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Welcome to Gospel Truth with Andrew Wommack. Celebrating the good news of Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, God with us.

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There is no discord between us and God. The war, God's wrath against mankind is over.

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We here at Andrew Wommack Ministries want to wish you a very merry Christmas and a blessed new year.

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Welcome to our Friday's broadcast of the Gospel Truth. Today I'm continuing a series. Actually, I said that I was going to end this series today and I'm not sure I will. So wait until the end of this program and see if I get far enough. But anyway, I'm drawing to the end of this teaching and I encourage you to please get this book. The war is over. This is just a powerful teaching. It's one of my favorite things to teach on about how that we are now reconciled unto God. God is not imputing our sin unto us. He's not upset, he's not angry. He's not even in a bad mood. God loves us because he made us in the spirit realm to be a lovely person. Now, your flesh may not be. Your mental and emotional part may not be. But in the spirit, you are identical to Jesus. And the Bible says that God is a spirit and you have to relate to him based on who you are in your new born again spirit, not based on your flesh. That's what this book is about. So we're offering the book. We're offering a little booklet that is a brief introduction to this teaching. And then I have cds, DVDs, a USB and a study guide. And we're also offering this Heart of Christmas. It's a video of our production that we do every Christmas. And it is phenomenal. I played three days of that last week and you would really be blessed to get that. So let me just try and get into some of these. I've said so many important things. If you haven't gotten this teaching, please get it. Because I've been saying things that most people don't know. You know, I don't offer my product because of the financial benefit. I offer my product because of the benefit it is to you. And that's the reason I say, just give whatever you can. If you can't give anything, we'll send you the little booklet. I'm just trying to get these truths out to people. That's my motivation. It's not just for me. That's the reason we say, just give what you can. So in Romans, chapter six, in verse one, he says, what shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin? That grace may abound Verse two says, God forbid. Did you know in the Greek, that's as strong a rejection of what was said and as you can have without using profanity. This is just an absolute unqualified negative. No, absolutely not. And here's the reason that we don't live in sin. It says, how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? Again, I've made this point a couple of times when wh. When the word sin is used in the Book of Romans, all except two instances in this entire letter, it's not referring to what you do, the action of sin, it's referring to your sin nature. And so when it says that we are dead to sin, this isn't saying that it's impossible for us to act and do something wrong. It's obvious Christians can still do things that are wrong. They can still get into the flesh, they can still get angry, they still sin. This isn't saying that a Christian can't sin, but it's saying that a Christian is dead to that sin nature that compelled us to sin. And somebody's thinking, well, if I'm dead to that sin nature, if that sin nature is not there, well, then why do I still sin? Well, it's because we are similar to a computer. And you know what a computer, you can put information in there and software and tell it how to run. And. And did you know it's going to continue to run that way until it's reprogrammed? Your old sinful nature programmed your mind and your emotions how to be carnal, how to be selfish, how to put yourself ahead of other people, how to lust, how to operate in fear. You've been taught all of these things. Did you know that kids, honestly, they don't know how to do these things until they get taught how to do it. They learn by watching adults and seeing all of the weird things that they do. But you were programmed by that sinful nature to do all of these selfish, ungodly things. And now your spirit is gone. The old man is gone, but the computer is left behind. And until you reprogram that computer, you will continue to operate the same way the. Did you know I was raised in Texas? That's the reason I speak with a Texan accent and stuff like this. And that was before I was born again. When I got born again, I didn't immediately start speaking proper English. As a matter of fact, I don't think I've ever spoken proper English. I have people make fun of me all of the time. What I'm saying is I was changed on the inside. But that didn't change the way I talk. It didn't change my memories, it changed. It didn't instantly change my thinking. Now there was an instant change when I got born again. I got born again when I was 8 years old. I was in the third grade and I got born again on a Sunday morning after I heard a message from our Baptist pastor. I went home and asked my dad and my dad explained salvation to me and I prayed and I remember just peace. I had been under conviction and all of a sudden when I prayed, I just had a supernatural peace come over me. And the very next day in the third grade and my friends were telling some off color joke that in the past I might have laughed at. You know, it was a third grader, it wasn't so bad. But nonetheless I just, I was changed. And they could tell something had happened. They said, what happened to you? What's, what are you doing? And I told them I got saved yesterday and I had my friends make fun of me in the third grade for being a Christian. So there was a change. But I didn't automatically reflect that in everything I did. When I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit ten years later is when I began to start really seeing a change and I started getting into the word. But I didn't automatically see everything that had happened in my spirit reflected in my body. I had to renew my mind. And this is exactly What Romans chapter 12, verse 2 says. After verse 1 talks about being a living sacrifice. Verse 2 says, don't be conformed to this, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. You get changed in your spirit, but it doesn't show on the outside. You don't get transformed until you renew your mind is what it says. And so this is saying, how shall we that are dead to sin? We are dead to that sin nature. The sin nature is dead. It is gone. And again, some people are thinking, well, I can't see that in my life. That's because you hadn't reprogrammed your brain. You are going to act the way that you think. Proverbs 23:7. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Your life is going the direction of your dominant thought. Now, if you've been born again, your ENS enters your spirit, your spirit man has been changed. The old sinful nature is gone, but you'll continue to operate in selfishness and pride. And fear and all of these things until you change yourself. By the way, you think. You know, when I was a kid, I don't know if everybody had this problem, but I was, I'm old enough to remember this that I would just. I would be excited about going out to play or do something else. And getting dressed wasn't on the top of my priority. I wasn't a fashion person. So anyway, I would just button my shirt and leave. And I had a problem. I seemed like I always buttoned my shirt wrong. And I'm old enough to remember my dad sitting me down and he said, you are going to learn how to button your shirt. Because I would always get the wrong button in the wrong hole and it would be out of line. So my point in bringing that up is to say that it isn't just natural for me to button my shirt because I remember when I had to put effort in it to button my shirt and get everything lined up correctly. So it's not my nature to button my shirt. It's an acquired trait. I taught myself how to do it. And yet did you know, I have done it so many times that I buttoned my shirt. Nobody else dressed me, so I had to have buttoned this shirt. And yet I don't even remember doing it. It's just like it's my nature. It just happened automatically. The reason I say this is some of you think, oh, it's just my nature to sin. No, it's an acquired trait. You had a sinful nature that used to compel you to sin. But now that sinful nature is gone and the only reason you're still doing it and you think it's just your nature to do it is because you were programmed that way and, and you haven't reprogrammed yourself. It's not a sinful nature that is compelling you to sin anymore. If you've truly been born again, the old man is gone. And this is what it goes on to say just a number of times here in the sixth chapter, it says in verse three, know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death. And that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. So this is saying that we were buried with him by baptism into death. This isn't talking about physical death. I've been water baptized. This isn't actually talking about water baptism. This is talking about the baptism by the by Jesus into or by the Holy Spirit into Jesus over in 1 Corinthians, chapter 12. This is talking about the baptism into the body of Christ, not water baptism. And through that baptism I died to this old man is what it's talking about. And then in verse 5 it says, for if we have been planted in the likeness of his death, which the previous verse says we have, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. And but verse 6 says knowing this, so see the terminology here. It says if we've been planted together in the likeness of his death, which verse four and five says we have, then we will be in the likeness of his resurrection. If we know this. In other words, the death to sin, when you get born again, that old sin nature died and it has been removed. That is not something you have to believe for it. It just automatically happens at salvation. But whether or not you walk in the resurrection power that was given to you is dependent upon you knowing something. So it says, you have to know this, that our old man is crucified. It didn't say that our old man should be crucified. Can be crucified, it is crucified. This old man talking about your sinful nature, not just your physical actions, but the sin nature. The sin nature is crucified with him. That the body of sin might be destroyed. That henceforth we should not serve sin. So notice there's three things listed here in this sixth verse. That your old man is crucified. That's past tense. It's a done deal. That the body of sin might be destroyed. Might be destroyed. That's not automatic. That's something that has to yet happen. That henceforth we should not serve sin. That's something that is available, but it doesn't happen automatically. So this is saying that when you got born again, your sinful nature is dead. It is crucified, it's gone. But the body of sin has to be destroyed. What's that talking about? Did you know when we die physically, it says In James chapter 2, verse, verse 26 it says as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. And so that's saying that it your spirit is the life giving part. And when it leaves your body, then you're dead. So but when your spirit leaves. Did you know once a person dies, their body for a period of time still looks the same. I actually had a friend of mine who was a orderly or I don't know exactly what his position was, but anyway he Worked in Parkland Hospital in Dallas. And he was doing an autopsy one time on a corpse. And so he got this corpse and pulled it out of one of those slabs and put it on this stretcher. And then he turned around to get his instruments. And when he turned back around, the corpse was sitting up, his eyes were open, and his arms were dangling at his side like this. And this guy said it scared him so bad, he nearly jumped out the 13th story window of Parkland Hospital. He went running down the hall asking for help. And some people came back in and they examined this corpse, and it was dead. But did you know, even after a person dies and their spirit is gone for a brief period of time, there could be electrical impulses that'll make their muscles contract. And this guy's muscles contracted and he sat up, but he was dead. He wasn't alive, but he looked like he was alive. And so my point is that once you die, your body doesn't instantly dissolve for a period of time. It's still there, and it can even look like it might be alive. Well, it's the same thing that once your old sinful nature is gone, it left behind a body. You know what that body was, the way you think, the wrong thinking, the wrong information that was put there by that sinful nature that you had. So your sinful nature is now gone, but it left behind a body. And that body of sin has to be destroyed. You have to change that old way of thinking. You have to get rid of thinking that it's all about me. I. I've got to protect myself and promote myself, not. The Bible says you humble yourself and God will be the one that promotes you. That's a different way of thinking than e every one of us was programmed. And so your old man is gone, but it left behind a body, the wrong way of thinking. And that has to be changed. And when you change the way you think, then you henceforth will not serve sin. You renew your mind. And as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. So you may have been, you know, a drunkard before. When you get born again, that nature that made you dependent upon that is gone. But now you've got a body that's left behind the way you think. And some people have just been, you know, drunk for so long, they use that when they get in trouble, they just go drown their sorrows in it. They try and numb themself to the problem. And it may take a while for you to destroy that way of thinking. Thinking by renewing your mind. But when you get your mind renewed and start turning to the Lord instead of turning to the bottle or turning to the drugs or whatever it is, then you will quit serving sin. And it goes on to say in the next verse, he that is dead is freed from sin. Notice the terminology. It says you are freed. F R E E D. It didn't say you are free. When you get born again, your sinful nature is dead. It's gone and you have been freed. But that doesn't mean you're free. It depends on whether or not you destroy the thinking that was left behind by that old man. And if you continue to think the way that you did before you got born again, you'll continue to have the same problems and the same things dominating you. But when you got born again, if you died when with Christ of that old sinful nature, you have been freed. But that doesn't mean you're free. You know, I used to go into prisons and minister to people all the time and I would stand at their cell and they would be behind this, these bars and I would be sharing with them and I, I would use these verses and tell them it's just like if I came in here and I said, you are freed, you have been freed. And if I somehow or another had the ability to do that, I could unlock the jail cell and then walk out. But did you know they would have to believe and get up and put their shoes on and get up and walk out. But if they didn't believe that what I said was true, they could stay in that jail cell and they could think that even though the door is now open and unlocked, if I go out here they're going to arrest me for trying to escape. I don't believe that I was really freed. And they could still live in bondage, they could still live as a prisoner even though they had been freed. Just because you are freed doesn't mean you're free. Did you know that during the Civil War President Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation and he freed all of the slaves? But many of the slave owners didn't let their slaves know about this. They didn't have, you know, television, they didn't have the Internet and they didn't have phones and they didn't get information the way we do. And many of tho there are actual accounts of people that went months and months after the Emancipation Proclamation before they actually experienced that freedom. They were freed, but they weren't free. As a matter of fact, you know, this whole anniversary of Juneteenth is what they call it June 19th. That's because people were freed from way before that. But people in Texas kept that information from the slaves, and the slaves didn't actually experience the freedom until June 19th. And that's what they celebrate when they have that anniversary. So just because you have been freed doesn't mean you are walking in that freedom. And this is saying that if you are dead to sin, which all of these previous verses said you were, well then you have been freed. But you aren't going to be free until you renew your mind. Your the nature that was in sin, that was incapable of doing anything right because it was a sinful nature. That nature is taken out of you and you now have a new born again nature. If you made Jesus your Lord, if you became a new creation like 2 Corinthians 5:17, you are now a new person. But you've got to renew your mind, get rid of that body that this sin nature left behind, and kill those negative thoughts and then start walking in freedom. In verse 8 it says, now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. And look at this. It didn't just say, we believe that we shall also live with him, period. It goes on to say, knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth, no more death hath no more dominion over him. Again, this is conditional. We are dead with Christ, but we won't walk in that freedom until we know that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more. In other words, some people will teach that you got to die to your sin nature every day. No, you died to that sin nature when you got born again. That sin nature is now dead and and removed and gone. You are not schizophrenic. You do not have a new born again nature and an old nature at the same time. You if you are born again, your heart has been changed. Old things passed away. Behold, all things have become new. Your spirit man is identical to Jesus. 1 John, chapter 4, verse 17. But you have to know that that's something that happened one time. Those who preach that every day you got to get up and die to your old sinful nature are wrong. It says here that Christ being raised from the dead dieth, no more death hath no more dominion over, for in that he died, he died unto sin, but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise, that means in the same way that Jesus is doing this, you reckon yourselves also to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So you we Got to do things the way that Jesus did. Likewise, the way that he did it. Do you think Jesus gets up every morning and has to die over again? No. He died one time. He died unto sin one time and he's never going to die to it again. It was a one time deal. When you get born again, you died unto that old sinful nature one time. You do not have anything in you that compels you to live in sin. And somebody watching this is saying, well then why then do I, am I still sinning? Because you haven't renewed your mind. Your old sinful nature programmed this mind how to think and how to act. And as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7. You aren't going to see the resurrection and the life that's in your spirit, manifest in your actions until you change the way you think. And the old religious concept that nothing has changed. I'm just an old sinner saved by grace. When I die, I'll go to heaven, but other than that I'm just the same as I was before. If you think that way, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. And you may give token resistance to sin, but eventually you'll give in because after all you're an old sinner. But no, if you could ever see that I'm not an old sinner, I've been changed by grace. I'm a brand new person as Jesus is, so am I. That will become a self fulfilling prophecy. If that's what you focus on and if that's what you see yourself being, you will wind up reproducing that in your actions and you'll start living like Jesus. Man, that's awesome. So I am going to make this the end of this teaching again. I could just keep going on this for a long time, but today is going to be my last day to offer you this. I've got this book, a 200 plus page book. We're asking for a donation of any amount for the book. If you couldn't or wouldn't send anything, I've got this little booklet entitled Goodwill towards Men. It's an introduction to the war is over and we will send you this one free and postpaid. We ask for a donation of some amount for the other. We ask for you to do what you can. I couldn't give things away if it wasn't for my partners who enabled me to do it. So give what you can, but we want you to have this teaching and we also have a package deal where you can get this video of the Heart of Christmas which I played for three days on my programs last week, so today's my last day. Listen to our announcer and then please call or write Today.