The Eyes of My Father

Sweet. Well, hello everyone. So, I got these glasses especially for me and you because see what you don't know is I can see out of this part and I can see out of this part which is kind of ironic now as I'm saying that because today we're going to talk about those two different realities and two different ways of seeing. So, um happy Father's Day to all you great dads, all you average dads and all you dads like me that were not very good dads. Um, I think there's something to be said about honesty in who we are, which is going to be a tough one today because I know a lot of people sitting here probably maybe have never thought about this, but you don't know me.

You know, you just know this guy that's standing here over the last five months occasionally that talks to you about this magnificent unseen God that changed my life. I want you to know who he is the way that I know him, even as you're getting to know him in your own life, right? Um, but a lot of you don't even know who I am. Um, and it's important to know who I was so you have a better perspective of who I am because then you can really do like I do and give all the glory for the life that stands in front of you to the one that put this life in me and is shaping the life in me. So, here's the crazy thing about God. For two weeks, I knew I was going to stand here.

And for two weeks, I was trying to pull out a file cabinets within to say, "Okay, what are we doing? What are we doing?" I read God's word. He shows me things. So, I'm trying to process a sermon, but at the same time, I'm like, "What do you think, Lord? What do you want me to say? What What do you want to pull out of what you planted in me in this walk?" And you know what he said? Nothing for almost two weeks. And I'm like, "What is happening here? I got gum in my mouth. God, I do that every time. So, I'm What do you do? Right. The pocket. So, I'm like, where are you, Lord? Because you know my heart. My heart says, I want to speak what you want spoken.

And you know that I'm stuck here contemplating what exactly you want me to say if you tell me nothing. So, then I went through a little phase a few days ago where I'm finally starting to panic a little. I'm like, "Hello." Um, okay. I see what you're doing. You want me to start moving and you're gonna come meet me in the movement. Okay. So, I'm going to start preparing. So, I start building some slides and putting things in. And I would look at it and like one slide and one message was like, "Well, that's great." And then the next slide was not great. And I noticed that the problem was they just there was no greatness amongst them. Like God's greatness.

I'm like, "This feels like friction. Lord, there's no I don't feel your spirit, the the buttery smooth that it should be coming from you. So, I went to bed on Thursday night and I was desperate because I was saying, "God, I don't I don't understand what you're doing. So, are you going to get me up there? Is that what we're doing? You're just put me up there." And I'm gonna say, "Guys, there's no slides." And I said, "You know, if that's what you're going to do, I totally understand. And even though I'm freaked out in my mind, but in my spirit, let's rock." And I went to bed.

So I woke up the next morning, Friday morning, getting ready to take a shower. And I had met with a gentleman the day before because I was supposed to. They've got set up two weeks prior before I knew I was speaking. that little meeting, one little thought from that meeting with that gentleman floats across my intuitive mind and like a hyperlink all of a sudden it went you see Mission Impossible where they pull up the screen and they're like that's what this one little thought that he had said to me and all of a sudden it's like this is a real thing. Heaven opens up and God just dumps the buckets of revelation right into who you are. From a heavenly place, not from your own mind, but right through your mind into a space in your soul that's reserved and specially made by God so you can understand the things of God.

Now I'm like crying because I'm overwhelmed. And he he connected so many little puzzle pieces that were part of the seasons of journeys that I've been going through in his word. And you're only going to get this much of it because it was as much for me as was for me. And then there was some in it that is for you. And I'm going to just try to mix my life into it because isn't that what we're doing? Isn't that what we're doing? We're sitting here and we're abiding as a branch in a vine, right? So why? So that the vine can nourish us as a branch. We're never to be the vine, but we're connected. There's a union that's taking place. where each of us should be sitting here in our own space

outside of fellowship and in fellowship learning about our Lord and Savior. Not the one on the wall that sometimes we look at as a remote God before us, but as the one that wants union with who we are. That his life becomes ours. And there's a sweet intimacy in that that is hard for the mind to comprehend because it only shows up in that place that he made inside of you that used to be in an ark and then a temple and in a tabernacle and and it's the holy of holies that now is in you as a walking temple of God. Right? So that's the space that everyone's in different seasons of a walk which is so okay. God will meet us all exactly where we're at.

So, I'm hoping that as we fire a bunch of stuff out from that space, um, God told me I'm like I preach like a pine tree. Meaning, I got a main trunk and there's a main trunk to the message. The problem is the way I'm built as we're climbing that, I go out into the bow and then I go out into the branch and then I get out here and I dance on the edge of a twig and we talk about this. So then I have to hurry and scramble back over here. The main message only to climb a little more to do it again because I just the way I work and you just got to bear with me is we'll be talking about something but there's a whole adventure over here. It's a hyperlink that so I'm like you guys see this?

You got to see this. You got to and then we got to come back and then we're going to go over here again. So it might not all be for all of you but I promise you there's something for everybody because God is not a fragmented God. I could tell all of you you're my favorite, but I'm lying to all of you, but one. God can tell all of you you're his favorite, and you are. And he's not lying to one of you, and you each get the full portion of who he is because he's God. You don't just get So, so do you see the abundance of God? There's no jealousy amongst us. God is capable of putting a 100% of who he is and what he is inside of you and you and you and you and you. So there's no scarcity among us. There's only abundance. Okay? So keep that in mind as we go. Um oh, you know, I keep looking up you. I'm like, are we going to the next slide? Here we go.

So today in honor of Father's Day, now you got to bear with me because this ain't exactly how it's going to appear initially, but we're going to float through the concept of the eyes of our father. Now I'm sharing from my perspective. So just know I'm not a selfish guy, but I can only speak out of the experiences that I've had. So I say the eyes of my father. You should be saying the same thing. Let's talk about the eyes of my father. Um, so I have to share a little trash. And the trash is everything in my life that came before Christ. And I know that sounds complicated and maybe some people think, don't be so hard on yourself. But I'm just telling you, as I'm learning to see through the eyes of my father via the eyes of his son who is now in me, I can turn around in my life and see very clearly truths.

The truth about who I was. and a lot of the truths about why I was that way and what was necessary in that making of who I am today to be this forgotten. Right? So, we're going to float through a couple of stories here. I think it's a we sometimes read the Bible or we sit and we listen to someone speak and we hear words and they come into this edge of our pondering mind, the place that's the closest to the space that's in front of us right now. My word leaves my mouth and it comes and then right here it moves into you. And that space, that first space behind who you are is where you ponder things. It's your conscious awareness. So you're aware of what I'm saying.

But but I want you to pay attention to the words, right? Because we read this line in the Bible. John 14:9, Jesus says, "Whoever has seen me has seen the father." So I'm sitting here pondering this message about God. How do I talk about you as my father over and over and over and over again? And part of what he showed me Friday morning was only one way. You get to talk about me because it's the only way that you can even fashion some form of visibility to who I am. You got to talk about my son. I'm like, okay. So, Father's Day now has become this. How do we know our father? How do we know God? We know him in the only way that's been made possible to us through the invisible God made visible through his son.

Okay. So, I grew up in Beaver, good old Beaver, Utah. And we're going to talk about a little spiritual psychology. Okay? So, so follow me on this because I want to we got to look at real life construction of who we are so that we can come into true life spiritual conversation. Okay. So when I was born, I was given a name. However, my parents decided upon the name. You know, they brought the name forth out of their own experiences, right? So somehow someway they went Mark. Let's call him Mark. Like a hair lip dog. Mark. Mark. Mark. I'm like, how do you get my name? Now I'm not aware of my name. I'm just a baby. But as I start growing, so this Mark label is the first label that's put on who I'm going to be, right? Because later in life,

someone would say, "Who's Mark?" And my answer behind that label would come from all of my experiences in life. my pains, my hurts, my perception of the world, my u joys, uh the way people praised me, my experiences that created friction in the world in front of me. But it first got shaped by what everyone put on me. Here's an example. I was born into a family and my parents had a whole history in their own lives, right? So guess what? Not just bloodline but their history gets embedded in me as stories and not just as stories but as their own emotional reactions to life that is based off their history. Do you see? So this isn't bloodline DNA ancestry.

This is spiritual ancestry that is unseen and unexaminable by science. So Mark is now becoming a construct. So my parents because of their religious choices, guess what? Mark becomes that religion, right? You see, with no choice whatsoever because Mark doesn't understand these things. Now, I'm only speaking Mark in the third person for a moment, so don't let it annoy you. But but you got to realize in me, that's not me. That whole history, there are qualities that God's redeemed out of that to bring into this guy who's Mark. That's my name. No problem. But there's a there's an understanding to be had in how we're constructed. So I I'm in a religion.

I start picking up I see my dad react in certain ways in front of my eyes and I'm like, "Oh, you know, like a baby that starts testing you. They don't know they're testing you, but they're they they start getting a conscious mind that's forming out of life. So they poked mom, they poked dad to see the reaction to be like, "Oh, so you know, smack on the face from a 14-month-old out of nowhere." And we as adults respond with, "Don't do that." Right? You see that? That instant reaction. So baby sees that. So what did you just instill in baby? You're starting to teach baby how to respond to life. All these life lessons packed in us that we're not even aware as parents, we pack into our children.

So Mark learns all these things and then I'm born in a town. Well, listen, atoms, okay, let's go down to like a knowable particle to see where we came from after God put us here. Atoms form molecules. Molecules form cells. Cells form tissue. Tissues form organs. Organs form us bodies. Humans then here we are thinking we're all it. Nothing can get more grand. Look at me sentient being. I have arrived. We then form families. Families then form communities. Communities form nations. And nations form civilizations. Do you see that? So what's building all of it? We're just skipping a whole lot of the science. true blue stuff, biology, and we're moving right up into that space of the bodies, the families forming families.

So now that is its own entity, and we're shaping each other in the family. My parents are shaping me. I'm born in a town, which is now what? A community. Guess what? I'm shaped by the community because I'm out and about. So I'm getting input without even knowing I'm getting it. It's not even conscious based on the community I'm in. So you go to Africa, a community of families that grew from the atoms all the way up to make the cells that come together when mom and dad say hello at night. Babies formed and in Africa the community I'm desperate because I have nothing and at the same time I don't even know that there's anything to have. Do you see me born into that place?

So my perspective, my world view is very different than as American Mark born in Beaver and not wanting in the same way. Okay. So I'm just trying to show that because you got to be aware because I'm going to use some language as we go where there is an identity that becomes who I am. And I call him Mark because I don't I am Mark. Everything in me is connected as Mark. So now later on in life someone says who are you? I said, "Well, Mark, and then I'm going to click the hyperlink. Let me show you who that is. That is a guy that is all about self-preservation, that's all about self-justification, that's all about self-promotion. That's what all of us were.

Whether you want to admit it or not, every single one of us is that. That's the identity we know. Now, you can package all the color on it and all the personality. You can put all the things in it because your experiences are going to shape and mold you and you are unique. But at the core of you, you are that. And we're going to talk about why. Because of a moment where something changed when we were not originally that. For a brief moment in time, we were not all that I just described. We had a different identity. When you go to the story of Adam and Eve in a garden, an identity that was not about self, but was about God. So we in a for a brief moment, the Bible doesn't yell about this, how long it is, I get a sense reading about Adam and Eve in the beginning that they were they were growing and immature.

There was an innocence about them. So I look at it less as a fall from maturity into rebellion, but you can look at it a million ways. Mine's just an opinion. I look at it more as a children growing that just made their first choice and here we are in time. So it seems like in eternity but in eternity like just we're just part of the beginning maturing out of the first choice that humanity made in the beginning. Okay. So let's talk about where new identity. the eyes of

my father. You're going to start grasping that I'm not talking about his eyes. Okay? There's a million ways that we can speak about the gaze of our God. We can see in the scripture that he tells us that I will guide you with my eye. Well, do you see his eye? How's he guiding you? So, you see, so hyperlink, you click that word and you blow it up in relationship with Christ. You start zooming into the things in the Bible and you realize that what God is saying is come back to your real life. Let me demonstrate in my creation what I'm saying to you here. So think about your dad. So as a child, how did you know if your dad was mad at you? His face.

His face told you he's upset, right? How did you know he was proud? His face. You could see all of the emotions as you looked into what? Your father's eyes. What did it require? Proximity, right? Could you see your dad's face from a block away? No. Could you see your dad from a block away? Yep. Could you see how he felt about you from a block away? So, what did it require for you to start seeing that your that your dad's eyes could start guiding and sending you signals without speaking? And when your dad really wanted to tell you something with this face, what did he do? He gave you what I call a two-handed shoulder hug. Listen. Did my eyes just go cross?

I seen him be where he was. Your dad said, "Don't make me come down there." Okay. Our dad said, "Ah, I'm on my way." Okay. So, don't get the two discombobulated. But God does give us examples so that we can see with our physical eyes things that we need to understand spiritually. And it's all embedded in creation. We just got to pay attention. But here's the problem. In the beginning, we see that uh Adam and Eve were rocking and rolling in a relationship with no separation from God. Now, did they have eyes to see? We know this, right? We can see it all through Genesis. So, I I'll bring you into verses, but God did kind of lay on my heart something.

You all need to get in your Bible. I need to be in my Bible. There should be no other priority in our day than to open up this word of God that has this book that has made it through thousands of years to sit in front of your face that we just discredit as another book on the shelf like going out on a bow. We're over here on a branch for a second. So the word of God will change your life or it won't. You could stay over here in prayer and conversation and you will you have a a salvation in Christ that will bring you to heaven. So don't hear what I'm not saying. But if you stay right here, I'm telling you right now, you're going to miss on all of the space from there over to here as you get into the word that transforms who you are, who you think you are, and who you don't even know you are.

Right? So this is where a lot of these the space I speak about right the we've talked a couple of times about the east side versus the west side like the spiritual spatiality right so this is where the space began because prior to a decision made by Adam and Eve there was no space between us and God we were individuals and we had awareness humanity had awareness of itself Adam could look at Eve and know that's not me right so unique perspectives of humanity so two people growing but somehow both of them uniquely connected to a relationship with God. So they their movements were animated out of what was good, pure, righteous. There was no space between but the opportunity for space to arise existed.

You know where it existed? It's what we all got in choice. So in choice space is available because choice means opportunities to go to or from. Okay. So now watch eyes. We're born into a world with two gazes both out of us and in us opportunities. Opportunities for the eye of the one that is not God. All that he it consists of the h Satan this distributed adversarial reality that has powers and principalities behind it but it has no existence here until we give it in choice. Okay. So this is the moment where that first choice which don't get me wrong I'm I know there's a lot to package up here. We're not I know disobedience. I get sin that's not my language.

I don't speak that way but it's certainly there. Others can preach that way, but I want you to see some. These two growing up humans placed on earth to steward this massive place. God is starting to teach them. He gives them a choice. And he explains, "Don't do this or this will happen." We read it as there's all this beauty, all these trees and everything you need to sustain your life. And then there's that same tree, by the way, which is beautiful and amazing and has fruit on it, but don't eat that one. Right? So, unpack the symbology. We see in the Bible where Miss Eve decides that she Why do I lose track of this? Yeah. So, she sees the scripture before us says, "Eve saw."

Now, look, watch this eye conversation. Eve saw the tree and she what? Seeing that it was good and that there was fruit and then what happened? She began to desire. Okay. So look look at this micro zoomed in spectrum of choice. Choice isn't just a choice. Choice begins in a place and matures into decision. So So where are we at? The space between you and I. My words leave my mouth. They go through let's just say your forehead into that first space of pondering mind. And you start contemplating and pondering. There's

no decision made. The tree is beautiful. The fruit is truly good. But I keep staring at it and I begin to desire. So there's this whole progression, right? So tell me, where's the sin? Is there sin in this process we're talking about? I don't think there's sin. Is desire wrong? No. God said it is good. He didn't say the tree is bad, so don't eat the bad tree. He said your choice to eat it, that's what's buried behind his words, is going to be a problem. Why? So the desire is now moving into a decision. The decision becomes the minute where Eve goes. Now watch this. This is us. This is good for me. Separate from the good that God already told her.

So see in that moment space separation from God in the middle of disobedience. Some say rebellion. I don't know. Look at the whisper of the serpent. The serpent is introducing something from outside of herself. So we know there's a power outside that is influencing a creation of the space in the choice that she made to do what? Judge for herself what was good and bad. So in that moment she took and decided this is good. Now look from that moment on we see it everywhere in the Bible. Go to David on the building. Should have been somewhere else. Chose to stay behind. He's on the building and he what? looks and he sees what? So the the the Hebrew word is toove.

So anytime you see the word good, it's tove. This is the goodness of God manifested in front of your face. It is the sign of tove. It was good. She seen the tree and saw that it was Tove. David on the building sees Basheba and sees that she is Tove. Is she good? 100%. She's beautiful. Is that a problem? Not at all. Because beauty is God. The design of us is to we were made. He tells us in the you were good. I created and it was to so Dave what's the problem? He says he looked he saw that she was beautiful and then what did he do? He made the decision that she's good for me. So he took outside of what God says is good. But his choice came from another choice which was not to be out battling with the soldiers.

He decided to stay behind because what he's king. What is king? Part of his identity. That's his ego. Behind David is this whole layer of self. That's ego. That's what Mark stood behind his whole life. And my session is closed. Did we disconnect? And so I'm bringing up to a point here so you can see that the reality of our lives is really condensed in a sweet way into two identities. There is the identity that is self. So now take e put it on the front of identity and start looking at something for the next 30 - like this. Identity is self that is born out of this moment right here when we see self-consciousness is born. The separation is now a new identity that did not exist before that choice at the start of humanity and we now are all born as a consequence of that choice into when we are first born we're born into this identity of self.

We're going to call it empire identity. It is the identity of the world that we all are without question. Not one single one amongst us righteous before or after Christ only made righteous in Christ. Still not righteous. So don't get your head blown up. But come back to this identity of self that I was born into. Went through all these things. I don't know God. I'm aware that perhaps there is something because I can look up at the stars. I can see the planet. I didn't pay good attention in science class. My mind wasn't warped. I was like, "Yeah, something did something." I agree. So from that moment through life, even as I was embedded in a religion for till I was 14, 15 years old, I never had an experience with God to know who God was or anything about God.

I just went where people wanted me to go because I was my ego wanted to build something else that we all want. That's reputation. So Mark was a good boy. Mark went where he noticed people were like, "Oh, so good to see you here." "Oh, this is a good choice." Right? Oh, it's a good choice to be here because people look at me and go, "Oh, good choice." Yeah, good choice. Oh, Mark would do focus on classes to get grades because Mark would get something from people. He would get a little shiny star on the suit of self, the good boy star. So at 15 in a big family in Beaver, Utah, I had a little brother was terminally ill. So the attention of people was focused into the place that it should be.

So in families, remember families are building something within themselves. They're an organism of themselves. Attention Mark is over here not even understanding this is happening, but going, "Man, no one's where's everyone at? There's a there's a w a there's a scarcity. There's a scarcity that's created in my family. the scarcity of attention because Kevin gets attention because but little Mark doesn't get that this is I mean I know he's sick I know it's not good but the selfish eye is like yeah he'll be fine come here give me the attention because people give me little stars on my ego suit even though I didn't comprehend it then keep that in mind right so then I decide to join a debate forensics debate class in high school and I find out I'm good at it, which was weird because I didn't feel like I was good at a lot of things. But it was the first time I came home with these little trophy plaques and my parents, God bless them, doing the best they could prior to that. In that moment, I got something and it was a

different kind of attention and I was and I knew this in me. So now self decides that self needs to start. Oh, this is good reputation for me. I am going to dive head deep into this. and I crushed it. So, do you see the shaping of identity that is fed from external? Right? So, I say all this to say there's not even condemnation in how we're built. We grow up and at 18 we're like, "Woohoo, freedom." Right? Did we all do that for the most part? But the reality is it is a very cramped sense of freedom. We just don't know it because everything that we are built into is mostly from external input. We're not even free from an identity that we might not have ever been if I was born one city away.

So my freedom isn't from self. My freedom is from external inputs that shape me into who I was. And I didn't even know it then. So now I get to go launched out of that platform of self and create more self. Now I'm free to decide what will be stacked for the most part into the identity that continues to grow in life. Are you jing? Okay. So, we're talking about an identity. And remember, there's only two. Don't ever get confused in the middle. There is no compromise between the two. There might be movement from one to the other, but there's no compromise. So, we're talking about self, the world of I, the world that began in this moment when instantly we've seen Adam and Eve make a choice, then a decision, and then implement it, and then space was created.

And look what was born. They could see before. So we know this is not the set of eyes that we're thinking because right here their eyes of both were opened. What eyes? The eyes of self away from God. The only eyes they had before were the eyes of their father. They looked with relationship in union with God. Their vision, their worldview was of the holy one until this choice when another set of eyes were open and the birth of self began. And you'll notice, by the way, just as a little funny thing, they swed fig leaves. The very first act of religion I think took place right there because the they took an action into their own hands to cover their shame.

And then you can read further. You should go read it. Read it again from this perspective. A year from now someone will be in front of you and say something else and you go read it again from that. And God will reveal to you layers in depth that you just can't comprehend in a literal linear reading of a word that has dimension and depth. universes and hyperlinks. Okay. So, all that to say, you might have to drive. We're malfunctioned. Do I? Maybe I'm on a Let me go to Oh, you moved the window. Okay, perfect. I got it. Here we go. So, let's talk about a new way of seeing. So, something unique happened to me and I want to lay this out, but I want to make something very clear.

You're the apple of God's eye. And you are. And you are. And you are. And you are. Like, hear me. You might not know it. And that's okay. Faith comes from hearing. Let me tell you how I know that you're the apple of God's eye because he's showed me that I was the apple of his eye. I know that I am the most special thing that exists in the eyes of God. And in that knowing of it, remember no scarcity of what? God's love. I am aware that he gives you the same thing. I'm also aware you might not know it. You know why? Because I had no clue. I had zero clue. And and Paul was sensitive about something that happened to him. It was on that road to Damascus when he was scooped into a dimension and reality and seen things that are unspeakable with men.

This is more than a vision, okay? This is a reality that Paul experienced that transformed him in a moment, not days, not years. Many others stretched out. We've seen the transformation of Israel over basically the beginning of time and beyond. I mean, but they never got it, right? Centuries. And then we see Paul scooped up off a dirt road. God Almighty, the Lord Jesus says, "Why do you persecute me?" And Paul went on a journey that we know was probably about three days. But in that first moment, the three days was just an extension of things to come. But in that moment, he was transformed in the very moment when he said, "Who are you, Lord?"

Because he knew who it was. He just didn't know how to articulate. But he knew his God had transformed him in that very moment of revelation. Okay? But you'll notice that Paul doesn't talk about the experience. In fact, he waits like 14 years and then he speaks about it like it's apart from himself. I knew a man 14 years ago who went to the third heaven. Okay. So, I'm only saying all that not to be cryptic, but can tell you like the experience that I had with God was a 60inute encounter. My wife can vouch. My words will vouch because they're true. I was a guy sculpted by life, a gambler to the oomph degree and had been since I was 16 years old because of scarcity.

And I wasn't a small gambler. I was a 10 grand a hand. I was a win a h 100,000 and go give it away in a week. I was a lost and desensitized to currency. Okay. I was a guy. Let's take a drink, Marilyn. I I was a guy who took risk and put it somewhere that I could not trust and hope for an outcome. That was my life. And listen, it was a big secret. And that secret started doing things to me because I knew that I was disappointing people that didn't know I was disappointing them

because now what do I have to do when money that I shouldn't have lost is lost? What's born out of that one choice is lies. And then out of lies something else is born. Something I already had all along but it becomes more pronounced. It's another layer of shame. And then out of shame comes guilt. And all of this accumulation of all these moments start turning into death. So when you read in the Bible that the wages of sin are death, you've got to understand like we come into our carnival and like you just died. No, no. Death is its own creature that starts growing in you and then it becomes you. And it's a it's a transformation of death. It's the counterfeit of Christ in you that starts transforming you in the light.

It is death is the darkness that starts absorbing all of your hope, all of your authenticity, and it takes the fake you anyway, the you that thinks you are, and it takes that and turns it into even more nastiness. So, and then you start what happens? What comes manifesting? Look at the bad tree and the good tree. What does the bad tree produce? Bad fruit. So see sin is just the very ending of what blossoms on the end of the bow and the branch and the twig. Now on the good side in this other identity we got the same tree in a different way. Right? So you're the tree, I'm the tree. What kind are we? Right? Only you know and only you know what side of the orchard you're you're moving into because choice is not one choice.

It's a daily choice. It's not just a daily choice. It's a moment by moment choice. Jesus would prefer that it becomes one long moment of your whole vapor of a life here abiding in him. Joshua says, "Choose you this day." Do you know where Joshua was standing? I'm just going to go down one quick little bout. So here's Joshua. So this is the Bible is not just geography. It is all that is real people, real lives, real story. That's how magnificent God is. And at the same time, the Bible is soul geography. Okay? Because look, they're standing in a place called Sheckchum. Sheckchum uh like the valley of decision. It really means shoulder. It's your it's the space of a burden.

What are you going to put on your back and carry? Okay. So, he's standing in Sheckchham. There's a mount over here called Mount Garazim. There's a mount over here called Mount Ebal. And you'll see all this explain. This is he sends the tribes and the tribes splits them up. This is the mount of blessing and they holler blessings and curse and they holler curse. Joshua later on comes to the place he's standing now in the valley of decision where I'm going to choose. Am I going to put blessings upon me? I'm going to put curses upon me. And he says choose you this day whom you will serve. Are you going to serve blessing or curse? Because not only do you receive both, you give both.

So it's a really big profound hyperlink. What are you putting on you? Okay. So remember the valley of Sheckch. Remember that place Joshua speaks at because we're going to move into this place here as we as we move to right here. So identity now remember we've just left the garden. We've seen the things we're coming into our lives today and all of humanity that's followed us through. This is choice. This is choice. This is choice. So, we're going back to a time now that we all talk about of the coming of our Messiah, the leaving of our Messiah, and the coming of the Holy Spirit. Okay? Grace and truth. So, what's grace and truth? Two words, grace and truth.

They are the full composition. So, should you choose of your new identity. You know why? Because that's Jesus. He's that. You know how we know? Because right here somewhere here, I can move. There it goes. We have a verse that says Romans 5:20-21. Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded also, so that as sin reigned in death. Now watch this. Identity self says sin that's just the fruit of self reigned in death. The wages of sin are death. This identity grace also might reign through righteousness...