Dead Means Dead

Brilliant Perspectives

Graham Cooke

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

God isn’t seeing the old you when He looks at you, because He knows that Jesus already dealt with that on the cross. This means that God is no longer dealing with your behavior. Instead, He’s focused on developing your new identity in Jesus.

Key Scriptures:

+ Acts 4:13. Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.

+ Colossians 3:3. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

+ John 16:13-15. But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Brilliant Perspectives podcast. I'm your host, Jalen Bowden. And if you're
0:07.2	new here, you're about to dive headfirst into a community, learning how to live a relational
0:13.2	lifestyle with God. Now today, we're continuing our month-long conversation all about the cross,
0:20.5	because so many of us don't yet realize the fullness of freedom that's available in Christ.
0:27.3	And I love this quote from today's clip, where Graham says that,
0:31.2	dead means dead. God isn't looking at the old you when he looks at you, because he knows that
0:37.9	Jesus already dealt with that on the cross. This means that God is no longer dealing with your
0:44.4	behavior. Instead, he's focused on developing your new identity in Jesus. Now this is the good news
0:53.2	of the cross. Let's jump in with Graham as he explains more about the beauty of a life lived in
1:00.0	freedom. This whole thing is so amazing to me. The God had great delight in seeing the mold of
1:15.3	the old you shattered at the cross. He was so excited to know that you could be free of striving
1:24.0	in your relationship with him. And that he could begin this relational process of making you
1:30.5	in his image. You remember in Acts 4-13, as the religious leaders were questioning Peter and
1:38.1	John, these leaders were perplexed because they knew these guys didn't have an education,
1:46.8	but they also understood that the difference was they had been transformed by the years of
1:52.6	walking and talking with Jesus. And I think the scripture says, now when they saw the boldness
1:58.6	of Peter and John, and they perceived that they were uneducated and untrained man, they marveled,
2:06.2	and they realized that they had been with Jesus. That's the difference, right?
2:12.7	At the cross, the mold was broken as to how to have a relationship with God.
2:20.4	It was no longer through keeping all the rules and the regulations and getting to be in his presence
2:27.1	a few times a year at the temple. Jesus gladly took the initiative to break the mold.
2:35.5	Walking and talking with his people in a new and living way.
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