SPEAKER_00]: They're like, no, no, no, no. 14:29.024 --> 14:30.786 [SPEAKER_00]: We couldn't have playing cards. 14:31.647 --> 14:34.231 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, at all, you play Go Fish. 14:35.713 --> 14:38.317 [SPEAKER_00]: Solitaire. 14:38.337 --> 14:39.719 [SPEAKER_00]: What are you doing with your life? 14:39.739 --> 14:41.321 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do you hate Jesus so much? 14:42.983 --> 14:44.065 [SPEAKER_00]: Dude, play solitaire. 14:45.361 --> 14:49.388 [SPEAKER_00]: So whenever we talk about holiness, I want to make it very clear. 14:50.109 --> 14:55.359 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not talking about a legalistic everything seems you to hell. 14:57.182 --> 15:03.393 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, there's a demon under every rock and around every bush that's probably going to jump on you. 15:05.056 --> 15:09.343 [SPEAKER_00]: And when it does, the spirit of God that enduels within you is going to be scared and run away. 15:09.965 --> 15:11.147 [SPEAKER_00]: which let me just say this for a moment. 15:11.187 --> 15:13.970 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't even think we realized consciously we did that. 15:14.271 --> 15:19.718 [SPEAKER_00]: But whenever we think that demonic forces can just jump on us, because we drove by the movie theater. 15:22.041 --> 15:26.647 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you realize what a slap in the face of the spirit of God that is? 15:28.509 --> 15:29.290 [SPEAKER_00]: All right? 15:29.310 --> 15:29.691 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 15:29.751 --> 15:38.402 [SPEAKER_00]: I've read the Bible of at least once. 15:39.766 --> 15:42.813 [SPEAKER_00]: That is in me, then he, that is in the world. 15:43.534 --> 15:48.545 [SPEAKER_00]: But somewhere along the line, we thought, greater is he, that's in the world, than he, that's in me. 15:49.066 --> 15:51.412 [SPEAKER_00]: And the Spirit of God is freaked out by everything. 15:51.432 --> 15:55.461 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to run away, and which is half power, and dominion over us, and all this kind of stuff. 15:55.481 --> 15:57.505 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, this is bizarre. 15:59.375 --> 16:02.258 [SPEAKER_00]: No weapon formed against me. 16:03.059 --> 16:04.320 [SPEAKER_00]: Shall be able to prosper. 16:04.941 --> 16:08.265 [SPEAKER_00]: And every tongue that rises up in judgment, he shall condemn. 16:08.585 --> 16:12.689 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the heritage, the inheritance of all his saints. 16:14.571 --> 16:19.757 [SPEAKER_00]: So whenever I talk about Holiness, I'm not talking about no movie theaters, only Southern gospel music. 16:21.659 --> 16:24.522 [SPEAKER_00]: Women would know make up dresses, clavicals covered. 16:27.607 --> 16:35.257 [SPEAKER_00]: That's from a really experienced my sister graduate and her graduation from a Christian academy in the dress code. 16:35.357 --> 16:44.829 [SPEAKER_00]: It was explicitly stated that to walk and receive your diploma, your clavicle could not be shown. 16:44.849 --> 16:46.311 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of y'all are Googling right now. 16:46.432 --> 16:49.956 [SPEAKER_00]: What is a clavicle? 16:49.976 --> 16:56.044 [SPEAKER_00]: She said they cover it, so I don't know. 16:57.830 --> 17:07.766 [SPEAKER_00]: And the whole reason, of course, was, you know, you don't want to have a boy that gets into sin because it's his or her clavicle bone, to which my thought was this. 17:08.727 --> 17:10.650 [SPEAKER_00]: One, that sounds like a him problem. 17:13.895 --> 17:24.732 [SPEAKER_00]: And two, if a clavicle gets you going, what are we even doing with our lives? 17:30.128 --> 17:35.816 [SPEAKER_00]: Hear me, holiness is not presented merely by some outward expression or what clothes you wear. 17:36.877 --> 17:40.262 [SPEAKER_00]: Holiness is not necessarily having a list of do's and don'ts. 17:41.203 --> 17:45.869 [SPEAKER_00]: Although there are things we shouldn't do as believers and the church says, right? 17:45.889 --> 17:48.352 [SPEAKER_00]: Holiness more than anything is a heart position. 17:49.434 --> 17:54.060 [SPEAKER_00]: Holiness means that I am separated from something and dedicated to something. 17:55.137 --> 17:58.601 [SPEAKER_00]: This is what was trying to be described to us. 17:58.661 --> 18:00.483 [SPEAKER_00]: We're separated from sin. 18:00.783 --> 18:02.826 [SPEAKER_00]: We are separated from the plan of the enemy. 18:03.066 --> 18:05.348 [SPEAKER_00]: We are separated from that which harm us. 18:06.229 --> 18:10.254 [SPEAKER_00]: We are dedicated and separated from the systems of the world. 18:11.235 --> 18:13.057 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not what defines us. 18:14.619 --> 18:20.065 [SPEAKER_00]: And oftentimes, we want to define holiness as more what we are again. 18:21.631 --> 18:24.575 [SPEAKER_00]: than what we are for, and don't give me wrong. 18:24.595 --> 18:26.318 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to make sure I'm abundantly clear. 18:26.338 --> 18:35.410 [SPEAKER_00]: There are things that we should stand against, meaning that we don't just accept them as normal and just go along with whatever culture and the world of science. 18:35.450 --> 18:38.394 [SPEAKER_00]: Matter of fact, the very idea of holiness means this. 18:38.494 --> 18:41.218 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't just go along with what the culture says. 18:41.238 --> 18:43.842 [SPEAKER_00]: But that doesn't just mean about the things that you don't like. 18:45.324 --> 18:47.487 [SPEAKER_00]: It also means we're not formed by the culture. 18:48.665 --> 18:52.028 [SPEAKER_00]: It means we're formed by Scripture and not by social media. 18:53.449 --> 18:57.994 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of y'all don't drink or smoke, hopefully most of you. 18:59.936 --> 19:03.779 [SPEAKER_00]: Or V, we can't say smoke anymore, V, that's the new thing. 19:03.799 --> 19:15.330 [SPEAKER_00]: But what I can't say about you, is there probably are some people in this room that are allowing the think tank of social media and the podcast industry to shape you. 19:15.614 --> 19:19.679 [SPEAKER_00]: rather than scripture, and I've got bad news for you. 19:20.621 --> 19:27.249 [SPEAKER_00]: That's making you just as unholy, as what the other is, right? 19:27.269 --> 19:34.719 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're a little bit younger and maybe you don't have no idea what I'm talking about when I say social media, although that's just not true, by the way, that's just not true. 19:35.540 --> 19:41.588 [SPEAKER_00]: Studies are actually showing now that actually the older generation is spending more time on social media. 19:46.225 --> 19:53.414 [SPEAKER_00]: And even a lot of people in the younger generation, it's just an epidemic of humanity right now, right? 19:54.376 --> 19:59.102 [SPEAKER_00]: And we fall for fake news, right? 19:59.623 --> 20:07.413 [SPEAKER_00]: And we fall for AI post, come on, somebody, left and right. 20:07.733 --> 20:11.338 [SPEAKER_00]: And we don't think that's destroying our holiness, but it is. 20:11.808 --> 20:15.912 [SPEAKER_00]: because you weren't being separated from the world and formed by the King. 20:16.313 --> 20:18.715 [SPEAKER_00]: You're being formed by social media. 20:18.975 --> 20:20.797 [SPEAKER_00]: You're being formed by talking heads. 20:21.078 --> 20:22.719 [SPEAKER_00]: You're being formed by Fox News. 20:22.739 --> 20:24.201 [SPEAKER_00]: You're being formed by CNN. 20:24.241 --> 20:27.064 [SPEAKER_00]: You're being formed by whatever MSNBC is called now. 20:27.104 --> 20:28.525 [SPEAKER_00]: You're being formed by Olaian. 20:28.765 --> 20:31.188 [SPEAKER_00]: You're being formed by all of these people. 20:33.390 --> 20:34.591 [SPEAKER_00]: And that is making you. 20:34.631 --> 20:36.273 [SPEAKER_00]: And I know what they talk about Jesus. 20:36.353 --> 20:37.174 [SPEAKER_00]: They really don't. 20:38.515 --> 20:40.077 [SPEAKER_00]: They throw his name around. 20:41.153 --> 20:47.462 [SPEAKER_00]: as a weapon, but they don't talk about his character, his nature, and who he is. 20:48.985 --> 20:52.450 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, well, let's just keep going. 20:52.470 --> 20:53.631 [SPEAKER_00]: We are dedicated to the Lord. 20:53.652 --> 20:54.513 [SPEAKER_00]: We're dedicated to the Lord. 20:54.533 --> 20:55.134 [SPEAKER_00]: We're dedicated to the Lord. 20:55.154 --> 20:56.175 [SPEAKER_00]: We're dedicated to purpose. 20:56.436 --> 20:58.699 [SPEAKER_00]: We are dedicated to being image-bearers. 21:00.301 --> 21:04.107 [SPEAKER_00]: In Ephesians 2, it says this, y'all, will be this morning? 21:04.812 --> 21:05.233 [SPEAKER_00]: says this. 21:05.614 --> 21:19.405 [SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, remember that you once Gentiles in the flesh, who were called uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision made in the flesh by the hands, that at the time you were without Christ being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 21:19.625 --> 21:20.948 [SPEAKER_00]: But now, 21:21.603 --> 21:27.090 [SPEAKER_00]: In Christ Jesus, you who once were a far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 21:27.150 --> 21:32.638 [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, this, you've been made part of a new nation, you've been made part of a new covenant. 21:32.898 --> 21:35.882 [SPEAKER_00]: You once were far off, but you ain't any longer. 21:36.783 --> 21:48.319 [SPEAKER_00]: You once were an alien, you once were a stranger, but you now belong to something different, and God came to actually Jesus came to actually make you new. 21:49.531 --> 21:53.256 [SPEAKER_00]: He made, he came to improve you, right? 21:53.276 --> 21:54.117 [SPEAKER_00]: New and improved. 21:54.157 --> 21:54.837 [SPEAKER_00]: We like that idea. 21:54.877 --> 21:56.479 [SPEAKER_00]: We see it in advertising all the time. 21:57.080 --> 21:57.781 [SPEAKER_00]: New and improved. 21:59.163 --> 22:01.766 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the idea of advertising this given to us constantly. 22:01.846 --> 22:04.369 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything has a new formula, a new way of working, et cetera. 22:04.389 --> 22:04.810 [SPEAKER_00]: It's new. 22:04.870 --> 22:05.550 [SPEAKER_00]: It's improved. 22:05.570 --> 22:07.052 [SPEAKER_00]: We want everything new and improved. 22:07.072 --> 22:10.617 [SPEAKER_00]: That idea speaks to us in words, right? 22:10.637 --> 22:10.977 [SPEAKER_00]: It's new. 22:10.997 --> 22:12.679 [SPEAKER_00]: I got to try it. 22:12.699 --> 22:13.240 [SPEAKER_00]: They changed it. 22:13.280 --> 22:16.804 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't like it before, but I might now. 22:17.240 --> 22:21.145 [SPEAKER_00]: This idea speaks to us because it speaks to something deeper. 22:22.106 --> 22:26.492 [SPEAKER_00]: We have this desire for new life, we have this desire for improvement. 22:26.512 --> 22:32.679 [SPEAKER_00]: And the reason that we have this desire is because people deep down are really unsatisfied with who they are. 22:35.142 --> 22:37.665 [SPEAKER_00]: They're really deep down unsatisfied with who they are. 22:37.685 --> 22:46.977 [SPEAKER_00]: And I would propose that one of the reasons, even a lot of Christians, are dissatisfied with who they are, is because they don't 22:50.500 --> 22:55.611 [SPEAKER_00]: We still believe this idea and this concept, right? 22:56.252 --> 22:58.597 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just a sinner trying to make it in this world. 23:00.180 --> 23:02.004 [SPEAKER_00]: Bullishness. 23:02.024 --> 23:05.451 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not just a sinner trying to make it. 23:05.471 --> 23:07.716 [SPEAKER_00]: You are the righteousness of God. 23:08.557 --> 23:12.762 [SPEAKER_00]: in Christ Jesus, you are a new creation. 23:13.462 --> 23:18.889 [SPEAKER_00]: You have been baptized with Him in His death and brought forth in His resurrection. 23:19.229 --> 23:37.129 [SPEAKER_00]: You are not the saying that you used to be, but as long as you keep putting on yourself, this identity, well, if I'm just a good old sinner, then you know what you're gonna do, you're going to keep sinning, because you will become what you believe you are. 23:38.645 --> 24:05.563 [SPEAKER_00]: Right, which is side note by the way, parents, this is why it's so important, you speak words of life over your kids, bombs and dads, I don't, thank you for that overwhelming response, right, and by the way, I don't mean that you don't ever correct, you don't ever review, you don't ever approve, but on the back end of review and approve, you have to come back and speak life and destiny, right, and even the way that we review can be done in a way that is uplifting. 24:07.298 --> 24:10.323 [SPEAKER_00]: You always, you're always going to do this. 24:10.343 --> 24:12.166 [SPEAKER_00]: You're, this is not who you're made to be. 24:13.127 --> 24:14.470 [SPEAKER_00]: This is who you're called to be. 24:15.171 --> 24:18.156 [SPEAKER_00]: I love you regardless, but this is who you're called to be. 24:18.176 --> 24:19.858 [SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to become who God's called us to be. 24:19.879 --> 24:25.588 [SPEAKER_00]: The church says, you will become what you believe about yourself. 24:25.608 --> 24:31.958 [SPEAKER_00]: We see this very plainly when the children of Israel go and spy out Canaan, right? 24:31.978 --> 24:32.479 [SPEAKER_00]: Send in 24:33.691 --> 24:37.017 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, spies, you have 10 that come back with a negative report, two come back with a good report. 24:37.037 --> 24:41.245 [SPEAKER_00]: The 10 with the negative report says this, that we were like grasshoppers in their site. 24:43.048 --> 24:45.011 [SPEAKER_00]: As you mean, in our site, and so we were in there. 24:45.793 --> 24:48.017 [SPEAKER_00]: We were like grasshoppers in our site, and so we were in there. 24:48.257 --> 24:56.492 [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of times the way that story is retold is people retell it in the manner of like, the giants looked at them and saw that they were grasshoppers, but that's not what scripture tells us. 24:56.894 --> 25:01.301 [SPEAKER_00]: Scripture tells us that they looked at themselves as small. 25:01.942 --> 25:05.788 [SPEAKER_00]: And as a result, when the enemy looked at them, the enemy saw something small. 25:06.609 --> 25:09.654 [SPEAKER_00]: You will become what you believe about yourself. 25:09.674 --> 25:17.226 [SPEAKER_00]: So if we are constantly telling ourselves, I'm not new, I'm not improved, I'm not a new creation, but what I am is a sinner just trying to make it. 25:18.427 --> 25:20.891 [SPEAKER_00]: Then we're going to keep on living in a lifestyle sin. 25:21.192 --> 25:25.298 [SPEAKER_00]: And all preachery say at this point all the time, they used to tell us, 25:26.763 --> 25:29.308 [SPEAKER_00]: And if we were going to send a little bit every day, we were going to make it count. 25:31.934 --> 25:40.452 [SPEAKER_00]: Explain it to them like, but there's a lot of us who live that way, I certainly can't go with day without operating and seeing it, yes you can. 25:40.938 --> 25:42.541 [SPEAKER_00]: because Paul makes it very clear. 25:42.861 --> 25:49.351 [SPEAKER_00]: You are no longer under the dominion of sin, which means this, it no longer has power over you. 25:49.371 --> 25:51.394 [SPEAKER_00]: It no longer has control over you. 25:51.595 --> 25:56.603 [SPEAKER_00]: We talked about this on Wednesday night, we're talking about David and Bathsheba, because we're going through our series on David. 25:56.823 --> 25:59.107 [SPEAKER_00]: And we hear people make these kind of statements. 25:59.187 --> 26:01.070 [SPEAKER_00]: I slipped into sin. 26:02.692 --> 26:05.697 [SPEAKER_00]: No one slips into sin. 26:06.605 --> 26:29.558 [SPEAKER_00]: You walk into sin, one step at a time, one bad choice, one bad decision, one hangout that you shouldn't be at, one conversation you shouldn't have, one decision that you know better, but nobody ain't gonna be that big of a deal and ain't gonna become a thing, one message on social media that you shouldn't respond to from an old girlfriend or boyfriend in high school. 26:32.575 --> 26:37.861 [SPEAKER_00]: One at a time, you don't just wake up one day and be like David and falling. 26:37.881 --> 26:40.924 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't just wake up one day in the oops, I fell in to sin. 26:41.825 --> 26:46.830 [SPEAKER_00]: We walk in a step at a time because sin doesn't have dominion over you, only what you allow it. 26:48.352 --> 26:49.693 [SPEAKER_00]: Only what you participate in. 26:50.074 --> 26:54.198 [SPEAKER_00]: Sin has the ability to come and control you any longer. 26:54.218 --> 26:54.679 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you with me? 26:56.140 --> 26:57.722 [SPEAKER_00]: The glorious reality, 26:58.546 --> 27:02.231 [SPEAKER_00]: of who we are is what Paul is showing us in the first three chapters of Ephesians. 27:02.251 --> 27:05.316 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'll have time to go through the whole first three chapters this morning, obviously. 27:05.676 --> 27:08.420 [SPEAKER_00]: But Paul is telling us in the first three chapters of Ephesians. 27:08.460 --> 27:10.183 [SPEAKER_00]: Go read it this week, who you are. 27:10.483 --> 27:16.552 [SPEAKER_00]: And if we actually believe what he says about us and who we are, it will begin to shift our lives dramatically. 27:17.694 --> 27:19.997 [SPEAKER_00]: What you believe about yourself will change how you live. 27:23.032 --> 27:28.197 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me just give you a few things real quick, y'all with me, y'all give me, let me give you two things real quick, we're going to cut some out. 27:28.457 --> 27:30.139 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me talk about it next week. 27:30.159 --> 27:32.882 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want to give you two things that Paul is specifically says in the Ephesians that we are. 27:33.502 --> 27:34.924 [SPEAKER_00]: We are citizens in a new kingdom. 27:36.525 --> 27:44.574 [SPEAKER_00]: Part of this revelation that he's giving us is a new dimension in which we function. 27:44.594 --> 27:48.077 [SPEAKER_00]: You are now citizens of the kingdom of God. 27:50.302 --> 27:55.551 [SPEAKER_00]: You are now a citizen of the, let that, let the gravity of that sit on you for just a second. 27:56.973 --> 28:03.223 [SPEAKER_00]: Your citizenship has been changed for being a slave to sin to being a citizen in the kingdom. 28:03.243 --> 28:07.671 [SPEAKER_00]: You were never a citizen of sin, you were a slave to it. 28:07.691 --> 28:09.694 [SPEAKER_00]: But now you are a citizen in the kingdom. 28:10.855 --> 28:14.080 [SPEAKER_00]: He changed your complete identity and changed your citizenship. 28:14.641 --> 28:18.487 [SPEAKER_00]: Before Christ, you were stranger, you were an alien, you were devoid of rights. 28:19.229 --> 28:27.562 [SPEAKER_00]: But because of Christ, you were now part of who he is, and you are now a joint heir with him, which means this, what he has is now yours. 28:28.945 --> 28:31.108 [SPEAKER_00]: I said, what he has is now ours. 28:31.510 --> 28:36.216 [SPEAKER_00]: You have to understand what's again, the audience that Paul is writing this to. 28:37.078 --> 28:46.330 [SPEAKER_00]: He's writing this in the Roman Greek culture, and you have to understand how important citizenship was in that world. 28:46.591 --> 28:51.998 [SPEAKER_00]: Citizenship is still very important today's matter of fact, it's a hot topic right now. 28:52.018 --> 28:57.045 [SPEAKER_00]: But as important as it is to us in that world, it was even a bigger deal. 28:57.548 --> 29:00.853 [SPEAKER_00]: Roman citizenship, Greek citizenship, was who you were. 29:01.634 --> 29:05.940 [SPEAKER_00]: This is why what Paul is saying is to counter cultural and subversive. 29:05.960 --> 29:10.386 [SPEAKER_00]: It's always wild to me that we want to treat the New Testament writers like they weren't controversial. 29:10.427 --> 29:17.116 [SPEAKER_00]: You realize in the ancient world, whenever Paul shows up, he goes, you're a citizen of a different kingdom. 29:19.399 --> 29:27.471 [SPEAKER_00]: What he's saying is, you're not a citizen of Rome, you're not a citizen of Greece, 29:28.126 --> 29:45.715 [SPEAKER_00]: That is so, in which means this, whenever we say Jesus is Lord, the Scripture says Jesus is Lord, whenever the early church said Jesus is Lord, that was an express of front against the Roman Empire, because Jesus is Lord, when Jesus is Lord, Caesar is not. 29:48.380 --> 29:50.944 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 29:56.020 --> 30:00.326 [SPEAKER_00]: which, by the way, still today, we are citizens of a new kingdom. 30:02.269 --> 30:07.237 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not, I'm an American, and part of the kingdom of God, and those are on equal footing. 30:08.679 --> 30:13.486 [SPEAKER_00]: My American citizenship and my kingdom citizenship are two sides of the same coin. 30:14.247 --> 30:16.931 [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely not. 30:16.951 --> 30:17.692 [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely not. 30:18.453 --> 30:21.758 [SPEAKER_00]: We are citizens of the kingdom of God one. 30:22.565 --> 30:25.608 [SPEAKER_00]: and everything else comes after that. 30:26.349 --> 30:28.151 [SPEAKER_00]: There is nothing else beside it. 30:28.871 --> 30:32.455 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't have dual citizenship. 30:32.475 --> 30:38.761 [SPEAKER_00]: You have one citizenship, and it's the kingdom of heaven, and that's where our allegiances are too. 30:39.342 --> 30:42.605 [SPEAKER_00]: It's to the kingdom of God, to Jesus, to His church. 30:43.085 --> 30:46.209 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where our real allegious is like, don't miss understanding me. 30:46.229 --> 30:47.370 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful to be an American. 30:47.630 --> 30:49.151 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thankful to live in this country. 30:49.912 --> 30:51.694 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 30:53.952 --> 30:56.341 [SPEAKER_00]: Fireworks and hot dogs and praise God, amen. 30:58.670 --> 31:02.865 [SPEAKER_00]: But at the end of the day, the most important thing in my life. 31:03.183 --> 31:06.828 [SPEAKER_00]: The number one is that I am a citizen of the kingdom. 31:07.509 --> 31:09.271 [SPEAKER_00]: And my king is Jesus. 31:09.812 --> 31:11.455 [SPEAKER_00]: My ruler is Jesus. 31:11.875 --> 31:22.710 [SPEAKER_00]: I will pray for those who are in authority, but at the end of the day, Jesus is the one who sets the standard for the way I live my life, not a president, not a congress, not a Supreme Court. 31:22.991 --> 31:23.551 [SPEAKER_00]: None of that. 31:24.212 --> 31:25.354 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is number one. 31:25.394 --> 31:31.182 [SPEAKER_00]: And the church says, 31:32.900 --> 31:33.521 [SPEAKER_00]: a new family. 31:34.443 --> 31:35.485 [SPEAKER_00]: Paul takes it a step further. 31:35.505 --> 31:46.287 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, not only are you part of a new country, not only are you a new citizen, but you also have a new family that we are members of the household of God as the way he puts it. 31:47.108 --> 31:49.192 [SPEAKER_00]: Citizenship is important, but it's not intimate. 31:50.255 --> 31:51.116 [SPEAKER_00]: Family is intimate. 31:51.657 --> 31:54.503 [SPEAKER_00]: We now have new brothers and sisters in Christ. 31:55.073 --> 31:59.459 [SPEAKER_00]: We can now be accepted fully, love-freely, greeted warmly, encouraged daily. 32:00.000 --> 32:01.462 [SPEAKER_00]: This is what families are for. 32:02.083 --> 32:06.370 [SPEAKER_00]: And the amazing thing about families, is families may not always agree, but you don't get to choose your family. 32:09.675 --> 32:10.396 [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, they Lou, yeah. 32:12.238 --> 32:13.600 [SPEAKER_00]: Families may not always agree. 32:13.640 --> 32:16.505 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know about your family, but my family, we've had conflict before. 32:17.987 --> 32:20.811 [SPEAKER_00]: I know no one else in this room has ever had conflict with family. 32:22.782 --> 32:24.825 [SPEAKER_00]: But I've had conflict with family, but you know what? 32:25.445 --> 32:28.189 [SPEAKER_00]: Still my family. 32:28.209 --> 32:31.173 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes somebody might go down the wrong path, but guess what, they're still family. 32:32.615 --> 32:34.157 [SPEAKER_00]: And at the end of the day, we're there for each other. 32:34.177 --> 32:35.959 [SPEAKER_00]: That's how family's supposed to operate. 32:36.420 --> 32:39.083 [SPEAKER_00]: Here, me, part of the thing about families, you aren't fake with family. 32:40.866 --> 32:48.756 [SPEAKER_00]: This shouldn't be one of the greatest to services we've done in church culture as we've created a culture of fake projections. 32:50.103 --> 32:52.206 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, family is wrong, family is real. 32:52.226 --> 32:53.207 [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody's going through something. 32:53.227 --> 32:54.849 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't just have to smile and put on a brave face. 32:56.271 --> 32:57.292 [SPEAKER_00]: You can talk to somebody. 32:58.254 --> 33:00.276 [SPEAKER_00]: You can get somebody to pray for you, right? 33:00.497 --> 33:03.360 [SPEAKER_00]: We want to confess positive things and good things, amen. 33:03.380 --> 33:04.842 [SPEAKER_00]: We want to confess the promises of God. 33:05.423 --> 33:10.350 [SPEAKER_00]: But my wife knows that if I'm having a rough day, all right. 33:12.893 --> 33:14.535 [SPEAKER_00]: If my wife is like, how are you doing today? 33:16.137 --> 33:19.722 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not like the less than highly favored sweetheart, praise God. 33:20.545 --> 33:24.330 [SPEAKER_00]: Hallelujah, lowering me to the Lord Almighty, who forever saw rain. 33:27.735 --> 33:31.019 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna lift my hands in the living room and turn on some music and worship now. 33:32.461 --> 33:37.688 [SPEAKER_00]: If I did that, my wife would think in Beijing of the body snatchers had happened. 33:37.708 --> 33:39.130 [SPEAKER_00]: And I had been replaced. 33:41.012 --> 33:42.194 [SPEAKER_00]: We aren't fake with family. 33:42.995 --> 33:45.979 [SPEAKER_00]: We shouldn't be fake with our brothers and sisters in the Lord. 33:46.246 --> 33:48.588 [SPEAKER_00]: This is what we're called to bury each other's burdens. 33:49.429 --> 33:52.251 [SPEAKER_00]: We can't bury what we don't know isn't there, right? 33:52.832 --> 34:16.253 [SPEAKER_00]: Part of being part of a new nation, a new family, part of being different now means that our problems aren't just our problems, but God surrounds us with a new family to help bear our burdens that will pick you up and help you keep going whenever you don't have any power left to get going, that will encourage you and celebrate and shout with you in your good seasons 34:16.233 --> 34:20.239 [SPEAKER_00]: Then we don't expect each other to be perfect people all the time. 34:22.422 --> 34:22.803 [SPEAKER_00]: Go, women? 34:23.824 --> 34:27.329 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're struggling, you don't have to hide it from God, bring it to it. 34:27.349 --> 34:29.993 [SPEAKER_00]: If my kids are having a rough time with something, I want them to talk to me. 34:30.954 --> 34:33.839 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want them to hide it from me because hiding never produces anything good. 34:35.461 --> 34:35.882 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you admit me? 34:37.424 --> 34:39.046 [SPEAKER_00]: But not only that, I'm going to close with this one. 34:39.066 --> 34:39.487 [SPEAKER_00]: Not only that. 34:40.148 --> 34:41.570 [SPEAKER_00]: Now is part of the family of God. 34:42.531 --> 34:43.413 [SPEAKER_00]: It's part of his family. 34:43.473 --> 34:44.434 [SPEAKER_00]: We have inheritance. 34:46.085 --> 34:51.151 [SPEAKER_00]: We have inheritances, what belongs to Jesus, now belongs to us. 34:52.292 --> 34:56.737 [SPEAKER_00]: And guess what, healing is His, to it belongs to you. 34:57.878 --> 35:00.661 [SPEAKER_00]: Break through His, so it belongs to you. 35:00.961 --> 35:04.705 [SPEAKER_00]: Being different now and walking in holiness isn't a burden. 35:05.807 --> 35:06.628 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a joy. 35:07.649 --> 35:10.692 [SPEAKER_00]: And with that joy comes privileges. 35:11.785 --> 35:41.725 [SPEAKER_00]: right and we don't have to beg for it either because we're family you all heard us give this analogy before but the other day the other day we were up here at the church late getting ready we're doing some work on actually a new song that you know wrote I say late it was late for me we doing it next Sunday so you don't want to miss it but we were we're doing some work on a song me and dad that's like I need to ride home you take me home I was like sure so we hop to my car and I drove him home and I went inside 35:42.937 --> 35:44.899 [SPEAKER_00]: Every good man has a garage fridge. 35:46.881 --> 35:48.523 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, somebody, y'all know what I'm talking about. 35:49.704 --> 35:54.009 [SPEAKER_00]: And the garage fridge is where you keep the drinks. 35:54.029 --> 35:56.351 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, so my say drinks, I mean soda, yes, let's clarify. 35:58.253 --> 35:59.194 [SPEAKER_00]: Where you keep the sodas. 36:00.095 --> 36:03.379 [SPEAKER_00]: And in their case, also you who, because they have grandchildren, which is disgusting. 36:05.901 --> 36:08.404 [SPEAKER_00]: Chocolate flavored water, everyone delicious. 36:12.434 --> 36:20.544 [SPEAKER_00]: But pretty much any time I get the dad's house whenever I'm mum and dad's house when I'm walking inside, I just stop at that fridge and grab a drink. 36:20.564 --> 36:22.647 [SPEAKER_00]: Doc Mountain Dew, Coke Zero, whatever they got in there. 36:22.707 --> 36:23.348 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm grabbing something. 36:24.329 --> 36:26.692 [SPEAKER_00]: And then, not Pepsi Zero because Pepsi's nasty. 36:30.397 --> 36:31.858 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm getting booze from some people. 36:31.939 --> 36:33.140 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think this was a hot take. 36:35.844 --> 36:36.564 [SPEAKER_00]: You go to a restaurant. 36:36.584 --> 36:37.365 [SPEAKER_00]: You have Coke or Pepsi. 36:37.526 --> 36:38.627 [SPEAKER_00]: Pepsi, I'll have a water. 36:46.184 --> 36:53.775 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll blame you for your Pepsi person, we're praying for you, positive person. 36:53.795 --> 36:58.301 [SPEAKER_00]: Grab, grab some another drink, and I don't ask for it. 36:58.321 --> 37:02.907 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't get on my knees and go, Dad, I'm really thirsty. 37:05.251 --> 37:10.538 [SPEAKER_00]: In your mercy and grace, could you please find it in your heart? 37:11.817 --> 37:19.328 [SPEAKER_00]: to let me have one of the hindrings out of the soda, out of the fridge, the other sir. 37:20.590 --> 37:21.071 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I do? 37:21.451 --> 37:26.759 [SPEAKER_00]: I walk out of the fridge, I pop that fridge open, I grab something, my going thought, open the bus start drinking here. 37:26.779 --> 37:26.979 [SPEAKER_00]: All right? 37:26.999 --> 37:33.589 [SPEAKER_00]: Not only that, when I'm leaving, no, no, yeah, that happens too. 37:36.050 --> 37:40.756 [SPEAKER_00]: But there's something about grandparents now, because my grandma used to do this to me all the time. 37:41.517 --> 37:42.178 [SPEAKER_00]: And still does. 37:42.919 --> 37:47.826 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't, by the way, do something about grandma and grandpa else, same rules of play, right? 37:47.846 --> 37:49.928 [SPEAKER_00]: Except there, you don't just get a drink. 37:49.989 --> 37:53.794 [SPEAKER_00]: You're also going to get like a steak thrown at you or something. 37:53.814 --> 37:55.616 [SPEAKER_00]: Some ribs, just chucked at your face. 37:58.960 --> 38:00.442 [SPEAKER_00]: But you hungry? 38:01.083 --> 38:02.785 [SPEAKER_00]: I just ate lunch, but are you hungry? 38:03.266 --> 38:03.947 [SPEAKER_00]: I guess so. 38:07.218 --> 38:09.301 [SPEAKER_00]: Grandparents have this thing though. 38:09.321 --> 38:10.663 [SPEAKER_00]: Especially if you don't have your kids with you. 38:10.804 --> 38:13.608 [SPEAKER_00]: On the way out the door, they start giving you things. 38:18.035 --> 38:21.501 [SPEAKER_00]: I walked out of their house with three or four grocery bags. 38:24.525 --> 38:27.330 [SPEAKER_00]: I get home and Josiah put it all up. 38:27.390 --> 38:29.133 [SPEAKER_00]: Miranda was at the house she was getting the girls from dance. 38:29.153 --> 38:30.294 [SPEAKER_00]: She came in and opened the refrigerator. 38:30.314 --> 38:31.837 [SPEAKER_00]: Where did all this food come from? 38:33.239 --> 38:34.060 [SPEAKER_00]: I went to mom's house. 38:34.161 --> 38:35.082 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, makes sense. 38:37.660 --> 38:42.049 [SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing, I didn't ask for any of these. 38:42.069 --> 38:43.092 [SPEAKER_00]: They gave it freely. 38:44.074 --> 38:44.374 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 38:44.936 --> 38:46.900 [SPEAKER_00]: Because we're family. 38:46.920 --> 38:47.942 [SPEAKER_00]: And because they love me. 38:48.062 --> 38:53.053 [SPEAKER_00]: Hear me, you don't have to beg God for what is in his possession. 38:53.759 --> 38:55.823 [SPEAKER_00]: He wants to give it to you freely. 38:56.304 --> 38:57.988 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to plead with him. 38:58.368 --> 39:01.976 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not a stingy old man who's holding back from you. 39:01.996 --> 39:12.558 [SPEAKER_00]: Because you're different now, you have a new identity, you have a new function, you have a new family, and he's here to give you something a lot better than you do. 39:12.578 --> 39:15.143 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's here to give you something a lot better than Mountain Dew. 39:15.646 --> 39:16.908 [SPEAKER_00]: He's here to give you healing. 39:16.928 --> 39:21.234 [SPEAKER_00]: He's here to give you breakthrough because you aren't under the minion of sin any longer. 39:21.495 --> 39:23.237 [SPEAKER_00]: You are brought into a new covenant. 39:23.477 --> 39:25.080 [SPEAKER_00]: You're part of a new reality. 39:25.340 --> 39:26.802 [SPEAKER_00]: You have a new citizenship. 39:27.063 --> 39:28.304 [SPEAKER_00]: You have a new family. 39:28.565 --> 39:35.495 [SPEAKER_00]: And he is here to poor blessing, restoration, favor on your life because it's not like it used to be. 39:35.815 --> 39:36.817 [SPEAKER_00]: It's different now. 39:37.097 --> 39:40.082 [SPEAKER_00]: And you have a new life in a new way that you can walk in. 39:40.362 --> 39:44.488 [SPEAKER_00]: And it is better than it was before. 39:45.650 --> 40:13.362 [SPEAKER_00]: If you get ever dream, hope or match me, stand up to your feet.