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Just so you're not worried and thank that.

We don't know what we're doing up here.

But sometimes, we don't.

We're going to swap the ministry of music and the hymn.

So don't think I messed up when we go into the hymn.

Oh, that's my last name comes from Psalm 34, the first aid versus.

Let's hear this word from God.

I Will Bless The Lord at all times is praise.

Shall continually be in my mouth.

My soul makes its boast in the Lord.

Let the humble here and be glad to magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together.

I sought the Lord and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

Let them and be radiant.

So, your faces shall never be ashamed.

This poor soul cried and Was Heard by the Lord and was saved from every trouble.

The angel of the Lord encampeth around those who fear Him and delivers them.

Oh, taste, and see that the Lord is good.

Happy.

Are those who take refuge in him?

And from the New Testament, 2nd Corinthians chapter 5. Verses 16 to 21.

From now on there for we regard no one from a human point of view, even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view.

We know him no longer in that way.

So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation.

Everything old has passed away.

So everything has become new.

All this is from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation that is in Christ.

God was reconciling the world to himself not counting their transgressions against them and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.

So we are ambassadors of Christ since.

Is making his appeal through us.

We entreat you on behalf of Christ be reconciled to God.

For our sake, he made him to be sin who knew no sin.

So, that in him, we might become the righteousness of God.

This is the word of the Lord.

God.

Let us pray.

May all of our thoughts this day.

O Lord be honorable to you may our worship be acceptable and may your words only your truth.

Be what?

We remember this day for Christ's sake.

Bomb in.

In the many years did Cecily and I have had the privilege of living with and serving alongside my side people in East Africa.

We've learned a lot about their life as their Traditions, their ceremonies, how they do things.

One unique thing that Moss I do is they go through passage about you.

One of the passage events is becoming a warrior.

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Of time, when your prowess is is exalted, and your strength is is exalted as well, and get you do war games in this kind of think.

It used to be many years ago that there was intertribal Warfare.

Now, not so much, even though some Clans don't quite get along with each other.

Nevertheless.

They still continue a tradition when some plans meet together, and we've seen this, even in modern day playing out in politics, when opposing leader.

Don't want to debate something Bell in Acton this little tradition, when two clans of Warriors are coming together.

They're in their full regalia with spear and and shield.

And they meet each other.

You don't know what's going to happen.

But one of the leaders of the warrior group on one side will reach down and pick up a clump of green grass.

The other leader will do the same and as they approached each other and their men behind them.

They extend their Shield hand whether it's right or left.

They extend their Shield hand with the grass to there.

Counterpart.

What a powerful image of vulnerability of peace.

Incredibles, sign leaving themselves open, perhaps that someone else in the other Clan might run them through with a sphere.

Or perhaps the other man might attack, but no, they trust and they believe in their action of bringing.

Peace.

Today were talking about becoming about being.

What's this connection last week.

We talked about being transformed today or talk to you about being reconciled be reconciled.

It, remind Josh of that the earliest, part of our scriptural Journey, where the people of Israel are told the name that Moses received from God.

I am who I am simply in the Hebrew be.

It's the, it's the verb be to be in.

It means existence, it means being It's the essence.

And we have in our our day and age, we have gone through many folks in Psychology that have told us that there is that in herself.

So I'm going to call it the ego that drives all that we do.

That is the the center of what makes us do this or say that or act this way.

And that's what being in Christ impacts the very core, the very essence of our being and God changes us as we saw last week and as we're beginning to see this week, as we look at 2nd Corinthians, But if anyone is in Christ, that person is a new creation.

If any person is in Christ, that one is a new creation.

There's a new creation that Essence changes.

The way that we talked about the other week about living, according to the flesh, know that has changed and actually in the text that we read today, when it was translated, human point of view factual Greek.

There is Kaka Sharky which we talked about the other day, according to the flesh, everything going against away from God, that is been changed because of what Christ has done about transformation.

And in that transformation, not only does he give us new life, life, eternal, and right here in abundance.

So begins the process of sanctification and changing other things in and threw us in Christ in Christ.

This is one of Paul's important phrase.

We are in Christ being in price for Paul recalls for him, the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.

It is God's.

Action for us, which brings us to the foot of the cross and compels us to die, to self, to no longer be according to the flesh, but to be changed and moving.

According to Christ.

We die to self.

It is God, who comes and does this work in and through us, and essentially, we are completely New Creations.

Any y'all liked Garden here in Florida or in the past and some people, we do Cecily, Cecily can make piles.

Oh my God, that woman can make piles in the yard worn out to make a pile and go to the backyard and I'll be a dozen more piles.

I have to pick up.

We like to Garden least.

I have a big organic garden in Tennessee.

Can you know that you know the sea are, you could have seen you put on the counter, put in a baggie and it's just going to stay a sea bat.

That seed has to give up being a c to be a plan.

It after it loses its identity, as a seed and become something else.

Something green, something that produces fruit or flour or chlorophyll or auction, if it changes, it's completely different.

That's what the the rider here, polish, trying to get across it.

And it uses a phrase, Akai naked pieces.

It's a hard to translate but it's it's his idea of a new creation, New Creation.

Jump translated, a new creation from a new creature.