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I have the privilege to lead you in communion.

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Some amazing truths happen when we accept the gift of Jesus dying on the cross.

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One, we're adopted into God's family.

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Thank you so much.

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We are declared royal children of the King of Kings.

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And secondly, we are, since we are a family, we're united with Jesus in his death.

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Since we are united with Jesus, it's another powerful truth that comes from 2 Corinthians 5.14.

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Since that we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe we have also died to our old life.

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Even my little puny brain can sort of make some sort of sense out of this.

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Because I'm united to him.

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Once Jesus died, then I'm somehow connected to dying for myself, to myself.

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Also being united to Jesus, we are made right with him.

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It's in 1 Corinthians 1.30.

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Being united to Jesus, we receive a new life.

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It says in 2 Corinthians 5 15.

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Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.

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In belonging to God, we become a new person.

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I've never seen this before, but there's a powerful statement in 2 Corinthians 6 7 that says, We use the weapon of righteousness in the right hand for attack and in the left hand for defense.

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This is our combat pose with the evil one.

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Attack is where we declare the truths about God and our truths about our relationship with God.

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And defense is where we reject the lies of the evil one.

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I'll give you one example.

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I'm not doing a sermon, so I'll slow down.

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In attack, I am no longer a slave to cry slave to he to sin.

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I am a slave to righteousness.

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It's my attack pose.

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And in defense, one example would be the lie that the evil one likes to throw at us so many times.

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I'm not good enough for God.

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My defense, I am right with God.

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I am precious to God.

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God died for me.

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As we take the bread and the wine, let us realize that we are in combat mode.

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There is truths over our lives that we should affirm regularly.

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And we should reject every time he plants thoughts or lies against our destiny.

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So let's take the bread and wine.

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Let's rejoice in Jesus' name.