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welcome to Enjoying Everyday Life with

New York Times best-selling author Joyce

Meyer on today’s program Joyce will be

teaching from her series The Fearsome

four when we feel discouraged defeated

or overwhelmed by the pressures of Life

chances are we’re being hit by what

Joyce calls the Fearsome four fear guilt

worry and insecurity the devil uses

these obstacles to keep us from God’s

calling but with Christ we can defeat

all of them and reach God’s perfect plan

for our life be empowered with today’s

teaching and learn to embrace God’s

Fearless form peace confidence love and

courage now here’s Joyce with today’s

teaching

every morning when I would go to have

my prayer and time with God

I would go over one of two things all of

my problems

and all of my mistakes

oh God I’m so sorry God I’m sorry I’m

sorry I’m sorry God I know I’m a mess

I’m so sorry sorry sorry

but you know the Bible says ask and

receive that your joy may be full I was

asking but I never took the time to stop

and receive

and I’d like to encourage you from now

on when you ask God to forgive your sins

for anything that you’ve done wrong take

a moment and say and I receive your

forgiveness right now

don’t just ask but ask and receive why

that you can take that next step so your

joy

can be full

and one morning as I was doing my

regular routine I really remember the

Lord speaking to me and saying are you

going to fellowship with me this morning

are your problems and your sins

do you spend more time with your sins

than you do with God

do you spend more time thinking about

what you’ve done wrong than what he’s

done right

where sin does abound Grace does much

more

abound

now we’re going to go to Romans chapter

6. I’m going to try to do something here

that sometimes I hesitate to do

because Romans chapter 6 7 8 are a

little bit intense in that you have to

really study them for usually a long

time before

they break through that old religious

mindset that we have

and really begin to Dawn on us what God

has actually done for us through Christ

but I’m going to take a chance that I’ve

got out some of the really

serious folks this morning that are

really wanting to learn and go on with

God

and um

I’m going to believe the people watching

by television are the ones who God has

led to turn on today and

you’re ready for a breakthrough in this

area so Romans chapter 6

beginning in verse 2. how can we who

died to sin

live in it

any longer

so

he doesn’t say sin is dead

oh let me tell you sin is Alive and Well

on Planet Earth

it will scream at you day in and day out

but we’re dead to sin

what do you mean Joyce we’re dead to sin

I mean that as a new creature in Christ

you have a new heart a new want to a new

attitude and the truth is is that the

new you

the god filled you the spiritual you

does not want to sin

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see I knew we’re gonna have to go slow

now did you see even when I said that

I’m sure the first thing you thought is

well yeah then why do I

well you’re going to see in 11 verses I

hope to show you

that you’re not seeing yourself as you

should see yourself and you’re not

properly looking at sin for what it is

can I tell you something

sin has been taken care of

everything that we need to deal with sin

every time it raises its ugly head

has been taken care of

the first thing that you’ve got to know

is you’re a new creature in Christ all

things have passed away

God says I will give you my spirit I

will put a new heart in you I will take

the Stony hard heart out of you and give

you a heart of Flesh sensitive to the

touch of God

that means that on the inside of you God

is living there the holy spirit is

living there you don’t have to really be

afraid of falling into sin I hate that I

fell into sin we don’t fall into sin we

choose it

now sometimes we choose it before we

really realize what we’re doing you know

you can get impatient or lose your

temper

those are things that I would call just

for the sake of talking about it sins of

the flesh they’re just that old stinking

flesh still rearing its ugly head and

we just got some more growing to do

but I honestly don’t believe

if you really understand who you are in

Christ and I think that’s a lot of it

that we’re missing I don’t really think

that you can purposely knowingly

habitually sin

I said I don’t think you can purposely

knowingly habitually sin

and God sees your heart

and just in case you think I’ve lost my

mind I’ve got scripture to back up

everything I’m saying

what I really believe is sometimes we’re

afraid almost

to preach the kind of freedom and the

kind of liberated attitude that I’m

going to preach to you today because we

almost think well if we do that then

aren’t we giving people a license to sin

if you tell people they don’t have to be

afraid to sin then aren’t you just

inviting them to sin no because the

whole point is is you’ve got a new heart

and you don’t want to anyway

why in the world would you be here today

if you were looking for a reason to sin

so why should I talk to you like you’re

looking for a reason to sin and leave

you in a bunch of fear

you better not see him

verse three are you ignorant of the fact

that all of us who’ve been baptized into

Christ Jesus were baptized into his

death

we’re buried therefore with him by the

baptism into death so that just as

Christ was raised from the dead by the

glorious power of the father so we too

might habitually live and behave in

newness of life

now what this really means is we have to

learn how to identify with Christ and I

don’t know how to get you to believe

this except to just say that if you

don’t ever get around to believing it

you’re going to have a hard time but

what the bible really teaches us is that

Christ was our substitute

and that we are joint heirs with him

and everything that

that he suffered to gain

every victory that he gained for us when

he took sin to the cross

and died there with it

that moment sin lost its power over

anyone who would really believe in Jesus

Christ because what God saw on that day

on the cross in Christ he saw every

person that ever would believe in his

son Jesus Christ and trust him for their

salvation

spiritually we were in him when he died

we were in him when he was raised from

the dead according to the Bible we are

seated right now in Heavenly places in

Christ Jesus even though we’re standing

right here right now we are also in him

and if you never know who you are in

Christ

you’re never going to get this

when you’re baptized

he said do you not know

that when you were baptized you were

baptized into that death I died to the

old way of living

I’m resurrected to a brand new life it’s

not just some holy bath that we get are

some ritual that we go through because

we’re supposed to there’s a wonderful

wonderful meaning to baptism it’s an

outward sign of an inward decision that

God already knows that you’ve made but

you’re actually making a declaration to

the whole spiritual world including evil

spirits look at this I’m dying to you

and all of your way of living devil and

I’m raising up to a brand new life

through Christ Jesus

my gosh if we would ever know what he’s

done for us

and who we are in him

now listen

we sin

but I do not believe that our identity

is

sinner

and I’ve had a lot of people

give me a lot of trouble over this

but I’m so convinced that I’m just gonna

step out and say it again

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there’s a difference in who you are and

what you do

my children are my children I don’t like

everything they do but they’re still my

children and you don’t want to mess with

my kids

matter of fact I don’t even want you

coming around telling me what they do

that you don’t like because frankly it’s

none of your business I will take care

of my kids well

come on

and I mean if we have that attitude as

human beings what kind of an attitude do

you think God has when Satan the accuser

of the Brethren tries to accuse us

before God

but what you have to do when Satan comes

around and reminds you of what you’ve

done wrong and then tries to load you

down with guilt you need to say you need

to say it is none of your business

because I do not belong to you I have

died to you in all your way of living

and I belong to another now

I belong to God

and I am his problem and his business

and he will take care of me

and until you learn how to do that

somebody make it happy before we get out

of here today

let me tell you something I fought

I studied for years and years

to know what I’m trying to share with

you today

and even if I can just make you hungry

to get a revelation on this I would have

accomplished something

this is a hard thing to get because

Satan is there

trying to say you’ve got to be kidding

nothing can be that good

you think you can just go around and do

whatever you want to and then just

apologize it’s all going to be over

we need to realize that God is a god of

hearts and he sees our heart

you know if you’re just fooling around

and you’re just looking for an excuse to

sin and

then I can’t help you today

there’s nothing I can do to help you but

if you’re serious if you really love God

and you know that Jesus is your only

hope

and you really want to live to please

God

which you do or you wouldn’t be here

today

people that are looking for an excuse to

live a sloppy life don’t take vacation

to go to a meeting like this on a Friday

morning

that’s just not that’s just not what you

do now there may be some you know

Channel Surfers out there that have just

kind of accidentally turned this program

on and you’re trying to see if I’m crazy

or if I’ve really got something that you

might like to hear

and I don’t know where you’re at but

I’ll say to you if you if you love God

if you’ve received Christ as your savior

and if you really want to live the life

that Jesus died for you to live then

you’re never going to do it if you’re

loaded down with guilt and condemnation

all the time over everything that you’ve

ever done wrong there’s nothing that we

have done wrong that God cannot fix

through the blood of Jesus Christ

nothing

I bet you that this place has got people

in it today and there’s probably even

more watching by TV that you feel so

guilty about the way your kids have

turned out

and you’re just sure it’s your fault

well can I tell you something

even if you didn’t do everything right

you made some mistakes and could have

done some things better as a parent

you know what your kids can recover if

they want to

my parents didn’t raise me right I had a

nightmare for a childhood

but when I was grown and I chose God for

myself

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gave me back double

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