It was very important to understand that that was the physical body of the word made flesh.

That was his touchable, feelable, bruisable body on that cross, piled with the sense of mankind.

And everything that was against us nailed to that cross. That is your victory. Amen.

All right.

All right, would you tell me, as you're seated, let's go through one through five, and I'm

going to get you started and you're going to complete it.

Number one is this, shadows. They cannot exist

apart from the light. So when we're in a shadowy place, we can know that right on the other side

is the light. Number two, tell me what our human bent is. Our human bent is to swap substance for shadow.

Number three, when we make a shadow the head, the growth will not hold. There is a growth that

comes from God and there's a growth that does not come from God. And when we are detached from the head,

it may air up like a balloon, but it is going to pop because most of the time, a growth process

will begin with a shrinking back, a cutting back, a pruning back, and then a fresh season

of growth will come. Then number four, I know this is a long one, but it's so important.

It's got all our words in it.

Our refuge is in the shadow of the one who is both substance and light.

I just love the fact that he is not only the substance, but he is the light.

He is all the things. Somebody say out loud,

he is all the things. Oh, say it one more time. Jesus is all the things. I mean, that's just

just all you need. And number five, and this is, this is the gospel. Number five, the cross

triumph over every dark shadow.

That brings us toward our final one, but we're going to take a couple of minutes to get there.

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