You are equipped with everything you need inside you to fulfill your purpose, but you must choose to stay in His presence rather than seeking fulfillment elsewhere. When the enemy whispers lies about your potential, stand firm on God's word and allow His glory to be revealed through your life. Take a moment today to quiet your distractions and ask the Holy Spirit how He wants you to respond to His call.
What is up, "Real Church"? Thanks for tuning in to the Real Church podcast. I am excited about today. My name is David John Phillips. I have the honor of being the pastor here.
Today, we're going to do the finale of the Glory of Living series, and I pray it encourages you. God bless. The "best is yet to come". Amen? Praise the Lord.
Alright. So, with those announcements Uh-oh. There we go. I have a whiteboard today. I'm a wax teacher on you.
That's what John, our worship and production leader thinks I'm a teacher. I don't know. But, have you guys ever seen this? Do you guys know what that is? In mathematics, it's a square root, but this ain't mathematics.
I'm just gonna leave that there. We're gonna get back to it towards the end. Fair enough? We're in a series titled titled The Glory of Living. This is the grand finale of the series.
I'm kinda sad because the glory of living has been foundational and monumental for me. I believe it's foundational and monumental for our church. This would be part 6, but it is the finale. And, I in that, we're going to kind of do a summary of of things that we've learned. Hopefully, we'll learn some new things as well.
But then, hopefully, we'll wrap it up in a practical example of how this series works out in your life, so that as you move forward, you understand the process. Make sense? So, with that being said, and if any of these things that you hear, you don't remember, you want to go back into, you can always check them out online on our podcast, realchurch.us, our YouTube channel. Just check them out online. If you search it, you'll probably find it.
At least, I hope you do. And, if you're like, man, he said some of this stuff every Sunday for the last 5 Sundays. Why would you say that again? I'll tell you why. Me and Paul, we're on the same page.
*Philippians-3:1* says, further my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write to you the same thing again, and it's a "safeguard to you". So man, if you hear something that you've heard over and over in the past few weeks, praise the Lord. Rejoice, because it's a safeguard to you. By repetition, you're going to remember.
And, the Bible says in Romans-12:2 that you're transformed, your life is transformed by the renewing of your Mind. So, we need to not just hear it once and say, wow, that's a decent message. I feel alright, and walk out. But, we need to hear it and let it impact our life so that it changes our life and transforms our life because we meditate on it, we think about it, and put it into practice. Yeah?
Otherwise, we're just checking a box going to church on Sunday, and that's that's not what we're about. Real people living a real life for real Jesus having a real good time. That's who we are. Amen? Okay.
So, glory then. Glory is the nature of a thing on display for all to see. Ring a bell for some of you? So then, if that's what glory is, then the glory of God is the nature of God on display for all to see. Or, more succinctly, it's who God is and what He does on display for all to see.
Amen? That being said, everything exists to manifest its glory. And, by manifesting its glory, by walking out, by living out its purposes that God placed in it at birth, everything exists to do that, By doing that, it is giving glory to its creator, much like a painting gives glory to the artist that paints it because you can see the characteristics and the nature of the artist that did the artwork. Amen? And, if you guys remember this picture, you guys remember that?
No. Yeah, that's not glorious, is it? Not glorious at all. As a matter of fact, that's When I first showed it a few weeks ago, people said, that's cute. And I said, you're liars.
Maybe if you understand its purpose when you look at it, and you understand what it's grown supposed to grow up into, that's gonna grow up into a a beautiful don't go there yet, but it's supposed to grow up into a beautiful toucan. And, it needs 3 things in order to grow into that. It needs the proper or the right environment. It needs nourishment, and it needs time for growth. Without the proper environment, let's say it's a freezing environment, this thing will die, even if it has the right nourishment.
Yeah. With the right environment, but no nourishment, it's gonna die too. And, with the right environment, and the right nourishment, but you just kick it out the nest, you don't give it time for growth, it's probably going to get eaten. Right? But, if it's the right environment, nourishment, and time for growth, then this happens.
Well, not that. Let me paint the picture with my words. It's a glorious toucan flying in the air. It's beautiful, it's amazing, And when you see it, you go, wow. Like, think about at the zoo.
Except a toucan, part of the glory of a toucan is to fly. So, 1 of the environment that it needs in order to live out its purpose in completeness, the proper environment, is open air. Without open air, you put it in a cage, you're restricting its purpose, you're restricting its glory. Well, guess what? You are not a toucan.
You were created in the image of God. Created in his likeness. *Ephesians-4:24* through 26 says that, you're created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. What that means is, you're supposed to, by your life, put on display who God is and what he does, so that when people see your life, they say, man, and it draws them into relationship with the creator. *Colossians-1:27*, "Christ in you", the hope of glory.
So, God's hope of being glorified throughout the earth is putting Christ in you, and that being worked out of you for the world to see. That's pretty cool. That's amazing. That is your purpose. Now, the right environment for that to happen for mankind is God's presence.
The right environment for a bird is open air. For a fish is water. For you to live out your purpose, the right environment is his presence. It's in his presence you find your purpose. And outside of his presence, you will always be searching and making other things God.
Whether it's money, your husband, your relationship, sex, good times, alcohol, outside of his presence, other things will become your purpose and your life will be wasted. The richest place in the world is not a bank account. It's not Washington DC. The wealthiest place in the world, as we said before, is a graveyard because that's where a lot of purposes have died. Unfulfilled dreams, unfulfilled hopes, unwritten books, unwritten songs, unstarted businesses that God had purposed, created before the foundation of the world, and put those purposes in people.
That toucan, it had everything that it needed in its DNA in order to grow into everything.
Oh, there it is. It's gorgeous. Toucan.
Had everything it needed in its DNA in order to grow up and do that. Everything. You, God has put everything in you that you need in order to grow up to fulfill your purpose. You need the right environment, his presence. And in his presence, you find nourishment.
What is your nourishment? Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. Understanding his word, but understanding his word in line with his presence. The Pharisees knew the word of God, but they crucified Jesus. There's a lot of religious people that know the word of God, but they crucify Christians and don't walk out their life because they have no idea who he is.
They know a lot about him and they can quote scripture and scripture and scripture, but they don't walk with him day in and day out. And because of that, man, they're really preventing the gospel from moving forward. Don't be a Pharisee. So our purpose is found in his presence, and you're created to live that out. 1 of the major ways that God brings our purpose out, we've learned, is through work.
You can't live out your purpose and be lazy. Just can't do it. It's impossible. And what does that look like? I mean, I'm not talking about like if you've worked your whole life at a job and retired, that's great, but you still have work to do.
It may not be that in order to provide you for your family, which is important, by the way. The the Bible says the person who neglects to provide for their family is worse than an unbeliever. Providing is important, if that's the role God has given you. But, once you've once you've retired and you're done, you take care of that, you still have work to do. If you're still alive, you still have purpose.
And and if you've neglected that purpose, guess what? If you're still alive, that purpose is still possible, and it's possible in his presence. And He wants to redeem. He's a God of redemption. He wants to redeem the time.
He wants to restore you and help you to fulfill everything. It's not over. It's not too late. Because he loves you. And the way that that happens, I said through work, so the way that happens is you seek him.
And as you seek him, you his his presence fills the room. Whether you feel it or not, He's there. He comes to you as you seek Him. The Bible says seek and you will find. But then He speaks to you.
He draws you into relationship with Him. So then you hear Him, you trust Him, you believe Him, and then you obey Him. Working out his purpose happens through obedience. And he'll never lead you to do anything against his will. And you know what his will is for you?
For you to completely and totally fulfill your purpose. Because in you fulfilling your purpose, he's gonna be getting glory. So he's gonna lead you and tell you to do things. It might seem like you're walking this way, you're like, but I I have these passions and these desires. Be obedient because there is process to the purpose, and you can trust him.
He's not just going to lead you in circles. He's going to lead you in order to develop in you the character necessary to carry the call that he put on you. And if you walk into your purpose before you're ready, it ain't gonna be good. You'll be broken by it. Talked with Heidi earlier a few few days ago, we're talking about the orange from last last week, I think it was.
There's pressure in the purpose. That pressure is meant to develop you. Right? Count it all joy when you go through trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance, and perseverance let perseverance have its finished work so you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. Persevering through the child, not as trying to escape it, but allowing the squeezing and the pressing.
Because in the squeezing and the pressing, his glory is coming out. When your life is pressed, who you really are comes out. And, when I squeeze an orange, if tomato juice comes out, it's weird because you see an orange. If I squeeze somebody that says they're a Christian and anything but Christ comes out, it's weird. And, your heavenly father is a good father.
He wants to lead you in the process to develop in you the character necessary, so that every time you're squeezed, Christ comes out and impacts and influences the world around you. Amen? Amen. So we rejoice in that process, and that process means there's pressing. I'm leaning over a lot.
It's because I'm so tall. Our heavenly father is devoted to that process. A lump of coal goes through a process of pressure. High pressure, high temperature in order to become a diamond. God created that process.
We can see his principles and his characteristics through nature. That process of taking that lump of earth and putting pressure on it will not destroy it, it will actually refine it and make it more valuable. In the same way with you, God's pressure on your life will not destroy you. No. Sit with him in the midst of it and rejoice because you know that it's developing you.
Suffering produces perseverance which produces proven character, which produces hope that does not disappoint. Romans-5:3 through 5. Amen? Check this out. For gold to become purely what it what it is, with no foreign object in it, it has to be refined by fire.
It has to be refined. And in the refining process, impurities are ripped out of the gold. Do you know the last impurity to be ripped out of the gold is silver? The last impurity for gold to be exactly and only what it was created to be is to take silver out of it. There's a principle there.
In your process of being refined by God's fire. Sometimes, you have to say no to good things, even things that you like or things that you want because it's not who God created you to be. It's who God created someone else to be. And so, you might even have to say no to ministries, or no to this, or no to that, or no to this good opportunity because the father said that's not who I created you to be. That's not your purpose.
Are you willing to say no to the to the good things in order to do the right thing? It's part of the process. Follow him. Are you willing to say no to what you wanna do because it's not who God said you are? To submit your desires and your feelings to him.
Because if he's Lord, he's Lord. Right? Do you realize you don't follow Jesus for you? The Bible says, if you wanna be my disciple, you must first deny self. That's what he said.
Jesus said, if you wanna be my disciple, the first thing he said, deny yourself, pick up your cross and follow me. A lot of times we as Christians come just, hey, bless me, bless me, bless me. I'm you know, I'll go to Sunday to get a feel good, then I'll leave and go home, and that's not Christianity, bro. You must first deny yourself. It's saying, I realize that living for myself ain't it.
I'm not being fulfilled. It's actually worse. I wanna I lay my lay down myself in order to follow you because God, I'm only going to be fulfilled in you. I'm gonna follow you fully and completely even if it doesn't feel good. Lord, I trust you.
You are good. I submit my life to your process. Amen? Alright. Let's go to John-17 for just a second, and we'll get to that.
*John-17 verse 1, it says, after Jesus said this, he looked towards heaven* and prayed. After Jesus said what? Let's look above. John-16:33, the very the verse right before it. He says, I have told you these things, so that in me you may have *peace*.
In this world, you will have trouble, but take heart, I have come overcome the world. In the world, you are going to have trouble. Period. Are you gonna recognize in the midst of the trouble that Christ loves you, that he cares for you, that you're in him, if you've been born again? Are you going to recognize that?
Because if you realize that you're in him, then he said, in me you will have peace. You can have his peace in the midst of the trouble that's all around. Man, that's the only way to live. That's the way I live, man. If you're looking for peace, Shift your focus.
1, come to know Jesus. Be born again. Allow your life to be submitted to his will. Invite him into your into your life. Number 2, live that way.
Shift your focus in the midst of whatever's going on, whatever's given you a lack of peace, and realize that God is with you. You are in him by faith because of what he has spoken. And he is in you, and he's all around you, and that's enough to not be anxious about anything. Amen? Alright.
After Jesus said this, 17 1, he looked towards heaven and prayed, Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son that your Son may glorify you. It's all about glory, guys. Everything up to this point was a setup. Everything up to this point was part of the process, setting the stage for Jesus to step on the stage in the biggest way, and to glorify the father by being glorified.
His death and resurrection. Everything up to this point was that, was for that. Got a little dancing music going on. Why? *John-17:2, for you granted him authority over all people that he may give *eternal life** to all those you have given him.
The purpose of Jesus being glorified is to give you eternal life. And, in giving you eternal life, the Father will be glorified. Okay? Does that mean that you walk an aisle, say a prayer, and then get your "get out of jail free", your get out of hell free card. Check the box.
Be like, I'm good. You know? No, you ain't. I I did I did that, and I can just go and do what I want. That's not Christianity.
That's actually not and then and then, you know, good. Go go do what I want. And then 1 day when I die, I'll get to sit on a cloud, "play a harp", and sing Kumbaya for eternity. No. That's not eternal life.
Actually, Jesus defines eternal life in the very next verse. His purpose was to give you eternal life. Why? Verse 3, now this is eternal life that they know you, The 1 and only true God in Jesus Christ whom you have sent. That they that you guys know him.
Eternal life is knowing God, and you can enter into eternal life now. A relationship, not religion, not just walking an aisle, playing religion, checking a box, everybody else thinks you're good. No, this is a relationship where you walk with him day in and day out in his presence, and he impacts every aspect, every day of your life, and shifts the atmosphere of your heart, the atmosphere of your mind, the way that you speak. Everything changes and other people say, wow, what's different about you? And they take note that you've spent time with Jesus.
Amen. That's Christianity. I'll just add a little tidbit there. First John. Which tidbit?
*1 John-4:7*, dear friends, let us love 1 another for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God because "God is love". There's your test. Love love is not this, you know a part of love is a ooey gooey feeling.
That's great. But love's also strong, fierce. Love's willing to tell the truth even when you risk losing the relationship because you don't know if they'll be offended or not. Love's willing to discipline your kids. Love's willing to do the tough things.
That's love. Love is strong and fierce and ooey gooey and all of the above. And guess what? God is love. So the only way that you can love like God is to know him.
And to know him is to love him. And to love him is to obey his commands. Meaning, you can't know him without your life being transformed. By by receiving him and knowing him, things will begin to change. And if not, maybe go back to the beginning.
Because he loves you and he cares for you. Maybe you don't really believe that he loves you, so you never really approached him in the first place. This is a *relationship* that impacts every aspect of our lives. Amen? Amen.
I'm not trying to scare you into thinking that you're not saved. I'm trying to encourage you forward into a deeper relationship with him. Amen? About walking with him day in and day out and realizing that he loves you. You can only receive that by faith.
Alright. Back to *John-17* verse 4. Watch this. I have brought you glory. This is Jesus, the son, praying to the father.
I have brought you glory on earth by singing songs, going to church on Sunday, and giving, tithing, doing my thing, checking my boxes. That's how I brought you glory on earth. Is that what it says? Oh, no. It doesn't say that, does it?
Dang. It says, brought you glory on earth by finishing. Everybody say finishing. Finishing. I brought you glory on earth by **finishing the work** that you gave me to do.
God is relentless about the process of you fulfilling your purpose. And it takes you walking by faith to overcome the resistance necessary to fill your purpose. And that only happens in his presence. He wants you to finish. He doesn't want you to quit.
And you can finish even if you only got 10 days left to live. Get in his presence. He will restore and redeem, and you'll be able to accomplish his purpose for you in the next 10 days. Because he's amazing. It's not too late.
Okay. Let's go to verse 10. *John-17:10. All I have is yours, and all you have is mine, and glory has come to me through them. He's praying about the disciples* that walked with him on the earth at the time.
He says, listen to that, *glory* has come to me, Jesus, through them. The disciples did what Jesus told them to do. They failed. They messed up time and time again, but yet they continued moving forward, and in doing that, them fulfilling their purpose brought Jesus glory. That's cool.
And then Jesus prayed in John-17 chapter 20 verse 22. He's praying for all those who will believe. That means he's praying for you. At least, I hope he's praying for you if you believe or you will believe. Verse 22, he says, I have given them the glory.
He's given us the glory that the father gave him. Why? That they may be 1 as we are 1, I in them and you in me, so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. He gave you his glory.
Remember, Christ in you, the hope of glory. He put himself inside of you, so that through you, he may be glorified by you accomplishing your purpose. And as you accomplish the purpose he gave to you, and I accomplish the purpose he gave to me, we'll both be growing in maturity, which means we'll be unifying based on Jesus. And in that unity, the world will come to know him. That's cool.
I know it's a little it's starting to get a little warm in here. You guys awake? Good to go? Okay. Alright.
Well, hopefully, we'll bring this whole series together the best I can in this. And then, we'll call it a wrap. We'll call it a gun. This is a story on a page, trademarked by 1 of my professors back in school. Well, actually, not this.
A whole another thing that she did, but this is the basis of what writers are taught to use in order to write bestseller stories. It's the basis of what blockbuster hit movie directors are taught, or the the writers are are taught to use in order to write blockbuster hits. Because stories, story follows a pattern. It just does. Story follows a pattern.
And that pattern is this. You have a normal. Right? And you have a protagonist. My wife's like, check your spelling.
Check your spelling. Alright. You have a protagonist that is the main *character* or the hero of the story. And then you have an antagonist. Right?
You know what? Let's wait on the antagonist. So, the protagonist or the main character, the hero of the story, any good story follows this. We're just wired to to see this this way and to be captured by the story. He's living some kind of a normal life, and then all of a sudden there is a crisis that happens.
Something crazy goes down, and you hit this rock bottom, this, hey, something needs to shift. Then the rest and this usually happens in the first part of the movie. Then the rest of the story, or the book, the rest of the story is the main *character* trying to learn and overcome what happened in the crisis in order to be built back up to a purpose, or goal, or end. And, this "new normal", I've grown to hate those words, but this new normal is greater than where they started because they learned and grow, and they learned and they grew through the process of resistance and failure and and issue. You guys follow me so far?
Story. Now, I didn't explain the antagonist. So, on this journey, the protagonist is also, any good story, is given certain gifts or talents or tools or weapons. Those gifts, talents, tools, and weapons equip and help the main character, the protagonist, the hero, to accomplish his purpose and win the prize, or or be glorious at the end of the show. Okay?
But, there's also an antagonist. The antagonist is the enemy. It's the person that is resisting the protagonist. It doesn't necessarily have to be a person. It can be an idea.
It can be a thought. It can be someone's, you know, own inner demons, or it can be a person. But it's the person that's resisting. And at every point, they are resisting the gifts, talents, and abilities that the protagonist is being equipped with. And, they're usually resisting in the exact opposite way of the gift, talent, and ability in order to prevent the protagonist from being equipped so that they never accomplish their purpose.
Opposition. Waiting for the opportune time. You guys see it? Pretty cool. Guess what?
History? His story? His story? Story. He's the writer of story.
And the Bible is the story of mankind falling and being redeemed redeemed through Jesus to a greater normal. Before, they were walking with God in his presence, and that's awesome. Sinned, the fall happened, that Jesus came to restore mankind, and now on this journey of understanding who God is and who we are in him. But not only that, we don't just walk with God now, God is in us and exposing himself through us, and it's awesome. And so, we're on this journey of to this, to where we live with him for eternity, where 1 day there's no pain or you know, no issues.
You you you guys see the story in all of scripture. The Bible actually follows this to a tee. Pretty cool, But in the narrative that God wrote about mankind and his redemption. He's the hero. He's the he's the the storyteller.
He's the hero, and it's awesome. In that, each 1 of you has a story that's a part of his story. Each 1 of you in this play a role and your story looks very similar to that. Make sense? So, in this, you're going and you come to know Jesus, and as you're moving forward, God wants to give you different gifts, talents, and abilities.
He wants to equip you. He wants to give you revelation knowledge of who he is, and who you are in him. And at that point of revelation, as soon as he gives you that, he says, hey, guess what? I love you. Guess what the enemy does?
No, he don't. No, he don't. The enemy tries to give you **core lies** because he wants you to believe a lie. The only the only thing Satan has now, because he's been defeated by Jesus, the only thing that he has is lies and deception. And he wants you to believe lies and deception in order to prevent you from walking out your purpose.
And when you believe a lie and deception, guess what happens? You start walking in circles. It wasn't God's plan for you to walk in circles and be stuck because you believed the lie. God doesn't love me, and now I'm insecure about this, and now I I can't I can't live out any of my purpose, and I'm I'm just stuck in this circle of God doesn't love me, He doesn't care for me, so He doesn't love me, so nobody loves me. So now, I'm looking for love in all the wrong places.
I'm looking for it in this relationship, and this guy, and this woman. It doesn't feel right, it doesn't seem right. So, maybe I'll try this guy, or this woman, or this drugs, or this things, and that, whatever it is. And, it's all rooted back to the lie that God isn't real, and he doesn't love me, or whatever it is. So, I'm in a "circle of looking" for love.
And until you realize that God loves you and he cares for you, you'll never get back here. The the Israelites did circles in the wilderness. The only way to grow is to overcome resistance. We said that. We learned that last week.
So, God is never going to allow you to just skip over this because he wants you to grow to maturity. So, as you're here, he's gonna reach out to you through people, through prayers, through to reminding you things over and over until you're ready to face this again. And then, he's gonna say again, I love you. And then, you're going to have to deal with the fact, do you believe it or not? You receive it and believe it as a truth.
Now, you're equipped. My father loves me. I can move on to the next thing. And, I'm growing to maturity in overcoming resistance. It's not just those things.
My wife grew up knowing from a kid that she was going be pregnant. Not pregnant, knowing from a kid that she was going be a mother. She knew that part of her design was to be a mother. It was just deep down. She had planned her kids' names, her 2 first 2 girls' names from the time she was how old?
14. First 2 girls' names, she she knew what they wanted to be, planned on it. We get married, she ends up going to the doctor and finds out her uterus is split in 2. She can't be pregnant. Her design, she knew from God, part of her purpose was to be a mother.
Guess what? You have many purposes by the way. But the core lie that looked in the form of what a doctor told her on a ultrasound on an ultrasound, The core lie that looked real. You can't live out your purpose. Now, has the option.
She can believe the core lie and walk in circles of God doesn't love me, walk in circles of I'll never have babies, so I'll never be able to live out what God told me, or she can live by faith based on what God told her. You know what she did? Man, she's a mighty woman of God. She went to a prayer warrior. She went to a little old lady who's a mighty spiritual giant.
And she said, miss Barbara, they told me I can't have children, but I know I can. I know what guys, I need you to pray for me. And miss Barbara and Courtney stood on God's word. She went back to the doctor and doctor said, man, we must have messed up. Your uterus is fine.
Now, have 3 kids and she's 4 and a half weeks pregnant. I mean, and a half weeks from being from having the baby? Much more than 4 and half weeks pregnant. And beautiful. Do you guys see the process?
Over and over and over, God wants to equip you to walk out all of your purpose. And over and over and over, the enemy is going to try to get you to believe a core lie. You believe it long enough, it becomes a stronghold that you gotta be delivered from. Those lies gives the enemy right to work in your life and to wreak havoc. You bring those lies to the foot of the cross, submit them to truth, and the truth shall set you free.
If you remain in it, that's what it says right before there. Those who remain in the truth know the truth, and the truth sets them free. So, there's the process. Here's the pressure. But, God works out even what the enemy means for bad, for your good.
And then, the enemy might even be yourself, but you gotta deny yourself on the road to your process, or to your purpose, in order to follow what he says, because he loves you and he cares for you. And, in you doing that, you're going to mature. And maturity is you walking out your full purpose. A seed walking out its full purpose must be buried in the ground and give way to itself for the tree to come forth. And a seed is not fully mature until the tree is fully grown and producing fruit.
You are in process. Stay in process. Keep moving forward. Let's be in process together. And as we are, God's glory will be revealed in your life and corporately.
It'll be revealed through our lives together to impact this city and the world. Amen? Amen. I want to invite you to stand for just the end of this. I'm gonna get Daniel to come up in just a second.
I'm just going we're just going we're going to dismiss here in a second just for you to go "chew on some stuff". Just just chew on it. Think about it. But I don't want to dismiss you without you doing this. And after we do this, Daniel's going come up.
He's got some important information for us. I want you guys to close your eyes. I I get you to close your eyes to drown out distractions. That's it. Just to to realize that 2 or more are gathered in his name, so his presence is here.
And his presence is the requirement for you to "walk out your purpose". So he wants to speak to you, to lead you in that. And I want you to ask, heavenly Father Go ahead. Say that out loud. Heavenly Father.
How do you want me to respond today? And, just to train you a little bit, Holy Spirit, the Bible says that we have the mind of Christ. Holy Spirit speaks to us. A lot of times, you'll know with a deep seated peace if it was God speaking to you, but then the second thought will be the antagonist trying to come against, hey, that wasn't really God. Did God really say that?
Oh, no. You can't do that. No. That's not who you are. Now, stop that.
No. No. You don't really believe this junk, do you? Know what I'm talking about? So ask again and say, heavenly father.
How do you want me to respond? If it's in line with the principles of who he is and his word, *obey* and live it out. God loves you, and he wants you to walk in his glory. Thank you for tuning in today to the Real Church podcast. I pray that you walk away from today encouraged with a deeper understanding of how much God loves you.
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