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Speaker 1: Do the new You.
Speaker 2: Get a clear picture of what God has created you
Speaker 2: to be by spending time in his presence, communing with him,
Speaker 2: putting his word in your heart, getting the imprint of
Speaker 2: his image clearly in your mind, worshiping him, seeing Him
Speaker 2: for who he is, seeing Jesus for how he treated people,
Speaker 2: wanting to become more like that, being open to becoming
Speaker 2: more like that, praying for the Holy Spirit to make
Speaker 2: you more like.
Speaker 1: That, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Speaker 2: So we've been saying all you you're in this ministry,
Speaker 2: the true you is the new you, and the new
Speaker 2: you the one that you are becoming as you step
Speaker 2: toward God's picture of you. That you is the true you,
Speaker 2: but you have to choose it. The imagery of Ephesians
Speaker 2: four is like putting on clothes.
Speaker 1: Right. I chose my clothes today I did.
Speaker 2: I chose these clothes because they were appropriate for the
Speaker 2: activity that I just did. Honestly, I feel a little
Speaker 2: bit underdressed for making the video teaching, but this is
Speaker 2: what I wore to work out, and it's what I
Speaker 2: were to make the video. I chose it for the workout.
Speaker 2: I chose what I would wear today, just like I
Speaker 2: chose what I would drink. And I don't get to
Speaker 2: choose the attitude that the people are going to have
Speaker 2: who interact with me today, or what their priority is
Speaker 2: going to be. But I get to choose what attitude
Speaker 2: I wear, and I can choose to reset it if
Speaker 2: I got it wrong up to this point today or
Speaker 2: this week, or.
Speaker 1: This month, or this year or my whole life.
Speaker 2: I get to choose to put on the new creation,
Speaker 2: because this is what I got to make sure you understand.
Speaker 2: I was created to be more like God, not to
Speaker 2: be God. I don't believe that some people believe that
Speaker 2: we are God. I don't believe that we are God.
Speaker 2: I do believe that we are given the ability to
Speaker 2: choose to be more like Him and that He'll help
Speaker 2: us to do it as we choose it. Now to
Speaker 2: understand Ephesians four, I think we should read Ephesians one,
Speaker 2: verse four. Can we do that Ephesians verse four is
Speaker 2: what gives weight to Ephesians four when he says you
Speaker 2: were created.
Speaker 1: When he says the new you.
Speaker 2: Was created, You're like, wait, then, if it was created
Speaker 2: in past tense, how is it new. No, it's new
Speaker 2: to you. It's not new to God. He's familiar with
Speaker 2: that you. He sees that you. He knows that you.
Speaker 2: It's the true you. It's the one that's trying to speak,
Speaker 2: but there's too much noise. It's the one that's trying
Speaker 2: to come forth, but there's too much blockage of shame.
Speaker 2: It's the one that is buried beneath that habits.
Speaker 1: God sees that you. He knows that you. He made
Speaker 1: that you, He knit that you together.
Speaker 2: Because in Ephesians one, verse four, it says He chose
Speaker 2: us in him, that's Christ, before the creation of the world,
Speaker 2: to be holy and blameless in his sight. Did you
Speaker 2: see that word He chose, go back, He chose. That's
Speaker 2: how it started. God chose you.
Speaker 1: That's right. Your unique atomic construction.
Speaker 2: Was the handiwork of the author of time and space
Speaker 2: and galaxies. That God, who architected the caterpillar to become
Speaker 2: a butterfly, has created you for good works, has created
Speaker 2: you for a special purpose, has predestined you by his love,
Speaker 2: has adopted you as a son or a daughter, brought
Speaker 2: you into his family. Isn't that good news? That God
Speaker 2: chooses you? So it means five foot six was supposed
Speaker 2: to be five foot six.
Speaker 1: It means that.
Speaker 2: Beneath whatever you don't like about yourself physically radiates a
Speaker 2: spirit that is uncontaminated by comparison to others.
Speaker 1: God chose you. I wish I had been born in
Speaker 1: the eighteen hundreds. That would have been cool. You weren't.
Speaker 2: Weren't supposed to be. You're supposed to be born now.
Speaker 2: I wish I could have lived at a simpler time.
Speaker 2: I wish I could have walked the earth with Jesus.
Speaker 1: You can't. You're walking now.
Speaker 2: Another scripture said that He appointed the times and places
Speaker 2: where men should live, And so he has called you
Speaker 2: to this time. He has called you to your family,
Speaker 2: He has called you to your disposition. He has called
Speaker 2: you to make the best of your personality. That's all
Speaker 2: part of His purpose. And we're exploring right now in
Speaker 2: our teaching in the church, as well as a book
Speaker 2: that I'm putting together as we speak.
Speaker 1: What it means to do the new you.
Speaker 2: But I think it has to start with the fact
Speaker 2: that you know that you're chosen. Just like Peter was
Speaker 2: chosen even though he would go on to curse and
Speaker 2: deny that he knew Christ. You were chosen even though
Speaker 2: you cuss and do some other bad stuff. And this
Speaker 2: is not permission to continue with bad habits, but it
Speaker 2: gives you power to overcome them by knowing that God
Speaker 2: knew them and that he chooses you anyway. Get this,
Speaker 2: deep down, God chose you. God has options. God can
Speaker 2: call anybody he wants. God can use anybody that he wants.
Speaker 2: God chose you, like I chose this deer park water
Speaker 2: and you're like, yeah, but you said you don't like
Speaker 2: the waters.
Speaker 1: I mean, God doesn't like me. The analogy breaks down.
Speaker 1: Stay with me.
Speaker 2: All I'm saying about it is God could have gone
Speaker 2: and gotten any pot that he wanted, any vessel that
Speaker 2: he wanted, And the Bible says, man, I feel annoyed
Speaker 2: in teaching this that you are a chosen vessel. Yeah
Speaker 2: you are. You're a chosen vessel. If you feel stubby,
Speaker 2: you're a chosen vessel. Even if you feel like you
Speaker 2: got a broken handle. Leonard Cohen, the great poet, said,
Speaker 2: there's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
Speaker 2: Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.
Speaker 2: There's a crack in everything. That's where the light gets in.
Speaker 2: That's where God's grace, as Paul says, elsewhere the glory
Speaker 2: of God shines through.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where God does. His best word is.
Speaker 2: The healing oil that comes from even a broken vessel.
Speaker 1: And then He reforms you and he reshapes you.
Speaker 2: And you're so obsessed with the container man, you're thinking
Speaker 2: about things that God's He's right through. I'm all for
Speaker 2: improving your physical appearance. I'm all for improving your financial status.
Speaker 2: I'm all for improving your skill set. But beneath all
Speaker 2: of that, to make that grow in a healthy way
Speaker 2: so it doesn't get out of balance.
Speaker 1: You got to know God chose you.
Speaker 2: God chose you, He knows you, he loves you, he's
Speaker 2: with you, he's for.
Speaker 1: You, he's not against you.
Speaker 2: I'm speaking to somebody today who needs to know you're chosen. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I you're chosen. Yeah but I you're chosen. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but they you're chosen. I don't care about that. I
Speaker 2: care about him. You're chosen. Yeah, but it I don't
Speaker 2: care about it. You're chosen. God's sovereignty supersedes every situation.
Speaker 2: God's sovereignty supersedes every human limitation.
Speaker 1: You are chosen for the creation of the world.
Speaker 2: Wait, that means if he chose me before the creation
Speaker 2: of the world, he chose me before I messed up.
Speaker 2: That means he chose me before I got a divorce.
Speaker 2: That means he chose me before I had all these
Speaker 2: sexual relationships. That means he chose me before I started
Speaker 2: this horrible thing, this addiction. That means he chose me
Speaker 2: before I made that mistake. That means he chose me
Speaker 2: before I was abused by that person. That means he
Speaker 2: chose me before I made the decision to trust him.
Speaker 2: That means he chose me before I blew that opportunity. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he chose you before the foundation of the earth, So
Speaker 2: that means he can use you right now.
Speaker 1: Glory to God. I'm chosen, And look at this. He
Speaker 1: chose me.
Speaker 2: And then now that you've seen Ephesians one four, you're
Speaker 2: starting to understand why I called this teaching. God chose you,
Speaker 2: will you because by the time Paul is getting to
Speaker 2: the practical stuff in Ephesians four, five and six, he's like,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, there's still the old way of thinking
Speaker 2: that's not really you, but that you're used to, that's
Speaker 2: going to call you act put off.
Speaker 1: The old self.
Speaker 2: That's corrupted by sin and its deceitful desires, just trying
Speaker 2: to trick you into thinking that you're something other than
Speaker 2: God's kid. That's trying to trick you into thinking that
Speaker 2: you need something other than Jesus to complete you. That's
Speaker 2: trying to trick you into giving into lesser things to
Speaker 2: create a stop gap for the deep needs that only
Speaker 2: God can fulfill. Put that off, put it away, and
Speaker 2: reach for just like I reached for this twenty something
Speaker 2: else twenty three point seven fluid outs deer part Reach
Speaker 2: for the living water, Reach for the breath of God,
Speaker 2: reach for gratitude, reach for a patient response, Reach for
Speaker 2: what I had to say to Holly this morning, I'm
Speaker 2: sorry that I was sharp about that thing last night
Speaker 2: that was just out of bounds. I'm sorry I was
Speaker 2: sharp with you, and she's like it's cool. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I reacted like that. Reach for I was
Speaker 2: wrong rather than just trying to bear down and be right.
Speaker 2: I'm like, ah, yeah, that's it right there, that's me
Speaker 2: choosing Watch this verse twenty three Ephesians for stay with me,
Speaker 2: because I know, I know, I'm covering a whole book
Speaker 2: of the Bible in just about twenty minutes. But he said,
Speaker 2: to be made new in the attitude of your mind,
Speaker 2: and to put on the new self created to be
Speaker 2: like God. Now you are created to be like God
Speaker 2: in true righteousness and holiness. But you have to reach
Speaker 2: for it moment by moment. I don't mean reach for
Speaker 2: it that you have to strive for it. I mean
Speaker 2: you reach for it like you're receiving a gift from God.
Speaker 2: So in this moment, what do you need to reach
Speaker 2: for and receive? And in order to do that, what
Speaker 2: do you need to release and let go of? God
Speaker 2: chose you, So you got to let go of all
Speaker 2: the reasons why he shouldn't have, all of the excuses
Speaker 2: that you make why he can't Moses get in. These
Speaker 2: are Bible characters that they were holding so tightly to
Speaker 2: their excuses that they almost struggled to receive God's empowerment.
Speaker 2: And you do that sometimes I don't have the time,
Speaker 2: I don't have the money. I don't have the skills,
Speaker 2: I don't have the intelligence, I don't have the background.
Speaker 1: Release that and reach for what God has given. You.
Speaker 1: Choose to believe who God says you are.
Speaker 2: I choose to believe that Jesus Christ has made me righteous.
Speaker 2: I choose to believe that the Holy Spirit lives within me.
Speaker 2: I choose to walk in it. I choose to flow
Speaker 2: in it. I choose to turn the other cheek in
Speaker 2: this situation. I choose to walk by that offense. I
Speaker 2: choose to forgive. I choose to speak life. I choose
Speaker 2: to go forward. God chose you, will You choose you
Speaker 2: the true you, like I chose my workout clothes, like
Speaker 2: I chose the bottle of water. Hey, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 2: I choose the stained shirts sometimes too. I choose the
Speaker 2: horrible attitude Sometimes too. I choose the gossip, which feels
Speaker 2: so good going down, but makes me sick once I
Speaker 2: start feeling it burned the pit of my stomach. When
Speaker 2: I ruin relationships because I talk bad about people behind
Speaker 2: their back, so then I can't interact with them well
Speaker 2: to their face.
Speaker 1: And I'm coming to realize that's not the me I
Speaker 1: want to be at all. I don't want to be
Speaker 1: that me.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be a backbiting me, a petty me.
Speaker 1: I want to be a bigger me.
Speaker 2: Like not only physically through exercise, but I want to
Speaker 2: be a bigger me in my spirit. I want to
Speaker 2: be big enough to look at somebody and see that
Speaker 2: they have pain, they have feelings, they have reasons, they
Speaker 2: have dreams, they have goals. I want to see people
Speaker 2: not just like trees, like the blind man who had
Speaker 2: his eyes opened by Jesus saw at first. I want
Speaker 2: to see people as people. I want to see the
Speaker 2: gifts in my kids, not just the not just the
Speaker 2: little things that trip me up in their everyday behavior.
Speaker 2: I want to see I want to see their intention.
Speaker 1: I want to.
Speaker 2: See the seeds of what God has put in them.
Speaker 2: I want to see not only the real me, I
Speaker 2: want to see the real them. I want God to
Speaker 2: show me that. I need eyes to see. I want
Speaker 2: to see what God sees and I want to be that.
Speaker 1: But I have to.
Speaker 2: Choose it, no different than choosing what I drink. I
Speaker 2: really want to die coke and I'm gonna drink a
Speaker 2: die coke. It's just an analogy people. No different than
Speaker 2: I choose to get a few more reps when I'm
Speaker 2: working out, No different than I choose to let something go.
Speaker 1: Always have to have my way.
Speaker 2: It starts from knowing that God chose me just as
Speaker 2: I am, without one plea, but that his blood was
Speaker 2: shed for me. God chose me, He saved me, he
Speaker 2: loves me.
Speaker 1: He's for me, He's with me. God chose you. Will you?
Speaker 2: Will you choose not to abandon yourself to the addiction
Speaker 2: not today. Will you choose to reach out to somebody
Speaker 2: that you love today rather.
Speaker 1: Than just isolating and staying in your head?
Speaker 2: Will you choose to move forward that one simple thing,
Speaker 2: on that big dream that you have today? God chose you,
Speaker 2: will you? Sometimes we choose our past over our future.
Speaker 2: Sometimes we choose distraction over being present. God doesn't need
Speaker 2: to be convinced to choose you. You can't find many people
Speaker 2: in the Bible that.
Speaker 1: God took a vote about.
Speaker 2: Y'all think I should use Moses angels, y'all think I
Speaker 2: should use Gideon.
Speaker 1: Y'all think I should use Peter.
Speaker 2: Even when he wanted to use Judas, he chose to
Speaker 2: use him, But Judas hanged himself.
Speaker 1: He chose that. He chose to.
Speaker 2: Give up, and God never gives up on you. Maybe
Speaker 2: you're in a place where you want to give up
Speaker 2: on yourself right now. Maybe you want to give up
Speaker 2: on ever being free. Maybe you want to give up
Speaker 2: on maturity. Maybe you want to give up on discipline.
Speaker 2: Maybe you want to give up on becoming more balanced.
Speaker 2: Maybe you want to give up on coming out of
Speaker 2: this condition. Maybe you want to give up on receiving healing.
Speaker 2: If God won't give up on you, you don't get too.
Speaker 2: If Jesus went all the way to the cross for
Speaker 2: you and endured the cross, despising it shame and sat
Speaker 2: down at the right hand of God, you must endure also.
Speaker 2: It may take a little long, it may hurt a little,
Speaker 2: it may hurt a lot. But the God who chooses
Speaker 2: you is asking you to choose today, he said, I
Speaker 2: said before you life and death, choose life.
Speaker 1: Choose to be the new you.
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