The Hidden Truth About “Christ in You” That Few Preach | E.W. Kenyon Teachings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSQ6plFNdoM
E.W. Kenyon teachings reveal why one of the greatest revelations in Scripture has been reduced to a vague phrase instead of a lived reality, and how that loss has kept believers separated in practice from the power already within them. This message sets the stage for a shift in identity, showing why understanding this hidden truth changes how you see yourself, how you pray, and how you live from the inside out.
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There's a phrase in scripture that most Christians have read dozens of times,
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but never truly understood. It's a mystery that Paul called the greatest revelation ever given to the church. And
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yet, after 2,000 years, most believers still treat it as a nice metaphor instead of a supernatural reality that
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changes everything about who you are and what you can do. That phrase is Christ in you, the hope of glory. And what it
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actually means, what it reveals about your nature as a born again believer is so radical, so transformative that if you truly grasped it, you would never
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live in defeat again. You would never question your authority again. You would never accept the limitations that religion has placed on you. Because once
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you understand what happened when Christ came to live in you, once you see the union that took place, once you comprehend that you are not just
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forgiven and going to heaven, but that you have become one spirit with Christ himself, everything changes. This is not
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just deeper theology. This is the foundation of your identity. This is why Paul could say in Galatians 2:20, "I am
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crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in
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me. He's not speaking poetically. He's declaring a spiritual reality. He's saying that the person he was before
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salvation died. And the person who lives now is indwelt by Christ to the degree that his very life is Christ's life
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flowing through him. And that's not just Paul's experience. That's every believer's reality. Christ in you is not Christ with you. Not Christ helping you,
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not Christ blessing you from heaven. It's Christ actually living in you,
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united with your spirit, making you a partaker of his divine nature according to second Peter 1:4. Today, we're going
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to uncover what most preachers never teach about Christ in you. We're going to show you exactly what happened when
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you were born again, what it means that Christ lives in you, and how this truth transforms the way you think, pray, and
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live. We're going to expose why this revelation has been lost in the modern church. And we're going to give you the
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biblical understanding that will establish you in who you truly are so that you can walk in the fullness of
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what Christ purchased for you. This is the mystery hidden for ages but now revealed. And once you see it, you'll
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never be the same. Let's start with the foundational verse. Colossians 1:26-27 says, "Even the mystery which hath been
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hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints, to
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whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in
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you, the hope of glory." Notice Paul calls this a mystery. Something that was
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hidden but is now revealed. Something so glorious, so rich that it was beyond human understanding until God chose to make it known. And what is this mystery?
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Christ in you. Not Christ for you. Not Christ above you. Christ in you. But what does that actually mean? Most
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Christians think it means Jesus is with them spiritually. That he's present in their lives. that he guides and helps
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them. And while that's true, it's not the fullness of what scripture is revealing. Christ in you means that when
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you were born again, Christ came to live in your spirit. Not metaphorically.
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Actually, your spirit which was dead in trespasses and sins according to Ephesians 2:1 was made alive with
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Christ's life. You became one spirit with him according to 1 Corinthians 6:17 which says, "But he that is joined unto
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the Lord is one spirit." One spirit, not two spirits in fellowship. One spirit,
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your spirit and Christ's spirit, united in a way that cannot be separated. Ew Kenyon understood this truth with
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stunning clarity. He wrote, "The new birth is not simply forgiveness of sins.
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It's not merely a fresh start. The new birth is the actual impartation of God's nature into your spirit. Christ comes to live in you. His life becomes your life.
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His nature becomes your nature. You are not just a saved sinner. You are a new creation with the very life of God
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flowing through your spirit. And until you understand this, until this becomes revelation and not just information, you
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will continue to live far below what God intended for you. That's the key. Most Christians understand forgiveness. They
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understand that Jesus died for their sins and that they're going to heaven,
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but they don't understand what happened to them at salvation. They don't realize that they were recreated, that they received a new nature, that Christ's
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life was literally imparted to their spirit. And because they don't understand this, they live like saved
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sinners instead of new creations. They live in defeat instead of victory. They beg God for what they already possess,
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and they accept spiritual poverty when they've been made partakers of divine nature. Now, let's look at what scripture actually says about this union. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says,
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"Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become
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new." Notice it doesn't say you're an improved version of your old self. It says you're a new creation. The Greek word for new here means brand new in
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kind, not just new in time. You're not the old you trying to be better. You're a completely new creation with a new nature, a new spirit, and a new life.
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And that new life is Christ's life dwelling in you. This is why Galatians 2:20 is so critical. Paul says, "I am
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crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live yet not I, but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the
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flesh. I live by the faith of the son of God who loved me and gave himself for
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me." Paul is saying that his old nature died with Christ on the cross. But the person who lives now is not just
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forgiven Paul. It's Paul indwelt by Christ living Christ's life through faith. The life he's living in his
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physical body is actually Christ's life flowing through his spirit and manifesting in his daily experience.
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Think about what this means. When Christ lives in you, you have access to his wisdom, his strength, his love, his
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faith, his power, not as something external that you're asking for, but as something internal that you're drawing
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from. Because Christ is not separate from you. He's one with your spirit. And when you learn to live from your spirit
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instead of your flesh, when you learn to draw on the life of Christ within you,
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everything changes. You're no longer living in your own strength. You're living in his strength that's flowing
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through you. Ew. Kenyan said, "The greatest tragedy in the modern church is believers who are spiritual billionaires
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living like beggars. They have Christ in them. They have access to all of his resources. They have his life, his
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nature, his ability dwelling in their spirit. But they live in poverty,
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defeat, and weakness because they don't know what they have. They don't understand that Christ in them is not just a promise for the future. It's a
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present reality that changes everything about who they are and what they can do. That's exactly what's happening.
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Believers are begging God to give them what he's already placed in them.
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They're asking for strength when Christ's strength is in their spirit. They're asking for wisdom when Christ,
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who is the wisdom of God according to 1 Corinthians 1:30, lives in them. They're asking for love when God's love has been
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shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Ghost according to Romans 5:5. And God's not denying their requests. He's saying,
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"I've already given you everything you need. Christ is in you. Learn to draw from what you already possess." Now
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let's look at what this union with Christ actually produces. First, it produces a new nature. Second Peter 1:4
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says we are partakers of the divine nature. Not partially divine, not sort of like God, partakers of his nature,
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which means we have his character, his love, his righteousness dwelling in our spirit. When you were born again, you
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didn't just get forgiveness. You got a new nature. The old sin nature that dominated you was replaced with Christ's nature. And that nature is righteous,
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holy, and powerful. This is why First John 3:9 says, "Whosoever is born of God
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does not commit sin, for his seed remainth in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God." John is
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talking about your new nature, your spirit. Your spirit which has been born of God cannot sin. It has God's seed,
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God's nature, and it's incapable of sin.
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Now, your flesh can still sin. Your mind can still be influenced by the enemy.
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But your spirit, the core of who you are, is righteous and cannot sin because it has Christ's nature. Second, this
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union with Christ produces power. Acts 1:8 says, "But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon
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you." That power is not external, it's internal. Christ in you is the source of supernatural power. Romans 8:11 says,
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"But if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead
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shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you." The same power that raised Jesus from the
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dead dwells in you. That's resurrection power. And it's available to quicken, to make alive, to energize your physical
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body when you draw on the life of Christ within you. Third, this union produces wisdom. Colossians 2:3 says that in
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Christ are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. And if Christ is in you, then all the treasures of wisdom
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and knowledge are accessible to you. Not because you're smart, but because Christ, who is wisdom, lives in your
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spirit. And when you need wisdom, you don't beg God to give you something you don't have. You draw on the wisdom of Christ that's already in you. Ew. Kenyon
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wrote, "Most believers live like orphans when they're actually sons. They live like they're separated from God when
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Christ lives in them. They beg for wisdom when wisdom dwells in their spirit. They plead for strength when strength is flowing from Christ within
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them. And the reason they live this way is because they've never been taught what Christ in you actually means.
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They've never been shown that salvation is not just forgiveness. It's union. Union with Christ. One spirit, one life,
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one nature. So, how do you live from this reality? How do you access the life of Christ within you instead of just knowing about it intellectually?
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First, you have to renew your mind to who you are. Romans 12:2 says, "And be not conformed to this world, but be ye
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transformed by the renewing of your mind." Your mind doesn't automatically know what your spirit possesses. You
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have to renew your mind through the word. You have to meditate on scriptures that reveal your identity. You have to
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declare who you are in Christ until your mind believes what your spirit already knows. For example, you meditate on
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Galatians 2:20. You declare, "I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me." You think about what that means.
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You picture Christ living in your spirit, flowing through you, empowering you. And over time, your mind is
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renewed. You begin to think like a person indwelt by Christ instead of like a person struggling in their own strength. Second, you learn to draw from
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your spirit instead of your flesh. Your flesh, your natural self, has no power.
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It's limited, weak, and subject to circumstances. But your spirit, where Christ lives, has unlimited access to
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his resources. So when you face a challenge, you don't respond from your flesh. You respond from your spirit. You quiet your mind, focus on Christ in you,
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and draw strength from his life flowing through you. This is what Paul meant when he said in 2 Corinthians 4:16, "But
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though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. The inward man, your spirit is constantly
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being renewed with Christ's life. And when you learn to draw from that life,
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you experience strength that's not your own. Third, you live in the consciousness of Christ's presence within you. Most Christians go through
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their day never thinking about the fact that Christ lives in them. But when you become conscious of his presence, when you acknowledge him throughout your day,
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when you talk to him as the one who dwells in your spirit, everything changes. You're not alone. You're not in
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your own strength. Christ is in you. And when you live in that awareness, his life flows through you naturally. EW
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Kenyon said, "The Christian life is not you trying to live for Christ. It's Christ living through you." And the
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moment you understand that, the moment you stop trying and start yielding, the life of Christ begins to manifest in
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your daily experience. You speak his words. You demonstrate his love. You operate in his power. Not because you're
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trying harder, but because you're finally letting Christ be Christ in you.
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Now, let's address why this truth is rarely preached. Because if believers truly understood that Christ lives in them, that they're one spirit with him,
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that they have his nature and his power dwelling in their spirit, they would stop being dependent on religious
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systems. They would stop looking to men for what Christ has already given them.
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They would stop accepting defeat as normal. And they would start walking in the authority and power that belongs to them as new creations indwelt by Christ.
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And that threatens religious structures that thrive on keeping believers in spiritual immaturity. But God never intended for you to live as a spiritual
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beggar. He intended for you to know who you are, to understand what you possess,
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to walk in the reality that Christ lives in you. Not someday, not when you get to heaven. Right now in your spirit as a
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present, powerful, transformative reality. So here's the question. Are you living like Christ is in you? Are you
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drawing from his life? Are you conscious of his presence in your spirit? Or are you still living like you're separated from God, begging for what you already
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possess because Christ is in you. That's not a hope. That's not a promise for the future. That's a present reality. And
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when you begin to live from that reality, when you draw on his life, when you yield to his nature, you'll experience the Christian life the way
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God intended. Not struggling, but overflowing. Not defeated, but victorious. Not weak, but strong in the
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power of his might. But there's one more dimension of this truth that most Christians never discover. Because knowing that Christ is in you is
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powerful. But there's something even more transformative.
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There's an authority, a dominion, a supernatural ability to rule over circumstances that flows from understanding not just who lives in you,
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but what that makes you capable of doing. Most believers live under their circumstances instead of over them. They
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accept defeat, sickness, lack, and chaos as normal when God intended for them to rule. And in the next video, we're going
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to expose why most Christians never step into this dominion. We're going to show you the biblical pattern for exercising
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authority over every circumstance in your life. And we're going to give you the keys that will shift you from being
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controlled by your situation to controlling your situation through the power of Christ in you. Because you were
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not created to be dominated. You were created to dominate. And it's time you learned
