Embracing God's Initiative
Brilliant Perspectives
Graham Cooke
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🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
God is always making the first move, and our only job is to embrace the delight of a responsive life. His love invites us into a life of newness and freedom, giving us permission to receive without striving.
Key Scriptures:
Hebrews 8:6. But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises
2 Corinthians 5:17. If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Brilliant Perspective's podcast. I'm your host J. Lynn Bowden, and this month |
| 0:07.9 | we're diving into something really special called the Responsive Life. You know, this teaching is all about |
| 0:15.4 | embracing the radical truth that God always initiates and we have the pleasure of simply learning how to respond. |
| 0:25.8 | I mean, isn't that amazing? |
| 0:29.1 | We didn't come to God because we had all the answers. He made the first move and we simply said yes. |
| 0:37.2 | Today's episode is a beautiful reminder that our relationship with God isn't about striving or performing to earn his love. |
| 0:47.1 | It's about recognizing that he is always inviting us into newness and giving us full permission to receive and live in his love every single day. |
| 0:58.0 | Let's jump in with Graham Cook and explore what it means to live a life of response. |
| 1:07.0 | God always initiates. |
| 1:12.0 | He always initiates. He always initiates. You know, we get saved on a fragment of the truth. |
| 1:20.0 | Right? God didn't say, well read the whole Bible and we'll talk about the possibility of you |
| 1:27.7 | getting saved. You didn't do that. We got saved on a fragment of the truth. We made the biggest decision of our life on a fragment of the truth. We made the biggest decision of our life on a fragment of the truth. |
| 1:37.0 | And we come into this incredible place of promise and a sense of his presence and an amazing encounter with God. |
| 1:52.0 | God created salvation to fulfill the primary purpose laid out in |
| 1:59.8 | Genesis 126. Let's make man in our image. Let's create sons. And he creates our |
| 2:07.7 | experience in the light so that we can walk as children of light. |
| 2:14.0 | So we can walk into a dark place and bring a light that enables people to see. |
| 2:21.0 | The Bible says that the God of this world has blinded people from the |
| 2:25.8 | glorious light of the gospel. Well we're the answer to that blinding. |
| 2:30.3 | Are you being yourself in God opens people's eyes and causes them to see something. |
| 2:37.0 | Everything that he did in the Genesis story was good and it's the same with the salvation story. |
| 2:45.8 | We are now part of God's story in primary purpose |
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