Here lies the old me. The kid my parents wanted me to be. All the ways the world hurt me.

Goodbye to my fears and anxieties. The reason why my ex left me. Rest in peace to the old me. All the fourth live locations

Indianapolis, North Houston, Tulsa, Scottsdale, Cedar Rapids, Boise, wherever you were

at, welcome we are wrapping up this series our IP rest in peace to the old me

where we have been looking at what it looks like for Christians those of us who have put

our faith in Jesus to live out the new life.

The Bible says in 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 verse 17,

if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation.

The moment you trusted in Jesus,

you were not made better, you were made new. You were born again. And now the

Christian life is living out who God calls us and who God says that we are. So we've been

marching through that. Tonight we're going to wrap up the series and talk about a

issue that I think, candidly, if anything, the weight I carry is how to convince a room like this of the enormous,

enormous importance of what we're about to talk about.

Before I dive in there, let me invite you into my world.

I've got a three-year-old daughter named Monroe.

Here's a picture of her.

She is just princess for days.

And when you have girls like my son and I've got another you know newborn

son but with her the contrast is so stark in that he wants to wrestle wants to

play sports wants to punch things and he wants to wrestle, wants to play sports, wants to punch things, and she wants to dress up like a princess and have tea parties.

And so we have tea parties, and we sit down and we walk through and she'll make, you know, if you have a three-year-old and this is going somewhere

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