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You can never get the new thing that Christ has done for us to fit into old thinking.

I'm Joyce Meyer, and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt.

How many of you are really glad that you either know or are learning the word of god you know i was thinking during worship the word of god

and if it's not working for you, then it's because you're not working it.

When we do what the Bible tells us to do, our lives will change. They don't change all at once. They change gradually little by little.

But if you stick with God, your life will be completely and totally transformed.

I'm going to talk to you this morning about the difference in law and grace and how even as new covenant Christians many times we mixed a lot of the old

covenant stuff in with it and how it weakens it. You know, the devil wants us to be legalistic.

I think one of the biggest challenges that we will ever have in our life is to live a holy life without becoming a legalistic.

We are called to holiness, but so many people that try to live a holy life then make so many rules and regulations for

themselves that they become legalistic. And one of the things that happens, the moment you become a

legalist is you start judging other people that aren't doing what you're doing or as much as what you're doing are the way

you're doing it. I've been a legalistic Christian. I would have made a wonderful Pharisee.

And I would imagine that I have some friends here today that could say the same thing.

Jesus has done so much for us, but we really cannot enjoy it until we learn to let go of the old and take hold of the new.

I want to start in John in Matthew chapter 9.

A lot happens in one chapter of the Bible is pretty amazing, but Jesus starts out here and he gets in a boat, crossed over to the other side, to Copernium.

And verse 2 says they brought to him a man that was paralyzed, prostrated by illness,

and he said to him, your sins are forgiving you.

Well, the scribes and Pharisees didn't like that because religious people never like anything.

You've never seen a sour puss to you run into a religion i mean just a real i'm not talking about i'm not talking about

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