Nailed It: The Old Self Crucified

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Well, I'm grateful to be here with you today.

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We are talking about worship.

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We just talked about worship in that video, and today, we're gonna talk more about worship as well, but worship in a totally different way.

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We're gonna talk about crucifying our flesh.

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That sounds morbid.

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What are you doing, dude?

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It's 9:50 in the morning.

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You should talk about happy things.

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Well, great, I'd love to.

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We're gonna do that today too.

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So if you guys have your Bibles

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If you don't have your Bibles, there are pew Bibles in front of you, unless you're in the front row.

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Then too, too bad.

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I don't know what to tell you, why you sit in the front row.

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That's weird.

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Um, if you have the pew Bible, it's gonna be on page 942 and 943, but we are in Romans 6, verses 1 through 11.

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And so if you'd have your Bible out with me and read along, whether in your head or out loud.

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Sometimes I like to have people read with me.

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How fun would that be?

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Um, so it says this, What shall we say then?

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Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?

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By no means!

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How can we who died to sin still live in it?

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Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

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We were buried, therefore, with him by baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

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For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.

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Verse 6.

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We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

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For one who has died has been set free from sin.

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Now, if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

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We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again.

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Death no longer has dominion over him.

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For the death he died, he died to sin once for all.

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But the life he lives, he lives to God.

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So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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Let's pray together.

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Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for the opportunity this morning to worship Jesus, and to be so thankful for the sacrifice that he willingly gave for us, that he would take on the sin of the world, my sin, and that he would do all of that so I could spend forever with you.

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Father, we thank you for that.

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We praise you for that.

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I pray this morning that as my friends and I are sitting here and chatting, that you would help this message not, not that they would be my words, but that they would be the words that you want for them to hear today.

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Get me out of the way, Lord.

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Allow for me to be able to speak the things only that you want me to speak.

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Nothing more, nothing less.

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Father, we love you.

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Thanks for loving us.

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Amen.

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The summer of 1862 was a rather difficult time for this man.

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His name is Abraham Lincoln, if you didn't know, and he was in a very big struggle.

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You see, the Civil War had been raging for a little over a year, and at this point in time, in that summer of s- 1862

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Not 62.

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Some of you were alive in 62, but 1862, not.

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That summer, it was hard.

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You see, there was a stalemate that had occurred.

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The North and the South had been fighting, and there were all sorts of rumors flying.

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Some of them were in the War Department itself in Washington, DC.

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But the rumors were this, that Europe may actually do the unthinkable.

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They may actually recognize Southern independence.

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And if they were to do that, that would mean weapons, food, and supplies would begin to flow again, because the British Navy would break the blockades that the North had put in the Southern ports.

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And if that happened, he didn't wanna think about that.

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You see, he spent that summer in the War Department listening to the dispatches that were coming back and forth into the office, and he was feverishly interpreting each one of them, and all of them continued to formulate one idea, that in order for this war to end, in order for the union to be one again, something had to happen.

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The conversation no longer could be about the union and its breakup.

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It couldn't be blaming the South and being angry at them for daring to secede.

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No, this conversation had to be something, become something different.

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You see, he knew that this conversation needed to become moral.

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It needed to take on a different tone, and he had just such a plan.

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The plan, though, needed some help.

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You see, they had not won a battle, a major victory in quite a while, and he knew that in order for any plan to take place, that he needed a victory.

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And that victory happened on September 17th, 1862, in a little town nearby called Sharpsburg, Virginia, near a little creek called the Antietam.

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Many of you may be familiar with this as calling, being called the Battle of Antietam.

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This battle, in fact, is the most bloodiest single day of conflict that any American has ever faced.

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20,000 men gave their lives that day on both the North and the Southern side.

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It was a horrible day, started about 6:00 in the morning, and the shooting didn't stop until much after dark.

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And as Lincoln was getting reports coming in, he was horrified, as many of them were, at the brutality that they were hearing about, reports that were unthinkable.

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But the thing in his mind that was more unthinkable was the idea that the North and the South should continue the way that they were.

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And so he had spent that summer with a secret.

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You see, he had taken about 10 days and cloistered himself away in an office, and he had been writing and writing and rewriting and thinking.

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He'd actually been using books from what's now the Library of, of Congress, and he'd been researching and, and processing all this information.And at the end of that, he had put together a document.

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That document we know today, called the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Now, the Emancipation Proclamation was a large game of chicken.

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That's honestly what it was.

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You see, he needed to get the South to come back to the negotiating table, and to do that, he had to turn the conversation into a moral one.

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And he knew the way to do that was to make it impossible for European powers to be able to condone

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And what he did was he said, If you come back to the negotiating table, I will never sign this into law.

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I will never free the slaves.

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And we'll, we'll talk about what we're gonna do, but I won't do that.

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But if on J- January 1st, 1863, you still haven't come to the negotiating table,

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I'll sign it into law.

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And that was the game that he played, and then with the Battle of Antietam, he had exactly what he needed.

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And I want you to imagine this on January 1st, 1863, there were people that went out all into the villages, to plantations.

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They even would smuggle th- this, this Emancipation Proclamation in, and they would have it read to the slaves, to people who were former slaves even.

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And I want you to imagine what they were hearing and how it must have made them feel.

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For many of them, they had never even had hope in their life.

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This was the only life they knew.

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But on that day, they began to hear words, words that meant way more than they could imagine.

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Now, we know that the war eventually ended, and in December of 1865, long after Abraham Lincoln had already passed, an amendment was made, and that amendment abolished slavery permanently.

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Now, with that amendment came something interesting.

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You see, many of the very people who had been freed from this horrible, brutal life were found to be coming back to the very plantations and the very people who had enslaved them.

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Isn't that interesting?

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Because they had only known one way of life.

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Paul, in Romans Verses 1 and 2, he begins to have a problem that he's dealing with.

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You see, the problem he's dealing with is there are people who are talking to him and saying things about him personally, but also others, talking about how it doesn't actually matter if they sin.

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Because if Jesus had brought grace, what did it matter?

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Let's read.

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What shall we say then?

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Are we to continue in sin that grace may, may abound?

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This is one of my favorite parts of, of the entire Bible.

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It's like Paul shouting into a microphone.

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He goes, By no means!

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How can we who died to sin still live in it?

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You see, Paul's question is this.

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Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?

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Are we

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How, how are people who, who have defined their life now, We've accepted Christ.

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We've accepted His sacrifice.

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How are we to now continue to define our life not by Him, the person who has freed us, but by the old thing that used to trap us?

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It was unconscionable to Paul, and it didn't make any sense to him.

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Romans 5:20 is actually the beginning of this little passage where he's really ramping up.

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It says this.

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Now the law came in to increase the trespass.

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In other words, the law, right?

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The Old Testament, it, it actually revealed what sin was.

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That's what happened, right?

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The Old Testament simply revealed that, that murder is bad.

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Before that, nobody apparently knew.

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That's a joke.

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You're allowed to laugh.

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It

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They didn't know that lying was wrong.

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They didn't know these things, but God gave the law, and at that point, now they knew these things.

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They knew that it was wrong to do this, and so it increased what was happening.

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But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.

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So that as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness, leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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You see, grace does not equal more sin.

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Grace does not equal more sin.

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Grace does not mean that you are free to just willy-nilly go around and do whatever you want.

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People think that sin is bad, right?

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We think of sin, we think of darkness.

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We think of all these bad things.

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Sin's kinda fun.

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You ever notice that?

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Peo- people like sin, apparently.

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Guys like me wouldn't have a job otherwise.

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Like, people like to sin.

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They like to

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They like the things that it brings them.

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They like how it makes them feel in the moment, but it's always a moment.

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what Paul is saying is, "No, no, no.

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You don't get it.

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You see, you have something even

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Jesus died for you, and the grace that he's given you has made it so that sin has no place here."

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The Gospel, it doesn't give permission to sin.

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It gives us the power to overcome it.

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That truth is

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I mean, I'm sitting in, I'm sitting in my, my coffee shop i- this week and I'm going through my notes and, and praying about this, and I was like, "Lord, I

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That's

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What an amazing truth that is."

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And then I come to this one.

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Grace doesn't accommodate sin.

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It doesn't make apologies and excuses for it.

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It doesn't, you know, have a secret where it's like, "Oh, yeah.

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I know.

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But this idiot Todd, he, you know, he still does some things, but we're gonna cover him.

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We're gonna make sure that he can still go to heaven."

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Grace, grace kills sin.

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It extinguishes it.

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I'm sitting in this coffee shop and I'm, I'm thinking about it and, and I'm

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I, I had just been having a conversation with somebody about, about their life and, and, and what was going on in it, and they were sharing all of these wonderful things and, and I felt so convicted, because i- in what they were sharing, I, I realized they were sharing deep truth and pain in their life over things that have been happening.

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This is a barista.

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They were working behind the counter.

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They were back to work and I walked up and I, I literally was like, "Hey, I

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You know, I messed up.

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I, I had something I wanted to, to share with you."

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And this is a person who I've had many conversations with in the past before about church and about God.

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And they're, they're trying to figure out life and, and I said, "I, I just need to let you know something.

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I, I'm in

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studying and I'm, I'm preaching this weekend and, and in my notes, I

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there was this and I just wanted to share this with you.

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Grace, it doesn't accommodate sin.

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It, it kills it."

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They looked at me probably like I was a crazy person.

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But in that moment, she began to share even more about what was going on in her life.

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Friends, you see, the power of the Gospel and the grace that comes from it, it does amazing things.

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1 John says this.

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"The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

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No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.

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Continuing in sin is like a freed slave returning to the very plantation that had enslaved them."

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Why live under a master who no longer owns you?

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How do we do that?

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But many of us live our lives that very way, don't we?

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We know that we believe in Jesus.

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We know that we've accepted Him.

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But I still watch that stuff on the internet.

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But I still drink too much.

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Gossiping and lying have become hallmarks of my life.

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And that grace thing that Jesus gave us, I, I know it's there.

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I, I know that He's done that for me and good thing.

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Many of us live that

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Many of us live our lives, even though we're free, still very much in bondage.

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Paul continues in verse three and he begins to talk about baptism, and the way he talks about baptism is fascinating.

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You see, he has an interesting take on it.

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He views baptism this way.

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He says, "Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

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We were buried, therefore, with Him by baptism into death."

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You see, Paul was saying here, he says, "Baptism, it's not just a ritual."

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No, it doesn't save you, but it's more than just a ritual.

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It's more than just something.

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We're gonna see baptism second service today.

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Stick around, by the way.

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that'll be fun.

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I have to

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I'm baptizing 2 kids.

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I have to get this whole suit off and, like, go and do that and then come back.

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It's gonna be fun.

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Maybe I'll have my clothes on the right way.

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But he's saying it's a public declaration of union with Christ's death and burial.

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What he's saying is, "Hey, this is more than just

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This is just a ritual."

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This, this is

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There's something that's going on here.

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You see, you've been buried with Jesus.

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That's what this declares.

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You've been buried, all the old stuff, all those things that you used to be a part of, and then you've been raised to walk in newness of life.

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Your new thing.

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We talked about that last time I preached about how we are a new creation in 2 Corinthians 5:17.

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You're a new creation.

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He's saying, "Hey, there's something new about you."

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You know, when you publicly confess that, that Jesus is Lord, when you do that, you're a different person.

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Baptism, it's almost like your own little freedom document that now you can go and show and say, "Hey, it's a visible reminder that I have died to my old life."

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Last summer, um, people think that I started walking and losing weight because of health Well, just know that was a side benefit, but that wasn't the reason I started doing it.

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People also think that it was because, uh, my wife was pregnant and, you know, our little baby was on the way.

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It was a good side benefit, mostly for her, but it wasn't why I did that either.

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You see, it was much

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something much more sinister.

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You see, for me-I knew that my weight had gotten out of control and, and, and it was hiding something.

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It was hiding the fact that for many years of my life, I had used food to be able to process my emotions.

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I had used food and overindulging to, to be able to deal with feelings that I had.

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I would sit in meetings late at night, and on the way going home from the church, I would stop at a gas station and I would get a bunch of junk food.

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I would go home and eat all it.

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That was just to process my feelings that way.

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Or, I would go to restaurants every single day of the week when I was single, and I would eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner out every single day.

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And I would, I would do this over and over and over again.

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It's how I processed my feelings.

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And what I knew was that in order for me to be the man that both my daughter and also my wife needed me to be, I had to develop other habits.

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I had to begin to process how I was feeling, process the things I was thinking in a way that wasn't destructive, but it was constructive.

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And for me, I had to have this visible reminder that I used to do those things, that when I was

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when, before I knew who Jesus was, that, that back then, I processed and did things this way, but now I'm a different thing.

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You know, didn't mean that I didn't love the Lord.

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Of course not.

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Didn't mean that, that I was being, that I was being horribly wrong.

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No, no, no, that's not what it meant.

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Meant that I hadn't fully surrendered to Him.

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I think many of you are in the same boat.

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Maybe yours isn't food like mine was, but it's other things.

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You see, when we are baptized, we are publicly saying, "Hey, I'm a new thing.

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I'm different.

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Christ died for me.

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He loved me enough to do

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When we get baptized and we come out of the water and it, it's showing, Hey, I'm new.

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I've died my old life.

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Now here, if there's a passage in this Bible should

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this Bible passage that, that kind of is the crescendo of the whole thing.

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It's the next 3 verses, verse five, six, and seven.

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And it's really a crescendo because it declares something incredible, declares this, "For if we have been united with Him in a death like His, we shall certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like

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We know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin."

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You see, the old self, we oftentimes think of it as something that continues to haunt us.

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Memories can haunt us, that's true, but that old self can't.

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What do I mean by that?

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You see the old self, the old things that we used to do, the old ways of thinking, our old nature literally was crucified with Christ when we accept His offer of forgiveness.

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You see, people don't understand.

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I, I, I explain to children all the time, they, they think of it like the, the wrong things that we do, but we have so much more

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The, the sin is so much more than just wrong things that we do.

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We teach children that sin is this, sin is anything that we think, anything that we say, and anything that we do that breaks God's word.

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But for a child, it goes even deeper than that because they'll come up to me and say, "Well, Mr.

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Todd, I haven't done any of that this week."

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first off, yeah, you did.

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You just lied.

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But what, what, what, what they're trying to, what they're trying to, to get to is that it's, it's stuff that we do or that we don't do, but sin is more, it's deeper.

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Sin is who we were before we follow Jesus.

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Sin is who we were, and that thing has been killed, that's dead when we follow Him and gone.

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We have a poor theology of sin.

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Pastor Mike and I, for the last couple of years were talking about all kinds of theological things, and we got to the section of sin, and this was one of the passages we went over.

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And as we were talking about it, you know, I, I really came to realize that we, we don't fully understand what sin does to

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You see, sin and what Jesus did, it breaks sin's power and it ends our slavery to it.

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That old thing that we used to be, it no longer has dominion.

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The old ways of thinking, the old ways of behaving no longer has dominion in our life.

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Now, this is an interesting one.

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As I was reading, um, this week, it says, "The body of sin"

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Like, I

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There's my body.

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You know, there's Christ's body.

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Uh, okay, we get that.

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What does the body of sin mean?

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Isn't that interesting?

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It means this, and this was horrifying to me.

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All right, so imagine

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By the way, going to Starbucks with me has got to be a wild experience.

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I'm sitting there, I'm reading this.

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And, and, and, like, I have, like, shocked face as I'm reading one of the commentaries.

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I'm like, What?

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No way.

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Because here's what it actually is.

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I want you to imagine this, a beautiful violin that was built by a master, a master, and played by a master.

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And this, this, this, this violin is, uh, perfect

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Zach Reer is somewhere dying right totally butchering how to play a violin.

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But he's, but they're, they're, they're

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He's using this beautiful instrument and playing it beautifully, and then hands it to a 6yearold terrorist.

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Not literally a terrorist, but most 6yearolds can be terrorists at times.

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And this 6yearold takes it and just wings it across the room, just throws it across the room, smashes it on the floor, begins to, to use it not as a violin but as a guitar, horror upon horror, and just destroys this beautiful instrument.

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And when the master comes to get it, he comes and looks at it and it's broken into pieces and the strings are f- are, are, are, are jacked up and, and everything is laying all over the place.

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That is literally what sin does to you

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And it makes it no longer a violin.

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It makes it wood and strings, pieces and parts, broken and shattered, existing in the world.

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And what the master does is he picks that violin back up and he says, I know where this goes, and I know how to fix this, and I know exactly where that goes.

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And you know what?

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If I just do this, it'll make it right again.

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And not only does he put that violin back together, but he does it in such a way, with you and with me when we accept the sacrifice that Christ made, he does it in such a way, not only does it play, it plays better than it ever did.

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The sound that comes from it is incredible.

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And friends, that's you, that's me.

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I'm sitting in this coffee shop going, Sin literally uses my body as its play thing, as an instrument.

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What a horrifying thought, but what a beautiful thought to think that God, the creator of the universe, puts me back together.

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He puts my pieces together and orders them perfectly, and brings unity between myself and Him.

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There's a key word in verse 7, or phrase.

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The word in Greek, it, it literally is a legal term and it, and it l- means to legally be released from something, to be set free.

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You are set free.

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Just the same way as the Emancipation Proclamation made slavery illegal, the cross made your bondage to sin totally over and totally done with.

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That's a beautiful truth, isn't it?

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Now, up to this point in the sermon, if you've been a believer for any amount of time, I mean, I would hope that you would agree with everything that I've said.

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But as some ladies asked me before the service, sh- they're like, Don't convict me, I'm, I apologize for what I'm about to do, because the Lord led me down this trail and, and I couldn't not see it, and then I had to think, Do I

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Okay, do I need to go there?

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Do I need to talk about this?

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The more that I, I saw this, the more I was convicted that I had to.

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And so for the next few moments, if you would allow me, I have some things I wanna show

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And so in verses 8, 9, and 10, it says this, Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

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We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again.

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Death no longer has dominion over him.

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For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

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You see, if we died with Christ, that also means something else.

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He's not dead.

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He's not still in that grave.

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We celebrate that when we worship him.

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We celebrate that all the time by singing.

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Why do we live like we're dead when that's not his reality and we belong to him?

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If you're a believer in this room, we're all guilty of this.

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I was processing this and thinking about it, and here's what I came to.

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It means that his resurrection means that sin and death no longer rule over me, no longer has a place here.

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And Jesus lives this life that's fully devoted to God and ours should be too.

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And here's, here's where this ends up going.

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You've not just been freed from something, but you've been freed for something.

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What does that mean?

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Pastors do weird things all the time where they put words that are normal and they throw em out there, like from and for, and they're like, Hey, here's this thing, and I'm so smart.

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But, but I wanted to share some

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j- j- just a little bit of this with you, cause I'm, you know

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Again, uh, uh, imagine me sitting in Starbucks, doing this and gasping.

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That's what was going on, again, this week.

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Because I'm sitting there and I'm realizing that, again, it's not about what Christ has taken away from us, but it's about what he's given us.

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Jesus says this in Matthew, in the Book of Matthew.

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He talks about how if we come to him, those who are weary, that he will take, he will take our burden, and his burden is light and his yoke is easy.What does that mean?

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It means living a different life, living a different way.

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Living in such a way that we can't help but live differently.

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As I've been walking, I think a lot.

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Um, and I talk out loud to myself, mostly cause I'm an extrovert.

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My neighbors think I'm nuts.

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And as I'm walking, right, I, I'm, I'm praying and I'm, I'm thinking about all kinds of things and many of you have probably even received a phone call from me while I'm walking, cause like I'll just call people and be like, Hey, what's up?

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Um, I get bored.

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It's an hour and a half.

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Like, you get bored.

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And, and so I'm walking and I'm, and I'm, I'm processing all of these different things and, and, and I realize that for, for so many people, uh, they'll come to

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and we'll, we'll talk about it, right, when I was working with the young adults.

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And we would talk about the things going on in their life and almost everything was the things that had been done to them, right?

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And we would untangle those things and we would talk about what Christ has done for them.

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And we would talk about how to help them in their life and, and how to live differently.

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It was great.

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The thing that was always the hardest for them to hear, and the thing that's hard for you and for me to hear, is this, it's that it's not just about what he's done for us, but it's about what we now get to do.

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And that's a tough one, because that means that you and I have to do something about this.

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It's all well and good for us to talk in our Sunday school classes and for us to talk in our small groups about how Jesus died for, for you and for me.

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It's another thing to live as though that reality is true.

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You see, having that broken chain means that we're free to do some things.

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We're free to go and do some damage, do some damage for the kingdom, to be able to go out and actually live for things.

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So there's a mindset that I'm talking about, and as we close the message today, I want you to hear this mindset.

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And this is the part where I'm gonna mess with you.

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So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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Consider yourselves.

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This is an active thing.

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This means that for you and for me, you have something to do now.

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It's not just a passive thing that you just get to sit back and chill.

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Y- You gotta do something about this.

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You are dead to sin.

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You're alive to God.

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That means something.

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It means we have to do a thing.

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And then it came to me.

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God gave this message to Moses in the book of Deuteronomy, and at the end of the book, there's blessing and curse language.

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And God basically says this, he says, See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.

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And what God was saying was this, Hey, you have choices to make.

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If you do what's good, if you follow me, if you listen to me, there's life, there's good things that happen.

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But you have a choice as well, because if you don't listen to me, if you don't follow me, that way is death, and there's evil there.

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And for all of us, we make this choice every single day of our life.

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We choose whether or not we're going to lie.

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We choose whether or not we're going to gossip.

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We choose whether or not we're going to talk to people or shun people.

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We choose these things.

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We may not even realize we're doing it.

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And what God is telling Moses to relay to the Israelites is that, Hey, you have that choice, but just know there are blessings and curses that come with this.

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And sometimes the blessings and the curses aren't even something that happens to you.

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It might happen to your children.

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It might happen to your grandchildren.

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I shared last time I preached about how, um, you know, the, the whole thing with reconnecting to people and, and, and reconcile- reconciling things.

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I wanted to share an update.

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So, I, I did what I told you I was gonna do and I, I contacted a relative

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And I contacted this relative and, and in the process, you know, I just

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I texted him, um, cause I'm a Millennial and we don't, we don't call people.

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I don't know if you knew that or not.

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So I texted him and, you know, Hey, you know, this is Todd.

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I just wanted you to know, uh, I preached this message and I did this thing and I felt like I needed to reach out to you.

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And I didn't hear anything back.

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And I saw that the text was read.

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They saw it.

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Sometimes we don't even get to see the blessings or the curses.

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Sometimes it's enough for us to know that we did what God has called us to do.

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We don't do things for God for the reward.

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We do them because we are now enslaved by a new master.

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That language sounds ominous, but, but this master is one that loves us, that cares for us.

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This master is a gentle one, and sometimes He calls us to do things that may not make any sense earthly here while we live.

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And sometimes we'll do things knowing He's called us to step out in faith that ultimately come back in, in our earthly way of thinking there's no return.

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The truth of the matter is, is that when we begin to live a crucified life, when we begin to kill the things in our life that causes pain and, and suffering and that are sin, that is when we truly begin to live.

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Because freedom is not just a status.

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It's not the status quo.

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It's not just a reality that we now just live.

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It's a mindset.

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We are looking actively to do things for the Kingdom of Heaven.

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We're looking actively to kill the things inside of us that, that, that are, are sin.

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We're looking to actively pursue good.

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So what's the mindset?

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I believe it's encapsulated pretty easily in this.

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John the Baptist, um, had disciples who were leaving to go and follow Jesus at 1 point.

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By the way, it was, this was his cousin.

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How weird is that?

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His cousin and, like, His disciples were leaving to go and follow his cousin and, like, I would've been upset about that, but John had a totally different take.

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When he was asked about it, he said this.

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You don't get it.

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He must increase.

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I must decrease.

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And I believe that the, the mindset is best described in that way.

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That my things, my junk, my garbage, all the things that are in my life decrease.

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He increases and He shines through my life.

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And He begins, people start to see glimmers of who He is and His love and His goodness and His grace through me and through you as well.

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So what does it mean to live a crucified life?

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first, we have to kill the things that Christ killed.

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We have to kill the things that Christ killed.

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Don't keep the old self on life support.

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It's time for it to die.

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Maybe for some of you that means that you've lived your whole life with this one struggle, this one thing, and you haven't even told your spouse about it, you've not told a pastor about it, you've not told anybody about this in your entire life and it's been a struggle.

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Maybe it was something that was done to you.

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Maybe it's something that you've done.

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It's time for it to be exposed.

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It's time for it to be come out in the open.

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The best way for things like that to be able to die is for them to be exposed.

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And light pushes back darkness, and we know that Jesus is the great light.

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Colossians 3:5 says this.

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It says, Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil, evil desire and covetousness, which is idolatry.

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These things must be dealt with.

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They must be exposed.

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I've been working on a list of my own.

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I have a list in my Bible of things that, like, I just, I just know.

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I can just take my Bible out and go, oh, God says that's sin.

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Okay.

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Sounds good.

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We gotta work on that.

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And I have people in my life who are accountability people who I go to and I show that list to them and I say, Hey, I'm an idiot.

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I need some help.

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And they're like, Well, duh.

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And we are gonna start talking and praying and working on this together.

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We gotta kill some of this stuff.

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We need to change our mental framework.

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We have to live from who God says we are, but not from how we feel.

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Your feelings lie to you.

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You know how I know that?

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Ice cream makes me feel great.

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But then I go to the doctor and the doctor says, No, buddy.

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You gotta not do that.

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Cause the more you eat, the worse you get.

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But boy is it great in the moment.

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I live a mile away from, from Durbin's in Barberton.

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That's a real problem for

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It's not a problem for Kelly.

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Kelly, Kelly's perfect.

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She, she enjoys that.

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But for me, it's a problem.

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You see, we have to begin to change the thought of how we feel.

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The truth of the matter is this.

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John 1:12 tells us who we are when we accept Jesus.

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It says, But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become what?

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Children of God.

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When you accept Him, you become His child.

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That's who you are.

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That's who you are when you, when you accept Him.

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You're no longer the old garbage that used to define who were.

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You're now His child.

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You have His last name.

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You have His everything.

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You are a part of the inheritance.

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You have those things.

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You've been sealed with the Holy Spirit, which is

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And, and given grace.

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What an amazing truth that is.

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Walk in the newness now, because resurrection life is for today.

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This is from the passage where I preached on last time.

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It says this.

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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.

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The old has passed away.

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Behold, the new has come.

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Bottom line is this.

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The cross sets you free to become who God created you to be.

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The cross sets you free to become who God created you to be.

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I'm gonna invite Dave to come back up on stage and play our final song.

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And I don't know what's going on in your life.

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But here's what I know.

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I know that that Emancipation Proclamation that was done, it set the sla- the slaves free.

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But it was many years until they truly were.

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Until they felt that they were free.

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Jesus Christ has set you free today, if you would accept Him.

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And that's a choice that you have to, to make, of whether or not you're gonna accept the gift or not.

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And if you've already accepted Him, how wonderful is that?

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But are you really free?

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Are you free?

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That's the question, and you have to answer.