October 23, 2025 • 52 mins
Pastor Tim Smith is breaking down These Walls of Condemnation. This is the kind of word that shifts something in your spirit and makes you realize you've been carrying weight that Jesus already removed.
If you've ever felt like God is keeping a record of your wrongs, if you've been exhausted trying to earn approval you already have, if shame has been your roommate you need to hear this.
Romans 8:1 says it plain: There is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus. But what does that actually mean for your life?
Find out in this powerful new episode. Get ready to be free!
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If you've ever felt like God is keeping a record of your wrongs, if you've been exhausted trying to earn approval you already have, if shame has been your roommate you need to hear this.
Romans 8:1 says it plain: There is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus. But what does that actually mean for your life?
Find out in this powerful new episode. Get ready to be free!
Subscribe now. New episodes drop every Friday.
If this message touched your heart or challenged you in any way, we're asking you to pass it along. Share it with someone in your life who needs to hear it. Your willingness to share doesn't just help us it extends God's Kingdom. It plants seeds. It opens doors. It points people back to Christ. That's the real mission. So don't keep it to yourself. Let it travel. Let it matter in someone else's life. Love & Need Ya!!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you living free? Are you still in prison? Because
Pastor Tim Smith is unpacking these walls of condemnation and
he's addressing something very serious. We build these mental prisons ourselves.
The door's unlocked, but we won't leave. Pastor Tim breaks
down Romans chapter eight, verse one in a way that'll
make you question everything you thought about guilt, shame, and
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God's acceptance. This is deep, this is powerful, This is
what you need to hear. Let's go get it.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Welcome to brothers and the Word, Ladies and gentlemen. My
name is Tim Smith. I am the youngest child of
Clara Jones. City is back up as a musk we outside.
Do me a favor, Please like love and offer this
teaching to someone who needs it. That's the only offering
that I will ask you for. Listen, before we jump
into this word today, I need you to grab your Bible,
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get a pin, get your notes, app open, take detailed notes.
Shout out to Shannon. She out here taking notes like
she's studying for a bar exam. Because what I'm about
to share with you today is not just information, but
I believe this is transformational. This is liberation teaching. So
right now, somebody listening to this teaching, you know who,
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you are sitting in a prison that you've built for yourself.
The door's unlocked, but you're still sitting there. Why Because
the walls in your mind are stronger than the walls
around your body. So today, what we're going to do
is we're going to bring a sledgehammer to these walls
of condemnation. This teaching is for the person who keeps
replaying yesterday's failures on the loop. This is for the
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one who thinks God is still mad about what you
did three years ago. This teaching is for the perfectionist,
the one who is exhausted from trying to earn what
was already freely given to you. So if you ever
felt like you're not enough, if you ever felt like
you've messed up too much, if you felt like God
is keeping a list and checking it twice, then I
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need you to buckle up because this word is custom
made for you. Let me give you an example before
we jump into this word, and I think this will
help you to understand what condemnation actually looks like because
it's not a word that we use often, but I
think it's a word that has many of us in track.
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So picture this picture. You're living in a house, a
complete glass house.
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From the floor to the ceiling, everything is glass, wall
to wall, everything is transparent, everything is exposed. But here's
what makes living in this glasshouse unbearable. On every single
piece of glass, your mistakes.
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Are written in permanent marker.
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Your failures are etched on the glass in bold letters.
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All your skins are.
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Displayed on this glass and high definition. So when you
wake up in the morning, the sun is trying to
break through, but before you can even see the beauty
of a new day, you.
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Know what you see.
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Your eyes are focused on the writing. The eyes are
focused on the acciations, the reminders, the evidence, the relationship
you destroyed because you couldn't control your temper.
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It's all written on the glass above your bed.
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That addiction that you swore you quit, but you keep
running back to it, that's plastered on the kitchen window.
That person who hurts you with words that they can
never take back, that's etched on the glass door.
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So every single day you're looking.
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At this, the promise you broke, the opportunity you waste it,
the mistake you keep repeating over and over like it's
stuck on replay every single morning, same routine. You reach
for joy, but your fingers touched shame instead. You're trying
to move forward, but it seems like everywhere you look
there's a reminder of where you've been. Sun is shining,
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but all you can see is shadow. And here's what
really messes you up. You can't hide it. It'll be
okay if you could hide it. But you can't hide it.
Why Because it's a glass house. Everybody walking by can
read your failures. Your family sees it, your friends see it.
You're living in a perpetual exposure, with no privacy at
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all from your past. So you try to cover up
some of the writing. You put up curtains, you avoid
looking at specific windows, but you know it's still there.
The accusations don't just disappear because you stop reading them.
This is what condemnation does. Condemnation turns your life into
a glass house where your mistakes are on permanent display,
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and it makes sure you never forget.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It ensures that you're always aware. It keeps you.
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Trapped in transparency, with your worst moments on repeat. And
here's where it even gets worse. That glass house isn't
just for show. Those writings aren't just reminders, you.
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Know what they are. They're evidence, They're true.
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Every accusation written on that glass, it becomes a charge
filed against you. Every single failure displayed becomes exhibit A, B,
C through Z, and it's a case being built against
you every day. So the transparency, it isn't just embarrassing
to you, it's damning to you because everybody who walks by,
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they don't just see your mistakes, they also witness your guilt.
And eventually, all that evidence, all those witnesses, all those accusations,
lead you into one place or courtroom, and now you
find yourself standing before the bench. Prosecutors reading the charges
sound familiar, because hey, this is what I did.
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Every single morning. I'm reminded of this.
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The evidence is overwhelming, your own consciences testifying against you.
The law has been broken, Justice demands payment, and right
before the gavel falls, the sentence is about to be
pronounced guilty, condemned, no way out.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
But then something happens.
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Someone steps into that courtroom who has the authority to
change everything. Not just a good lawyer, not just a
character witness, but the judge is on the son who
says I'll take their place, I'll serve this sentence, I'll
pay their debt, and all that shatters that glass house,
and then something new gets built.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And that's where we find ourselves today.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
In Romans, Chapter eight, Paul spends seven chapters laying out
the case against all of us. We're all guilty, Jews
and Gentiles alike, religious and irreligious, we've all sinned and
fallen short. The law couldn't save us. You know why
the law couldn't save us, because we couldn't keep the law.
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So Jesus shows up and he does what we couldn't
do for ourselves. So, family, your mission, should you choose
to squabble up, is this Today. I'm challenging you to
let this word tear down every single wall of condemnation
in your life, every wall of condemnation that you have
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been wrestling with. No more living under guilt. Us has
already removed, no more caring shame that He has already
taken from you. So today we're going to walk into
freedom that he purchased for us. I got to give
you a power word before we get started, and that
power word is therefore, and before we're going to understand
what the there for is there for because therefore is
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not just a transition word. It's a declaration that connects
our past to our present, our sin to our salvation,
our condemnation to our liberation. Therefore means, because of everything
that just happened, here's what's true.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Now.
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It is a Pauline word. It is a paul is
a word that Paul uses constantly in his writings. And
so whenever you read that word, therefore, what is telling
you to do is go backwards before you can come
forward to get the revelation of what Paul is saying.
If we just slide right into Romans chapter eight, verse
one without touching on those first seven chapters, we'll never
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appreciate Romans chapter eight, verse one. Let me go ahead
and read it for you. Roman chapter eight, verse one.
We're reading out of the English Standard version. It says,
there's therefore now no condemnation for those who are in
Christ Jesus. I want to read it one more time,
and I want you to read it as well. There
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is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in
Christ Jesus. I remember some years ago I read this
verse and tears just went down my eyes and I
just simply wrote in my Bible, not guilty, because that
was the verdict, and that is the verdict that is
being declared here. So there is therefore now no condemnation
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for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
But before we can break it.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Down again, you have to understand Paul's journey through Romans
chapter one, verse seven. You cannot appreciate the explosion of
Romans chapter eight, verse one without feeling the weight of
what came before, So going all the way back to
Romans chapter one. In Romans one, Paul exposed humanity's rebellion
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against God. He says, the final verdict is everyone is
guilty before a holy God. When you pull up the
Romans chapter two, Paul demolished religious pride, knowing that the
law doesn't exempt you from judgment. Romans chapter three one
of the most famous verses in your bible. For all
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have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
I believe that's Romans chapter three, verse twenty three. But
in the third chapter of Romans, Paul delivered that very
devastating verdict, all have sinned, all have fallen short. Then
what he does is he enter solution to this problem
because if he leaves it there, then, as Paul one
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said about if Jesus is not raised from the dead,
if he leaves it right there, then we're all miserable people.
So the solution to this problem in Romans chapter three,
he introduces justification through faith in Jesus Christ. When you
get to Romans chapter four, Paul is going to call
Abraham to the witness stand, and you're going to see
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righteous Abraham.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
He was credited by faith, not works.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
The Bible says God deposited righteousness into his account. Abraham
was the first person to ever receive a direct deposit.
When you get to Romans chapter five, Paul celebrated our
peace with God only through Jesus, because he says, where
sin increased, guess what, grace increased even more.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
And so now on the heels of that grace.
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When you pull up the Romans chapter six, Paul addresses
an issue that manyris Christians.
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Try to take advantage of.
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And Paul says, in Romans chapter six, should we keep
sinning so grace can increase? And with it resounding no, no,
we don't we die to sin through Christ. When you
get the Romans chapter seven, one of the most transparent
chapters in the entire bot in the entire Bible, Paul
described this brutal internal war that happens inside of all
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of us, but he describes it happening inside of him
in real time. He says that he wants to do good,
but he's unable to consistently do it.
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Have you ever been there? So he in.
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With a desperate cry. He says, who will deliver me
from the body of this death, before pointing to Jesus.
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So what do we have?
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We have seven chapters of building tension, seven chapters showing
you and I that we were condemned, we were trapped,
and we were helpless. Seven chapters of proof that no
matter how hard we try, we cannot save ourselves. And
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then Paul drops grace in our lapse in the Sound
of Romans, chapter eight, verse one. For whoever wants to
pick this verse up, please grab and take it with you.
That's why the word therefore hits different. That's why now
carries such urgency. That's why no condemnation sounds like music
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to our souls. That's why in Christ, Jesus is the
only place of refuge. If you taking notes, write this
down Wall number one, the wall of yesterday's mistake mistakes.
He says, there is therefore again, the word therefore is
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the It's the bridge, it's Paul saying, because of everything
I just told you in chapters one through seven, I
just told you about what Jesus did, he says, now
here's your new reality. See, we often struggle with our
yesterday's mistakes because that's the wall that most of us
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hit first. It's that voice in your head that keeps bringing.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Up your past.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It's that highlight reel of every failure, every sin, every
moment you wish you.
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Could take back.
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If this wall could talk, it would say, remember what
you did, Remember how you failed. You think God forgot
about that. Keep pretending you're free, but we both know
you're still guilty. But now here's the revelation to push
back against those voices. The word, therefore is a bridge
that takes you from guilty to forgiven, from condemned to justified,
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from dead to alive.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So the word therefore is not ignoring your past.
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It's acknowledging that your past has been dealt with. Look
at Romans chapter five, verse eight, very powerful verse. I
want you to write this verse down Paul says this,
But God shows his love for us in that while
we were sinners, Christ died for us. I think the
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most important word in that verse is wild while we
were still sinners, not after we cleaned up, not after
we went to church, not after we gave an offering.
While we were neck deep in our mess. The Bible says,
Jesus stepped in. Many people I talked to, they think
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that their past disqualifies them from their future. They think
yesterday cancels tomorrow.
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But again, look at that word.
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Therefore, therefore, what says, your past is the exact reason
why you need Jesus, and Jesus is the exact reason
your past doesn't define you anymore. Imagine you're carrying a
backpack full of rocks, and every single one of those
rocks inside that backpack represents a mistake, represents a sin,
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represents a failure. And the weight of that backpack is
crushing you. It's wearing you out, it's heavy, it's unbearable.
Now imagine this. Imagine someone says, hey, give me that
backpack and I'll carry it for you.
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That's what Jesus did. Now, think of how.
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Foolish it would be if you gave him the backpack,
he carried it away, and you're still walking around, hunched over,
like you're carrying a weight that's not even there anymore.
That's what condemnation does. Condemnation, if you're taking notes the nation,
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makes you carry weight that Jesus has already removed. The
Bible says, lay aside every weight in every sin that
so easily trips us up. See, this weight makes you
suffer for sins that Jesus has already paid for. So
Paul is saying, because of what Christ did, Therefore, your
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yesterday doesn't have the final say in your life. Your
mistakes don't have the last word. Therefore, connects your mess
to his message. Therefore connects your sin to his salvation.
Therefore connects your guilt to his grace. Now, let me
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ask you a question. While we're still standing behind this
first wall, are you still living like your past has
power over your present? Or are you walking in the
freedom of Therefore, let's go wall number two. Wall number
two is the wall of performance pressure. Look at that
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word now, one word, three letters, infinite implications. Now, not tomorrow,
not someday, not when you get to church, not when
you get better not when you have some money, not
when you're worthy. Now, the wall of performance pressure has
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so many believers exhausted running on this proverbial treadmill. They're
trying to earn what was already given to them as
a gift. They're performing for approval that they already have,
but many times they're performing for the approval of man.
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Think about it. If this walk to talk, it would
say you need to pray more, you need to read more,
you need to do more. You need to give more,
you need to tide more, you need to.
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Attend more, you need to be more.
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Then maybe God will accept you. Keep trying, work harder.
You almost there. But that's not the gospel. That's not grace.
What that is is works dressed up in religious clothing.
That's work speaking in religious jargon. That's slavery disguised as spirituality.
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That word now demolishes the timeline of performance. That word
now says you're standing with God. It's not based on
your future behavior, but on christ finished work. It's not
someday if you're good enough, No, it's right now. You
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know why, because He's good. And think about it. We
live in a now generation. We want everything now, fast, food,
fast internet, fast results, fast service at the restaurant. But
when it comes to our standing with God, we somehow
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think that's later. We think I'll be forgiven when I
stop sinning. I'll be accepted when I'm more obedient. God
will bless.
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Me when I give more money.
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But Paul says, no, now, not when you're perfect, not
when you've earned it. Now, at this very moment, you're
listening to my voice. Look at John chapter five, verse
twenty four. Listen to what Jesus says. Because it's so powerful,
and it's so simple, and it's so practical. But yet
and still we'll read it, and we'll walk away, and
we'll still feel like there's something that we have to
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go and do.
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John Chapter five, Verus twenty four.
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He says this, whoever hears my word and believes him
who sent me, has eternal life. The Father sent him.
He does not come into judgment, but has passed from
death to life.
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Let me read it one more time.
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Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me
has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but
has passed from death to life.
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Has passed, not will pass.
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Has passed, not will pass if you do something first
has passed, now already done. Deal, here's the revelation, right
just now. God's love for you is not in the
future tents, Right now, at this very moment, if you're
in Christ, there is no condemnation regardless of how you feel.
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It's not about your feelings, not later, not eventually, not
when you do a little.
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Better, but now. So this is what I need for
you to do.
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Please stop trying to get God to love you. Stop it.
He already loves you John three point sixteen. For God
so loved the world that he gave his only be
godden son, that whosoever believes in him would not perish
but have everlasting life. I believe Jesus says over in
John fifteen nine. As the Father has loved me. So
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if I love you, continue in my love. Paul writes
over in Romans five to five, and hope make it
not a shame, because the love of God is shed
abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is
given unto us.
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What did I just give you?
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I just gave you the love of the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit. The tryun God loves you, So
please stop trying to earn God's love. You're not working
to earn God's favor. You already have it. If anybody
is trying to make you work for God's favor, please
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run from that person. You are not striving to become worthy.
Christ has already made you worthy. And the pressure comes
off when you realize that your relationship with God is not.
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Based on your resume.
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It's not based on your education, it's not based on
your degrees. It's not based on what church you go
to with now, it's not based on who your pastor is.
It's simply based on his righteousness. It's not about your
track record. It's about the finished work of Christ on
the Cross. And I'm talking to someone right now who's
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been trying to earn God's love through religious activity. Let
me tell you right now, the only thing that's going
to do is going to leave you burnout. It's going
to leave you exhausted. So here's your liberation, right here,
right now. You don't have to earn what Jesus already purchased.
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You don't have to work for what He freely gave you.
And I'm gonna leave that right there for whoever wants
to pick it up. Whoever wants to pick that up,
that's yours. You don't have to earn what Jesus already purchased.
You don't have to work for what he freely gave.
Let's bring in Ephesians chapter two, verse eight and nine.
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Ephesians Chapter two, verses eight and nine, he says this.
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Paul writes these words to the saint. To Ephesus, he says,
for by grace.
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You have been saved past tense through faith, and this
is not your doing.
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You had nothing to do with this.
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It is the gift of God, not a result of works,
So that no one may boast. Do you realize how
much people are out here striving to earn salvation? Do
you know how much people are striving out here to
speak in tongue? Do you know how much people are
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striving out here to be baptized in the name of
the Father Son and Holy Ghost and Casper, the Friendly Ghost.
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Stop we doing way too much.
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We doing what God has not even put on us
to do. There is nothing that God is asking of
you to do, for by grace you have been saved.
Think of all of these other entities that people try
to get salvation through. When the body says, you've been
saved by grace through faith. You didn't do it yourself.
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It's a gift. All you have to do is receive
the gift. All you have to do is enjoy the gift.
It's not a result of your works. The reason why
it's not a result of your works is because God
knows us, He knows our propensities. He knows we would
be out here trying to brag about what we did.
So he said, you know what, let me just take
that off the table. Here it is, it's in your account.
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It's done.
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Grace means you can't earn it.
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Faith means just receive it. Gift means it's free. Got it.
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Good question for you. Are you exhausted from trying to
perform for God? Or are you resting in what Christ
has already performed for you?
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Let that marinate in your spirit.
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Wall number three, this is the wall of unworthiness.
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And that's what Paul says. No condemnation.
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These two words are the detonators that destroy the prison
of guilt and shame. No condemnation, not less condemnation, not
reduced condemnation. He says, no condemnation. There's no ambiguity here.
The word translated no. And this is so amazing to me.
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And this is just the nuance of scripture that I
absolutely love because that word no, it is the strongest
negative in the Greek language. It means absolutely, not zero, none, never,
and condemnation means guilty, verdict with punishment.
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That's what condemnation means.
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So Paul is literally saying absolutely zero, guilty, verdict with
punishment for those in Christ Jesus, none, not one, never.
But you see this wall of unworthiness. It whispers constantly.
This wall is always speaking You're not worthy, you're not
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good enough, you're too far gone. You've messed up too
many times. You keep doing the same thing over and over.
There's no coming back from what you did. But here's
the revelation that I pray will set you free. You're
absolutely right, you're not worthy. I'm not worthy. None of
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us are worthy.
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And that's the whole point.
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That's the point that Paul has been building upon for
seven chapters.
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Here it is right here.
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The gospel is not that you're worthy. The gospel is
that Christ makes us worthy. That's the gospel. It's not
that we deserve it, No, it's that He died for
the undeserving. It's not that we're good enough, it is
that He is good enough. Remember Romans chapter five, verse eight.
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While we were sinners, Christ died for the ungodly. In
the court of law, condemnation is the final verdict and
is followed by the sentence. It's the gabbel coming down
with all his finality, and Paul is saying that for
those in Christ, Jesus, Paul is saying that verdict has
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been overturned, that sentence has been commuted, the charges have
been dropped, the case has been dismissed.
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I believe the story.
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Is in the Gospel of John chapter eight, and in
that chapter there is a woman taken in the act
of adultery. Somehow another these religious leaders were watching this woman,
they were spying on her. But nevertheless, the Bible says
she was called in the act. And they don't bring
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the man, but they bring her. And Jesus is having
a prayer meeting, and they throw the woman.
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At Jesus' feet and they tell Jesus the law of
Moses says, we are the stone this woman. But what
you got to say about that?
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And so Jesus doesn't open his mouth and say a word.
The Bible says, he just began to write in the dirt,
and one by one those men begin to walk away.
He says, let him without sin cast the first stone. Okay,
if y'all got her, she's guilty. But I tell you what,
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this is the prerequisite. If you have no sin in
your life, then you pick up a stone and you
start stoning her. So he goes back to riding in
the dirt, and the Bible says, one by one, her
accusers walked away, and then finally she's left standing there
with Jesus. Jesus asked the woman, where are your accusers?
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She said, I have none. He says, neither do I
accuse you. Neither do I condemn you. He says, go
and sin no more. Her case was dropped right there,
And that's what I need someone to grab today.
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The charges that you have been charging yourself.
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With due to the mistakes, due to the way things
have turned out for you, due to the way life
is right now in this season for you, Please stop
charging yourself, Please stop bringing these accusations against yourself. Because
Jesus is saying, I don't accuse you either. Imagine if
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he tells her I don't accuse you either. But she
says to all, Jesus, you got you got to stone me. Jesus,
that's what the law of Moses said. Yeah, that is
what the law of Moses said.
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But what he demonstrated to her in that moment.
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If you ever want to know what grace looks like,
go read John chapter eight about the story of Jesus
and the woman taken in the act of adultery, because
that's what grace is. Grace gives you what you don't deserve.
Grace gives you what you didn't earn, even though the
verdict says guilty. Let me bring in the scripture Romans,
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chapter five, verse nine, Paul writes these words. He says,
since therefore there's that word again. We have now been
justified by his blood. Much more shall we be saved
by him from the wrath of God. Justified is a
very important word. Justified actually comes before salvation. Justified means
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declared righteous. God looked at Christ's righteousness, and he credited
to your account, and he declared you righteous based on
his righteousness.
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So now you're not guilty. You have been acquitted.
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But here's what messes people up, and it's my prayer
that I can clear to suff for anyone who may
not know the difference. Many people confuse conviction with condemnation.
Conviction is the Holy Spirit showing you where you need
to grow. Remember what Jesus said over in John chapter sixteen.
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He said, I have to leave. He's telling he was
talking to his disciples in the upper room. He said,
I have to leave. He said, but I'm going to
send you back my Holy Spirit, the comforter, and he
said he will lead and guide you.
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Into all truth. He also told talked.
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About the Holy Spirit convicting and reproving as well. So
the Holy Spirit will show you where you need to grow,
what areas of your life you need to grow in,
what areas of your life you need to walk in maturity?
And it's very specific. And what conviction does is it
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leads you to repentance. The beauty about conviction is that
it is redemptive. Condemnation, on the other hand, condemnation is
the enemy beating you up about your past, beating you
up about your mistakes, holding it over your head. Condemnation
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is vague and it leads many people to despair. And
condemnation is very destructive. Oftentimes people get caught up in
their mind with condemnation just bouncing back and forth, and
they don't know how to escape that. So here's the
difference between the two, between conviction and condemnation. Conviction points
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you to Jesus. Condemnation pushes you away from Jesus. So
that's how you will know going forward. You make a mistake,
does that mistake lead you to Jesus? Or does that
mistake make you want to run away from Jesus? So
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Paul is saying here in Romeans, chapter eight, verse one,
there is therefore now no condemnation none. The Holy Spirit
will convict you to grow you, but God will never
condemn you to destroy you. You have the difference between
the two. And I'm talking to somebody right now who's
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been living under a cloud of condemnation. You wake up guilty,
you go to bed feeling ashamed. Let me tell you something,
and I hope that this will help you. If you're
in Christ, God is not mad at you. Please hear me.
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God delights in you. He's not keeping a record wrongs.
He threw that record into the sea of forgetfulness. Remember
what the psalmon said, as far as the east is
from the West. God remembers your sin no more. So
I need someone to just allow that to marinate in
your spirit, because I get it sometimes. And this is
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why the Bible says in Jeremih chapter seventeen, verse nine,
the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked.
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Who can know it? Because sometimes we make mistakes that
we look at.
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It like, I can't believe I did that. I can't
believe I said that. I can't believe that happened to me.
That's because the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. This
is the war of Paul was talking about in Romans
chapter seven, the good that I would do. I find
another law warring in my spirit. Imagine he used the
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word law that means an authority.
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So this thing is.
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Trying to bring you into bondage. But you have to
allow yourself to see the risen Christ. Paul. I'm sorry,
not Paul, but Peter. Peter said it's not God's will
that any of us should perish, but that we all
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would come unto repentance. That's God's delight, that's God's desire
for you. So if we fall, as the Bible says,
a just man falls seven times, but what does he do?
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He gets back up. So I got a question for you.
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Are you right now in this moment, are you living
under the weight of condemnation or are you walking in
the freedom of no condemnation. There are only two paths there,
and either you're on the first path or you're on
the second path. But if you're on that first path,
I need you get on the second path. Please do
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not live under the weight of condemnation. Walk in the
freedom of no condemnation. Walk into freedom of not guilty.
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Please do that.
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Wal number four, the wall of false identity. Here's the
last part of the verse. He says, for those who
are in Christ Jesus, this is the key that unlocks everything.
If Paul doesn't say this, then we're still guilty in
Christ Jesus. That phrase in Christ appears over eighty times
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in Paul's letters. This is a go to statement. This
is a go to phrase that Paul loves to use.
So when he says in Christ, just location, it'sification, that's
what he's talking about.
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It's union.
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You're not just near Christ, your Christ. I believe it's
found over any Esians chapter two, where Paul writes that
God has made us sit together in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus. That's already done. That's not something that we're
waiting for and to sweep by and by after a while.
See this wall of false identity. It keeps people trapped
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even when they know about grace, because they still define
themselves by their past, their mistakes, their struggles, their failures,
their labels, their trauma. And if this wall could talk,
it would say, that's just who you are. You're an addict,
you're a failure, your damage goods. Nobody wants you. That's
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your identity. That's what you'll always be. But Paul says,
your identity, it's not based on what you've done, but
it's based on what's been done to you. Your identity
based on who you in Christ Jesus. That's your identity.
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That's your identity, whether you like it or not. When
you place your faith in Jesus, you were united with him,
whether you like it or not. His death became your
death to sin, His resurrection became your resurrection to new life.
His righteousness became your righteousness.
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Get this. His standing with the Father became your standing
with the Father. And it's like this imagine a check
for one million dollars.
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That check is only valuable if it has the signature
of someone who actually has one million dollars in their account.
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Your life is like that check. It has no value
on its own.
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But when your life is in Christ, when your life
bears his name, when it's backed.
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By His account, suddenly everything changes. I believe.
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The Bible says, Alreadyphesians, chapter one, verse three, we have
been blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places, already
done in the account. But here's the thing. We don't
access the account. We never go and draw from your
account because we're so busy looking at ourselves in the
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mirror and putting labels on ourselves. You're not righteous because
you live right. You're not righteous because you go to church.
You're righteous because you're in the righteous one. The Bible says,
there's none righteous, no, not one. We have to be
in Christ in order to be righteous. We're not righteous
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on our own. We a mess on our own. You're
not forgiven because you stop sinning. No, you're forgiven because
you're in the one who paid for your sin. You're
not accepted because you're an acceptable person. You're accepted because
you're in the one who is fully accepted. Whenever you
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get a chance, you should just go and read Ephesians
chapter one.
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It will blow your.
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Mind all of the things that God has, that Jesus
has already done for you. And it's just verse after
verse after verse after verse after verse. And we never
take the time to read what God has already done
for us because we're so busy running like Hampster's trying
to get the next blessing. And Ephesians chapter one, verse six,
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Paul writes this, He says, to the praise of the
glory of his grace, wherein He has made us accepted
in the Beloved. He made us accepted in the Beloved.
Jesus is the beloved. You're not striving to become the
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Beloved's favored. You already are because you're in the Beloved.
That's your identity, that's your standing right now, that's your
unshakable position with God.
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Before we came on, we.
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Were just talking about how there's just so many things
that many Christians don't even realize it's theirs, it's already theirs,
and we spend so much time striving to make things happen.
And oftentimes as Christians, we're just not taught. We're taught
to come to church, We're taught to run around, we
taught to give, we talked to have a good time
and dress nights and all of that, but nobody is
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taking the time to sit down with you and show
you in the Word who you are and who you are.
And that's the whole purpose of what we're trying to
do right now, because I believe there is a remnant
of God's people who want the Word, not all this
foolishness that we see coming out of these churches on
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social media. So, now here's the kicker. Why did God
do all of this? If you look back at that
verse in Ephesians, chapter one, verse six, if you take
a real good look at that verse, the reason why
God did all of this is to show off his grace,
Your transformation, your redemption, your acceptance, its acceptance. It's all
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designed to display the incomparable grace of God to the
entire universe. He's going to touch on this again over
in chapter two of Ephesians. So here's what I need
you to do. Stop trying to earn what you've already
been given. Start praising God for the grace that has
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already made you accept it. Let's get one more verse
of confirmation. It's found over in Galatians, Hips two, verse twenty. Galatians,
Chapter two, verse twenty. Paul writes these words to the
saints in Galatia. Paul says, I been crucified with Christ
in the world. Is that possible? Paul, You're alive, your writingness,
How can this action be true?
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He says?
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It is no longer I who live, but Christ, who
lives in me, and the life I now live in
the flesh. I live by faith in the Son of God,
who loved me and gave himself for me.
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Crucified with Christ. That means family.
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You died with him, you were buried with him, you
were raised with him. Your identity is wrapped up in
his identity. You cannot separate the two. And here's the revelation.
And this is why there's no condemnation. It's not because
you're perfect. It's because you're in the perfect one. It's
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not because you're sinless. It's because you're in the sinless one.
It's not because you deserve it. It's because you're in
the one who earned it. The reason there's no condemnation
for those in Christ, says is because God doesn't look.
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At you apart from Christ.
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And if you could just get that right there, it'll
begin to change how you view yourself. God can't even
look at one of his sons and daughters and not
see Christ.
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He sees you and his son.
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When God looks at you, he sees Christ's righteousness covering you.
Nothing you've done is what He has already done. So
I'm talking to somebody right now finding themselves by the past.
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You say I'm a divorcee. Got it. No, You're in Christ.
You say I'm an at it? Got it? No, You're
in Christ. You say I'm a failure. Got it?
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No, You're in Christ. Your past doesn't define you. Christ
identifies you. Second Corinthians, Chapter five, verse twenty one. For
our sake. He made him, Jesus, to be sin, who
knew no sin. Why so that in him we might
become the righteousness of God.
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I can't make it any clearer than this family. I can't.
In Him.
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In Christ, we become the righteousness of God.
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That's who you are.
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You need to start speaking to your true identity. You're
not just a sinner. Saved by grace. You're a saint
who still struggles with sin. You're not trying to get
to heaven.
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You are a.
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Citizen of Heaven living temporarily on earth. You're not defined
by your worst moment. You're defined by His best moment
on the cross. Final question for you, are you defining
yourself by your past and your struggles, or are you
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embracing your identity in Christ Jesus. Hear these walls of condemnation.
They're serious, But we've just dismantled.
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Four of these walls.
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The wall of Yesterday's mistake demolished therefore, which connects our
past to Christ finished work. The wall of performance pressure
destroyed by the word now, which declares that our freedom
is immediate. Our freedom is now, Our freedom is here,
It's not something that we have to wait on. The
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wall of unworthiness obliterated by no condemnation, which means absolutely
zero guilty verdict. The wall of false identity demolished how
in Christ Jesus, because that's your true identity, that's our
true identity. There is therefore now no condemnation to those
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to them who are in Christ Jesus. So please hear me.
This is not just a doctrine. Romans Chapter eight, verse
one is your emancipation of proclamation. Romans Chapter eight, verse
one is your declaration of independence, your independence from guilt,
your independence from shame, your independence from condemnation. So, right now,
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wherever you are, wherever you're listening to this, I need
you to feel the weight of this truth, because some
of you have been living behind these walls of condemnation
for years, decades, your whole life. You've been imprisoned by guilt.
You've been imprisoned by your past, by past mistakes. You've
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been shackled by shame. You've been tormented by your past.
But today, in this moment, God is declaring over your life,
no condemnation.
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That's it, no condemnation.
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Not because you earned it, No, not because you deserve it, No,
but because Jesus paid for it, purchased it, provided it
through his death on the cross and his resurrection from
the grave. So you don't have to live in that
prison anymore. You don't have to go and have somebody
slap oil all over your head and all over your
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body and pray for you. No, the door is wide open,
the chains are broken, the walls are down, the glasshouse
is shattered, no accusations whatsoever. And it hurts me and
it breaks my heart when I see saints who've been
punishing themselves for sin that God has already forgiven you.
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For you've been condemning yourself when God already justified you.
So today, right here, in this moment, these walls of
condemnation are down. Come out wherever you are, not next week,
not when you feel better, today, now right now, at
this very moment. So let me give you these three
call to actions. Call to action number one, demolish the
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walls in your mind today every single time that condemnation
tries to build a new wall in your mind. What
you are going to do is you're going to speak
Romans chapter eight, verse one out loud. That means you're
going to have to learn Romans chapter eight, verse one
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to speak it out loud. Remember these walls of temptations,
Jesus just simply stood on the work. Now here's your
chance to stand on the word of God and speak
it to your own mind. Say it when you wake
up in the morning, Say it when the enemy attacks,
Say it when the tears are rolling down your eyes.
Say it when shame tries to creep in. There is
therefore now no condemnation, not guilty satan for those who
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are in Christ Jesus. Make this verse your battle cry.
Write it on your mirror. Get your momentum started now
for twenty twenty six. Don't wait for twenty twenty six.
Let's start doing the work now. Write this verse on
your mirror. Set it as your phone background. Let it
become the soundtrack of your soul. Speak God's word.
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Over your own life.
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Be so busy waiting for somebody else. Man, Lay hands
on your head and pray for yourself. Pray for your mind,
Pray for your thinking. Pray that your thoughts will be
in alignment with the word of God's.
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You take action. Let's stop all this waiting on somebody
else to do it. You do it.
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Call it action number two. I need you to redefine
your identity. Make a list right now, when you get
a chance, make a list. On one side, I want
you to write down every negative label label that you
have been carrying. And then on the other side of
the paper, I want you to write who God says
you are in Christ Jesus. Just from this lesson, destroy
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that first list so you can write these on two
separate pieces of paper.
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Destroy that first.
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List, rip it up, delete it, and then I want
you to start speaking your true identity every single day.
You are not your past, you are not your mistakes.
You are in Christ Jesus. You have to speak that.
You have to put that into the atmosphere. Release it,
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and these walls will come down in your life. Call
to action number three. I want you to share your freedom.
Share your freedom. If this teaching freed you, if this
teaching has knocked down at least one wall in your life,
I need you to share it. God, I pray for
every person hearing this word right now, demolish the walls
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in their mind, destroy the strongholds of guilt in the
prison of condemnation. Father, I pray that you will shatter
the glass house of their past. Help them God, to
stop agreeing with the enemy and start agreeing with your word.
Let them feel your love right now.
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Father.
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Let them know that they're forgiven and accepted and free.
We thank you Lord that because of Jesus, we are forgiven,
we are justified, and we are free in Jesus Mighty name.
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Amen, I'm so glad you spent this time with us
Pastor Tim has deposited something powerful into your spirit today
and I want you to guard it. Next week we're
back with these walls of religion, another prison the enemy
has built that's keeping people trapped. Bring your friends, bring
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Thank you for allowing us to serve you, to challenge you,
and to point you back to Jesus. Remember, get into
the Word of God, and the Word of God will
get into you.
Are you living free? Are you still in prison? Because
Pastor Tim Smith is unpacking these walls of condemnation and
he's addressing something very serious. We build these mental prisons ourselves.
The door's unlocked, but we won't leave. Pastor Tim breaks
down Romans chapter eight, verse one in a way that'll
make you question everything you thought about guilt, shame, and
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God's acceptance. This is deep, this is powerful, This is
what you need to hear. Let's go get it.
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Welcome to brothers and the Word, Ladies and gentlemen. My
name is Tim Smith. I am the youngest child of
Clara Jones. City is back up as a musk we outside.
Do me a favor, Please like love and offer this
teaching to someone who needs it. That's the only offering
that I will ask you for. Listen, before we jump
into this word today, I need you to grab your Bible,
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get a pin, get your notes, app open, take detailed notes.
Shout out to Shannon. She out here taking notes like
she's studying for a bar exam. Because what I'm about
to share with you today is not just information, but
I believe this is transformational. This is liberation teaching. So
right now, somebody listening to this teaching, you know who,
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you are sitting in a prison that you've built for yourself.
The door's unlocked, but you're still sitting there. Why Because
the walls in your mind are stronger than the walls
around your body. So today, what we're going to do
is we're going to bring a sledgehammer to these walls
of condemnation. This teaching is for the person who keeps
replaying yesterday's failures on the loop. This is for the
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one who thinks God is still mad about what you
did three years ago. This teaching is for the perfectionist,
the one who is exhausted from trying to earn what
was already freely given to you. So if you ever
felt like you're not enough, if you ever felt like
you've messed up too much, if you felt like God
is keeping a list and checking it twice, then I
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need you to buckle up because this word is custom
made for you. Let me give you an example before
we jump into this word, and I think this will
help you to understand what condemnation actually looks like because
it's not a word that we use often, but I
think it's a word that has many of us in track.
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So picture this picture. You're living in a house, a
complete glass house.
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From the floor to the ceiling, everything is glass, wall
to wall, everything is transparent, everything is exposed. But here's
what makes living in this glasshouse unbearable. On every single
piece of glass, your mistakes.
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Are written in permanent marker.
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Your failures are etched on the glass in bold letters.
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All your skins are.
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Displayed on this glass and high definition. So when you
wake up in the morning, the sun is trying to
break through, but before you can even see the beauty
of a new day, you.
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Know what you see.
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Your eyes are focused on the writing. The eyes are
focused on the acciations, the reminders, the evidence, the relationship
you destroyed because you couldn't control your temper.
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It's all written on the glass above your bed.
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That addiction that you swore you quit, but you keep
running back to it, that's plastered on the kitchen window.
That person who hurts you with words that they can
never take back, that's etched on the glass door.
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So every single day you're looking.
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At this, the promise you broke, the opportunity you waste it,
the mistake you keep repeating over and over like it's
stuck on replay every single morning, same routine. You reach
for joy, but your fingers touched shame instead. You're trying
to move forward, but it seems like everywhere you look
there's a reminder of where you've been. Sun is shining,
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but all you can see is shadow. And here's what
really messes you up. You can't hide it. It'll be
okay if you could hide it. But you can't hide it.
Why Because it's a glass house. Everybody walking by can
read your failures. Your family sees it, your friends see it.
You're living in a perpetual exposure, with no privacy at
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all from your past. So you try to cover up
some of the writing. You put up curtains, you avoid
looking at specific windows, but you know it's still there.
The accusations don't just disappear because you stop reading them.
This is what condemnation does. Condemnation turns your life into
a glass house where your mistakes are on permanent display,
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and it makes sure you never forget.
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It ensures that you're always aware. It keeps you.
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Trapped in transparency, with your worst moments on repeat. And
here's where it even gets worse. That glass house isn't
just for show. Those writings aren't just reminders, you.
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Know what they are. They're evidence, They're true.
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Every accusation written on that glass, it becomes a charge
filed against you. Every single failure displayed becomes exhibit A, B,
C through Z, and it's a case being built against
you every day. So the transparency, it isn't just embarrassing
to you, it's damning to you because everybody who walks by,
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they don't just see your mistakes, they also witness your guilt.
And eventually, all that evidence, all those witnesses, all those accusations,
lead you into one place or courtroom, and now you
find yourself standing before the bench. Prosecutors reading the charges
sound familiar, because hey, this is what I did.
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Every single morning. I'm reminded of this.
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The evidence is overwhelming, your own consciences testifying against you.
The law has been broken, Justice demands payment, and right
before the gavel falls, the sentence is about to be
pronounced guilty, condemned, no way out.
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But then something happens.
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Someone steps into that courtroom who has the authority to
change everything. Not just a good lawyer, not just a
character witness, but the judge is on the son who
says I'll take their place, I'll serve this sentence, I'll
pay their debt, and all that shatters that glass house,
and then something new gets built.
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And that's where we find ourselves today.
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In Romans, Chapter eight, Paul spends seven chapters laying out
the case against all of us. We're all guilty, Jews
and Gentiles alike, religious and irreligious, we've all sinned and
fallen short. The law couldn't save us. You know why
the law couldn't save us, because we couldn't keep the law.
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So Jesus shows up and he does what we couldn't
do for ourselves. So, family, your mission, should you choose
to squabble up, is this Today. I'm challenging you to
let this word tear down every single wall of condemnation
in your life, every wall of condemnation that you have
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been wrestling with. No more living under guilt. Us has
already removed, no more caring shame that He has already
taken from you. So today we're going to walk into
freedom that he purchased for us. I got to give
you a power word before we get started, and that
power word is therefore, and before we're going to understand
what the there for is there for because therefore is
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not just a transition word. It's a declaration that connects
our past to our present, our sin to our salvation,
our condemnation to our liberation. Therefore means, because of everything
that just happened, here's what's true.
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Now.
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It is a Pauline word. It is a paul is
a word that Paul uses constantly in his writings. And
so whenever you read that word, therefore, what is telling
you to do is go backwards before you can come
forward to get the revelation of what Paul is saying.
If we just slide right into Romans chapter eight, verse
one without touching on those first seven chapters, we'll never
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appreciate Romans chapter eight, verse one. Let me go ahead
and read it for you. Roman chapter eight, verse one.
We're reading out of the English Standard version. It says,
there's therefore now no condemnation for those who are in
Christ Jesus. I want to read it one more time,
and I want you to read it as well. There
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is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in
Christ Jesus. I remember some years ago I read this
verse and tears just went down my eyes and I
just simply wrote in my Bible, not guilty, because that
was the verdict, and that is the verdict that is
being declared here. So there is therefore now no condemnation
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for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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But before we can break it.
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Down again, you have to understand Paul's journey through Romans
chapter one, verse seven. You cannot appreciate the explosion of
Romans chapter eight, verse one without feeling the weight of
what came before, So going all the way back to
Romans chapter one. In Romans one, Paul exposed humanity's rebellion
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against God. He says, the final verdict is everyone is
guilty before a holy God. When you pull up the
Romans chapter two, Paul demolished religious pride, knowing that the
law doesn't exempt you from judgment. Romans chapter three one
of the most famous verses in your bible. For all
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have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
I believe that's Romans chapter three, verse twenty three. But
in the third chapter of Romans, Paul delivered that very
devastating verdict, all have sinned, all have fallen short. Then
what he does is he enter solution to this problem
because if he leaves it there, then, as Paul one
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said about if Jesus is not raised from the dead,
if he leaves it right there, then we're all miserable people.
So the solution to this problem in Romans chapter three,
he introduces justification through faith in Jesus Christ. When you
get to Romans chapter four, Paul is going to call
Abraham to the witness stand, and you're going to see
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righteous Abraham.
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He was credited by faith, not works.
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The Bible says God deposited righteousness into his account. Abraham
was the first person to ever receive a direct deposit.
When you get to Romans chapter five, Paul celebrated our
peace with God only through Jesus, because he says, where
sin increased, guess what, grace increased even more.
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And so now on the heels of that grace.
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When you pull up the Romans chapter six, Paul addresses
an issue that manyris Christians.
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Try to take advantage of.
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And Paul says, in Romans chapter six, should we keep
sinning so grace can increase? And with it resounding no, no,
we don't we die to sin through Christ. When you
get the Romans chapter seven, one of the most transparent
chapters in the entire bot in the entire Bible, Paul
described this brutal internal war that happens inside of all
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of us, but he describes it happening inside of him
in real time. He says that he wants to do good,
but he's unable to consistently do it.
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Have you ever been there? So he in.
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With a desperate cry. He says, who will deliver me
from the body of this death, before pointing to Jesus.
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So what do we have?
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We have seven chapters of building tension, seven chapters showing
you and I that we were condemned, we were trapped,
and we were helpless. Seven chapters of proof that no
matter how hard we try, we cannot save ourselves. And
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then Paul drops grace in our lapse in the Sound
of Romans, chapter eight, verse one. For whoever wants to
pick this verse up, please grab and take it with you.
That's why the word therefore hits different. That's why now
carries such urgency. That's why no condemnation sounds like music
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to our souls. That's why in Christ, Jesus is the
only place of refuge. If you taking notes, write this
down Wall number one, the wall of yesterday's mistake mistakes.
He says, there is therefore again, the word therefore is
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the It's the bridge, it's Paul saying, because of everything
I just told you in chapters one through seven, I
just told you about what Jesus did, he says, now
here's your new reality. See, we often struggle with our
yesterday's mistakes because that's the wall that most of us
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hit first. It's that voice in your head that keeps bringing.
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Up your past.
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It's that highlight reel of every failure, every sin, every
moment you wish you.
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Could take back.
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If this wall could talk, it would say, remember what
you did, Remember how you failed. You think God forgot
about that. Keep pretending you're free, but we both know
you're still guilty. But now here's the revelation to push
back against those voices. The word, therefore is a bridge
that takes you from guilty to forgiven, from condemned to justified,
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from dead to alive.
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So the word therefore is not ignoring your past.
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It's acknowledging that your past has been dealt with. Look
at Romans chapter five, verse eight, very powerful verse. I
want you to write this verse down Paul says this,
But God shows his love for us in that while
we were sinners, Christ died for us. I think the
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most important word in that verse is wild while we
were still sinners, not after we cleaned up, not after
we went to church, not after we gave an offering.
While we were neck deep in our mess. The Bible says,
Jesus stepped in. Many people I talked to, they think
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that their past disqualifies them from their future. They think
yesterday cancels tomorrow.
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But again, look at that word.
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Therefore, therefore, what says, your past is the exact reason
why you need Jesus, and Jesus is the exact reason
your past doesn't define you anymore. Imagine you're carrying a
backpack full of rocks, and every single one of those
rocks inside that backpack represents a mistake, represents a sin,
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represents a failure. And the weight of that backpack is
crushing you. It's wearing you out, it's heavy, it's unbearable.
Now imagine this. Imagine someone says, hey, give me that
backpack and I'll carry it for you.
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That's what Jesus did. Now, think of how.
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Foolish it would be if you gave him the backpack,
he carried it away, and you're still walking around, hunched over,
like you're carrying a weight that's not even there anymore.
That's what condemnation does. Condemnation, if you're taking notes the nation,
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makes you carry weight that Jesus has already removed. The
Bible says, lay aside every weight in every sin that
so easily trips us up. See, this weight makes you
suffer for sins that Jesus has already paid for. So
Paul is saying, because of what Christ did, Therefore, your
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yesterday doesn't have the final say in your life. Your
mistakes don't have the last word. Therefore, connects your mess
to his message. Therefore connects your sin to his salvation.
Therefore connects your guilt to his grace. Now, let me
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ask you a question. While we're still standing behind this
first wall, are you still living like your past has
power over your present? Or are you walking in the
freedom of Therefore, let's go wall number two. Wall number
two is the wall of performance pressure. Look at that
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word now, one word, three letters, infinite implications. Now, not tomorrow,
not someday, not when you get to church, not when
you get better not when you have some money, not
when you're worthy. Now, the wall of performance pressure has
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so many believers exhausted running on this proverbial treadmill. They're
trying to earn what was already given to them as
a gift. They're performing for approval that they already have,
but many times they're performing for the approval of man.
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Think about it. If this walk to talk, it would
say you need to pray more, you need to read more,
you need to do more. You need to give more,
you need to tide more, you need to.
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Attend more, you need to be more.
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Then maybe God will accept you. Keep trying, work harder.
You almost there. But that's not the gospel. That's not grace.
What that is is works dressed up in religious clothing.
That's work speaking in religious jargon. That's slavery disguised as spirituality.
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That word now demolishes the timeline of performance. That word
now says you're standing with God. It's not based on
your future behavior, but on christ finished work. It's not
someday if you're good enough, No, it's right now. You
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know why, because He's good. And think about it. We
live in a now generation. We want everything now, fast, food,
fast internet, fast results, fast service at the restaurant. But
when it comes to our standing with God, we somehow
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think that's later. We think I'll be forgiven when I
stop sinning. I'll be accepted when I'm more obedient. God
will bless.
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Me when I give more money.
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But Paul says, no, now, not when you're perfect, not
when you've earned it. Now, at this very moment, you're
listening to my voice. Look at John chapter five, verse
twenty four. Listen to what Jesus says. Because it's so powerful,
and it's so simple, and it's so practical. But yet
and still we'll read it, and we'll walk away, and
we'll still feel like there's something that we have to
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go and do.
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John Chapter five, Verus twenty four.
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He says this, whoever hears my word and believes him
who sent me, has eternal life. The Father sent him.
He does not come into judgment, but has passed from
death to life.
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Let me read it one more time.
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Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me
has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but
has passed from death to life.
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Has passed, not will pass.
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Has passed, not will pass if you do something first
has passed, now already done. Deal, here's the revelation, right
just now. God's love for you is not in the
future tents, Right now, at this very moment, if you're
in Christ, there is no condemnation regardless of how you feel.
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It's not about your feelings, not later, not eventually, not
when you do a little.
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Better, but now. So this is what I need for
you to do.
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Please stop trying to get God to love you. Stop it.
He already loves you John three point sixteen. For God
so loved the world that he gave his only be
godden son, that whosoever believes in him would not perish
but have everlasting life. I believe Jesus says over in
John fifteen nine. As the Father has loved me. So
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if I love you, continue in my love. Paul writes
over in Romans five to five, and hope make it
not a shame, because the love of God is shed
abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is
given unto us.
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What did I just give you?
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I just gave you the love of the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit. The tryun God loves you, So
please stop trying to earn God's love. You're not working
to earn God's favor. You already have it. If anybody
is trying to make you work for God's favor, please
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run from that person. You are not striving to become worthy.
Christ has already made you worthy. And the pressure comes
off when you realize that your relationship with God is not.
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Based on your resume.
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It's not based on your education, it's not based on
your degrees. It's not based on what church you go
to with now, it's not based on who your pastor is.
It's simply based on his righteousness. It's not about your
track record. It's about the finished work of Christ on
the Cross. And I'm talking to someone right now who's
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been trying to earn God's love through religious activity. Let
me tell you right now, the only thing that's going
to do is going to leave you burnout. It's going
to leave you exhausted. So here's your liberation, right here,
right now. You don't have to earn what Jesus already purchased.
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You don't have to work for what He freely gave you.
And I'm gonna leave that right there for whoever wants
to pick it up. Whoever wants to pick that up,
that's yours. You don't have to earn what Jesus already purchased.
You don't have to work for what he freely gave.
Let's bring in Ephesians chapter two, verse eight and nine.
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Ephesians Chapter two, verses eight and nine, he says this.
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Paul writes these words to the saint. To Ephesus, he says,
for by grace.
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You have been saved past tense through faith, and this
is not your doing.
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You had nothing to do with this.
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It is the gift of God, not a result of works,
So that no one may boast. Do you realize how
much people are out here striving to earn salvation? Do
you know how much people are striving out here to
speak in tongue? Do you know how much people are
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striving out here to be baptized in the name of
the Father Son and Holy Ghost and Casper, the Friendly Ghost.
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Stop we doing way too much.
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We doing what God has not even put on us
to do. There is nothing that God is asking of
you to do, for by grace you have been saved.
Think of all of these other entities that people try
to get salvation through. When the body says, you've been
saved by grace through faith. You didn't do it yourself.
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It's a gift. All you have to do is receive
the gift. All you have to do is enjoy the gift.
It's not a result of your works. The reason why
it's not a result of your works is because God
knows us, He knows our propensities. He knows we would
be out here trying to brag about what we did.
So he said, you know what, let me just take
that off the table. Here it is, it's in your account.
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It's done.
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Grace means you can't earn it.
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Faith means just receive it. Gift means it's free. Got it.
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Good question for you. Are you exhausted from trying to
perform for God? Or are you resting in what Christ
has already performed for you?
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Let that marinate in your spirit.
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Wall number three, this is the wall of unworthiness.
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And that's what Paul says. No condemnation.
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These two words are the detonators that destroy the prison
of guilt and shame. No condemnation, not less condemnation, not
reduced condemnation. He says, no condemnation. There's no ambiguity here.
The word translated no. And this is so amazing to me.
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And this is just the nuance of scripture that I
absolutely love because that word no, it is the strongest
negative in the Greek language. It means absolutely, not zero, none, never,
and condemnation means guilty, verdict with punishment.
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That's what condemnation means.
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So Paul is literally saying absolutely zero, guilty, verdict with
punishment for those in Christ Jesus, none, not one, never.
But you see this wall of unworthiness. It whispers constantly.
This wall is always speaking You're not worthy, you're not
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good enough, you're too far gone. You've messed up too
many times. You keep doing the same thing over and over.
There's no coming back from what you did. But here's
the revelation that I pray will set you free. You're
absolutely right, you're not worthy. I'm not worthy. None of
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us are worthy.
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And that's the whole point.
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That's the point that Paul has been building upon for
seven chapters.
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Here it is right here.
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The gospel is not that you're worthy. The gospel is
that Christ makes us worthy. That's the gospel. It's not
that we deserve it, No, it's that He died for
the undeserving. It's not that we're good enough, it is
that He is good enough. Remember Romans chapter five, verse eight.
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While we were sinners, Christ died for the ungodly. In
the court of law, condemnation is the final verdict and
is followed by the sentence. It's the gabbel coming down
with all his finality, and Paul is saying that for
those in Christ, Jesus, Paul is saying that verdict has
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been overturned, that sentence has been commuted, the charges have
been dropped, the case has been dismissed.
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I believe the story.
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Is in the Gospel of John chapter eight, and in
that chapter there is a woman taken in the act
of adultery. Somehow another these religious leaders were watching this woman,
they were spying on her. But nevertheless, the Bible says
she was called in the act. And they don't bring
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the man, but they bring her. And Jesus is having
a prayer meeting, and they throw the woman.
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At Jesus' feet and they tell Jesus the law of
Moses says, we are the stone this woman. But what
you got to say about that?
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And so Jesus doesn't open his mouth and say a word.
The Bible says, he just began to write in the dirt,
and one by one those men begin to walk away.
He says, let him without sin cast the first stone. Okay,
if y'all got her, she's guilty. But I tell you what,
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this is the prerequisite. If you have no sin in
your life, then you pick up a stone and you
start stoning her. So he goes back to riding in
the dirt, and the Bible says, one by one, her
accusers walked away, and then finally she's left standing there
with Jesus. Jesus asked the woman, where are your accusers?
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She said, I have none. He says, neither do I
accuse you. Neither do I condemn you. He says, go
and sin no more. Her case was dropped right there,
And that's what I need someone to grab today.
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The charges that you have been charging yourself.
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With due to the mistakes, due to the way things
have turned out for you, due to the way life
is right now in this season for you, Please stop
charging yourself, Please stop bringing these accusations against yourself. Because
Jesus is saying, I don't accuse you either. Imagine if
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he tells her I don't accuse you either. But she
says to all, Jesus, you got you got to stone me. Jesus,
that's what the law of Moses said. Yeah, that is
what the law of Moses said.
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But what he demonstrated to her in that moment.
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If you ever want to know what grace looks like,
go read John chapter eight about the story of Jesus
and the woman taken in the act of adultery, because
that's what grace is. Grace gives you what you don't deserve.
Grace gives you what you didn't earn, even though the
verdict says guilty. Let me bring in the scripture Romans,
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chapter five, verse nine, Paul writes these words. He says,
since therefore there's that word again. We have now been
justified by his blood. Much more shall we be saved
by him from the wrath of God. Justified is a
very important word. Justified actually comes before salvation. Justified means
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declared righteous. God looked at Christ's righteousness, and he credited
to your account, and he declared you righteous based on
his righteousness.
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So now you're not guilty. You have been acquitted.
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But here's what messes people up, and it's my prayer
that I can clear to suff for anyone who may
not know the difference. Many people confuse conviction with condemnation.
Conviction is the Holy Spirit showing you where you need
to grow. Remember what Jesus said over in John chapter sixteen.
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He said, I have to leave. He's telling he was
talking to his disciples in the upper room. He said,
I have to leave. He said, but I'm going to
send you back my Holy Spirit, the comforter, and he
said he will lead and guide you.
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Into all truth. He also told talked.
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About the Holy Spirit convicting and reproving as well. So
the Holy Spirit will show you where you need to grow,
what areas of your life you need to grow in,
what areas of your life you need to walk in maturity?
And it's very specific. And what conviction does is it
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leads you to repentance. The beauty about conviction is that
it is redemptive. Condemnation, on the other hand, condemnation is
the enemy beating you up about your past, beating you
up about your mistakes, holding it over your head. Condemnation
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is vague and it leads many people to despair. And
condemnation is very destructive. Oftentimes people get caught up in
their mind with condemnation just bouncing back and forth, and
they don't know how to escape that. So here's the
difference between the two, between conviction and condemnation. Conviction points
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you to Jesus. Condemnation pushes you away from Jesus. So
that's how you will know going forward. You make a mistake,
does that mistake lead you to Jesus? Or does that
mistake make you want to run away from Jesus? So
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Paul is saying here in Romeans, chapter eight, verse one,
there is therefore now no condemnation none. The Holy Spirit
will convict you to grow you, but God will never
condemn you to destroy you. You have the difference between
the two. And I'm talking to somebody right now who's
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been living under a cloud of condemnation. You wake up guilty,
you go to bed feeling ashamed. Let me tell you something,
and I hope that this will help you. If you're
in Christ, God is not mad at you. Please hear me.
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God delights in you. He's not keeping a record wrongs.
He threw that record into the sea of forgetfulness. Remember
what the psalmon said, as far as the east is
from the West. God remembers your sin no more. So
I need someone to just allow that to marinate in
your spirit, because I get it sometimes. And this is
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why the Bible says in Jeremih chapter seventeen, verse nine,
the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked.
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Who can know it? Because sometimes we make mistakes that
we look at.
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It like, I can't believe I did that. I can't
believe I said that. I can't believe that happened to me.
That's because the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. This
is the war of Paul was talking about in Romans
chapter seven, the good that I would do. I find
another law warring in my spirit. Imagine he used the
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word law that means an authority.
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So this thing is.
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Trying to bring you into bondage. But you have to
allow yourself to see the risen Christ. Paul. I'm sorry,
not Paul, but Peter. Peter said it's not God's will
that any of us should perish, but that we all
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would come unto repentance. That's God's delight, that's God's desire
for you. So if we fall, as the Bible says,
a just man falls seven times, but what does he do?
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He gets back up. So I got a question for you.
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Are you right now in this moment, are you living
under the weight of condemnation or are you walking in
the freedom of no condemnation. There are only two paths there,
and either you're on the first path or you're on
the second path. But if you're on that first path,
I need you get on the second path. Please do
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not live under the weight of condemnation. Walk in the
freedom of no condemnation. Walk into freedom of not guilty.
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Please do that.
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Wal number four, the wall of false identity. Here's the
last part of the verse. He says, for those who
are in Christ Jesus, this is the key that unlocks everything.
If Paul doesn't say this, then we're still guilty in
Christ Jesus. That phrase in Christ appears over eighty times
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in Paul's letters. This is a go to statement. This
is a go to phrase that Paul loves to use.
So when he says in Christ, just location, it'sification, that's
what he's talking about.
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It's union.
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You're not just near Christ, your Christ. I believe it's
found over any Esians chapter two, where Paul writes that
God has made us sit together in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus. That's already done. That's not something that we're
waiting for and to sweep by and by after a while.
See this wall of false identity. It keeps people trapped
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even when they know about grace, because they still define
themselves by their past, their mistakes, their struggles, their failures,
their labels, their trauma. And if this wall could talk,
it would say, that's just who you are. You're an addict,
you're a failure, your damage goods. Nobody wants you. That's
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your identity. That's what you'll always be. But Paul says,
your identity, it's not based on what you've done, but
it's based on what's been done to you. Your identity
based on who you in Christ Jesus. That's your identity.
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That's your identity, whether you like it or not. When
you place your faith in Jesus, you were united with him,
whether you like it or not. His death became your
death to sin, His resurrection became your resurrection to new life.
His righteousness became your righteousness.
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Get this. His standing with the Father became your standing
with the Father. And it's like this imagine a check
for one million dollars.
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That check is only valuable if it has the signature
of someone who actually has one million dollars in their account.
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Your life is like that check. It has no value
on its own.
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But when your life is in Christ, when your life
bears his name, when it's backed.
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By His account, suddenly everything changes. I believe.
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The Bible says, Alreadyphesians, chapter one, verse three, we have
been blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places, already
done in the account. But here's the thing. We don't
access the account. We never go and draw from your
account because we're so busy looking at ourselves in the
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mirror and putting labels on ourselves. You're not righteous because
you live right. You're not righteous because you go to church.
You're righteous because you're in the righteous one. The Bible says,
there's none righteous, no, not one. We have to be
in Christ in order to be righteous. We're not righteous
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on our own. We a mess on our own. You're
not forgiven because you stop sinning. No, you're forgiven because
you're in the one who paid for your sin. You're
not accepted because you're an acceptable person. You're accepted because
you're in the one who is fully accepted. Whenever you
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get a chance, you should just go and read Ephesians
chapter one.
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It will blow your.
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Mind all of the things that God has, that Jesus
has already done for you. And it's just verse after
verse after verse after verse after verse. And we never
take the time to read what God has already done
for us because we're so busy running like Hampster's trying
to get the next blessing. And Ephesians chapter one, verse six,
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Paul writes this, He says, to the praise of the
glory of his grace, wherein He has made us accepted
in the Beloved. He made us accepted in the Beloved.
Jesus is the beloved. You're not striving to become the
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Beloved's favored. You already are because you're in the Beloved.
That's your identity, that's your standing right now, that's your
unshakable position with God.
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Before we came on, we.
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Were just talking about how there's just so many things
that many Christians don't even realize it's theirs, it's already theirs,
and we spend so much time striving to make things happen.
And oftentimes as Christians, we're just not taught. We're taught
to come to church, We're taught to run around, we
taught to give, we talked to have a good time
and dress nights and all of that, but nobody is
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taking the time to sit down with you and show
you in the Word who you are and who you are.
And that's the whole purpose of what we're trying to
do right now, because I believe there is a remnant
of God's people who want the Word, not all this
foolishness that we see coming out of these churches on
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social media. So, now here's the kicker. Why did God
do all of this? If you look back at that
verse in Ephesians, chapter one, verse six, if you take
a real good look at that verse, the reason why
God did all of this is to show off his grace,
Your transformation, your redemption, your acceptance, its acceptance. It's all
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designed to display the incomparable grace of God to the
entire universe. He's going to touch on this again over
in chapter two of Ephesians. So here's what I need
you to do. Stop trying to earn what you've already
been given. Start praising God for the grace that has
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already made you accept it. Let's get one more verse
of confirmation. It's found over in Galatians, Hips two, verse twenty. Galatians,
Chapter two, verse twenty. Paul writes these words to the
saints in Galatia. Paul says, I been crucified with Christ
in the world. Is that possible? Paul, You're alive, your writingness,
How can this action be true?
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He says?
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It is no longer I who live, but Christ, who
lives in me, and the life I now live in
the flesh. I live by faith in the Son of God,
who loved me and gave himself for me.
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Crucified with Christ. That means family.
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You died with him, you were buried with him, you
were raised with him. Your identity is wrapped up in
his identity. You cannot separate the two. And here's the revelation.
And this is why there's no condemnation. It's not because
you're perfect. It's because you're in the perfect one. It's
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not because you're sinless. It's because you're in the sinless one.
It's not because you deserve it. It's because you're in
the one who earned it. The reason there's no condemnation
for those in Christ, says is because God doesn't look.
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At you apart from Christ.
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And if you could just get that right there, it'll
begin to change how you view yourself. God can't even
look at one of his sons and daughters and not
see Christ.
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He sees you and his son.
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When God looks at you, he sees Christ's righteousness covering you.
Nothing you've done is what He has already done. So
I'm talking to somebody right now finding themselves by the past.
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You say I'm a divorcee. Got it. No, You're in Christ.
You say I'm an at it? Got it? No, You're
in Christ. You say I'm a failure. Got it?
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No, You're in Christ. Your past doesn't define you. Christ
identifies you. Second Corinthians, Chapter five, verse twenty one. For
our sake. He made him, Jesus, to be sin, who
knew no sin. Why so that in him we might
become the righteousness of God.
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I can't make it any clearer than this family. I can't.
In Him.
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In Christ, we become the righteousness of God.
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That's who you are.
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You need to start speaking to your true identity. You're
not just a sinner. Saved by grace. You're a saint
who still struggles with sin. You're not trying to get
to heaven.
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You are a.
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Citizen of Heaven living temporarily on earth. You're not defined
by your worst moment. You're defined by His best moment
on the cross. Final question for you, are you defining
yourself by your past and your struggles, or are you
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embracing your identity in Christ Jesus. Hear these walls of condemnation.
They're serious, But we've just dismantled.
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Four of these walls.
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The wall of Yesterday's mistake demolished therefore, which connects our
past to Christ finished work. The wall of performance pressure
destroyed by the word now, which declares that our freedom
is immediate. Our freedom is now, Our freedom is here,
It's not something that we have to wait on. The
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wall of unworthiness obliterated by no condemnation, which means absolutely
zero guilty verdict. The wall of false identity demolished how
in Christ Jesus, because that's your true identity, that's our
true identity. There is therefore now no condemnation to those
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to them who are in Christ Jesus. So please hear me.
This is not just a doctrine. Romans Chapter eight, verse
one is your emancipation of proclamation. Romans Chapter eight, verse
one is your declaration of independence, your independence from guilt,
your independence from shame, your independence from condemnation. So, right now,
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wherever you are, wherever you're listening to this, I need
you to feel the weight of this truth, because some
of you have been living behind these walls of condemnation
for years, decades, your whole life. You've been imprisoned by guilt.
You've been imprisoned by your past, by past mistakes. You've
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been shackled by shame. You've been tormented by your past.
But today, in this moment, God is declaring over your life,
no condemnation.
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That's it, no condemnation.
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Not because you earned it, No, not because you deserve it, No,
but because Jesus paid for it, purchased it, provided it
through his death on the cross and his resurrection from
the grave. So you don't have to live in that
prison anymore. You don't have to go and have somebody
slap oil all over your head and all over your
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body and pray for you. No, the door is wide open,
the chains are broken, the walls are down, the glasshouse
is shattered, no accusations whatsoever. And it hurts me and
it breaks my heart when I see saints who've been
punishing themselves for sin that God has already forgiven you.
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For you've been condemning yourself when God already justified you.
So today, right here, in this moment, these walls of
condemnation are down. Come out wherever you are, not next week,
not when you feel better, today, now right now, at
this very moment. So let me give you these three
call to actions. Call to action number one, demolish the
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walls in your mind today every single time that condemnation
tries to build a new wall in your mind. What
you are going to do is you're going to speak
Romans chapter eight, verse one out loud. That means you're
going to have to learn Romans chapter eight, verse one
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to speak it out loud. Remember these walls of temptations,
Jesus just simply stood on the work. Now here's your
chance to stand on the word of God and speak
it to your own mind. Say it when you wake
up in the morning, Say it when the enemy attacks,
Say it when the tears are rolling down your eyes.
Say it when shame tries to creep in. There is
therefore now no condemnation, not guilty satan for those who
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are in Christ Jesus. Make this verse your battle cry.
Write it on your mirror. Get your momentum started now
for twenty twenty six. Don't wait for twenty twenty six.
Let's start doing the work now. Write this verse on
your mirror. Set it as your phone background. Let it
become the soundtrack of your soul. Speak God's word.
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Over your own life.
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Be so busy waiting for somebody else. Man, Lay hands
on your head and pray for yourself. Pray for your mind,
Pray for your thinking. Pray that your thoughts will be
in alignment with the word of God's.
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You take action. Let's stop all this waiting on somebody
else to do it. You do it.
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Call it action number two. I need you to redefine
your identity. Make a list right now, when you get
a chance, make a list. On one side, I want
you to write down every negative label label that you
have been carrying. And then on the other side of
the paper, I want you to write who God says
you are in Christ Jesus. Just from this lesson, destroy
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that first list so you can write these on two
separate pieces of paper.
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Destroy that first.
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List, rip it up, delete it, and then I want
you to start speaking your true identity every single day.
You are not your past, you are not your mistakes.
You are in Christ Jesus. You have to speak that.
You have to put that into the atmosphere. Release it,
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and these walls will come down in your life. Call
to action number three. I want you to share your freedom.
Share your freedom. If this teaching freed you, if this
teaching has knocked down at least one wall in your life,
I need you to share it. God, I pray for
every person hearing this word right now, demolish the walls
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in their mind, destroy the strongholds of guilt in the
prison of condemnation. Father, I pray that you will shatter
the glass house of their past. Help them God, to
stop agreeing with the enemy and start agreeing with your word.
Let them feel your love right now.
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Father.
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Let them know that they're forgiven and accepted and free.
We thank you Lord that because of Jesus, we are forgiven,
we are justified, and we are free in Jesus Mighty name.
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Amen, I'm so glad you spent this time with us
Pastor Tim has deposited something powerful into your spirit today
and I want you to guard it. Next week we're
back with these walls of religion, another prison the enemy
has built that's keeping people trapped. Bring your friends, bring
your family, subscribe, follow brothers in the Word on all platforms.
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Thank you for allowing us to serve you, to challenge you,
and to point you back to Jesus. Remember, get into
the Word of God, and the Word of God will
get into you.
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