Don’t Sit in Coach

Brilliant Perspectives

Graham Cooke

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Every negative situation carries an invitation to see things differently. In today’s episode, Graham Cooke reframes difficult circumstances as beautiful opportunities to strengthen our faith and upgrade our perspective. When we learn to distinguish between our temporary feelings and our permanent identity in Christ, we discover that our new nature was designed to rejoice.

Key Scriptures:

+ Galatians 2:20. I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me...

+ Ephesians 4:22-24. That you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth...

+ Colossians 3:9-10. Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new self which is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the one who created him...

+ Philippians 2:13. For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure...

+ Romans 6:11. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus...

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Have you ever noticed how sometimes we can become so focused on what's wrong with our circumstances
0:06.8	that we completely miss what God might actually be doing? Hey friends, welcome back to the Brilliant
0:13.8	Perspectives podcast where learning is powered by the heart. In today's episode, Graham Cook
0:20.3	unpacks the difference between living
0:22.4	from our old self and stepping into our true nature in Christ. You'll discover why joy is already
0:30.0	built in to your identity and how laying aside the old self creates a wide open space
0:36.7	where you can live freely and fully alive to God.
0:41.3	And hey, wherever life finds you today, this is a moment to simply reset your perspective in Jesus.
0:48.9	Now, let's jump in with Graham Cook.
0:53.9	Talking to a guy who was bitter and resentful at being fired from his job.
1:00.8	And he went on for 10 minutes about how they betrayed him and this, that, and the other,
1:04.9	and how he felt, and I'm too old to get a job, the kind of job that I really need and
1:09.8	really want, and I probably may never
1:11.9	work again, and, you know, and all this angst and bitterness and resentment. So I said, okay, I have
1:20.3	a question for you. What does the Lordship of Jesus mean to you right now? Because it seems to me that the Lordship of Jesus matters
1:29.7	on days like this. Yeah? He's not just around for the good stuff. He's doubly around for the stuff that would
1:39.0	knock your head sideways. What does the Lordship of Jesus mean for you right now? Here's my observation on your
1:46.2	circumstances. What if you didn't get fired? What if God released you from a job that you would
1:53.5	never have left so that you could do something better? That's remodeling. They said, what do you
1:59.9	mean? I said, well, did you said, what do you mean?
2:02.9	I said, well, did you like the job that you had?
2:03.9	Well, not really.
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