P90X+ Day 15 - Kenpo Cardio X+ and Ab Ripper X

That was a sweatfest! Punching, kicking, jumping, bouncing, lunging! What a fun fun cardio workout. And it flat wears you out. Even the breaks are full of action! And again...noooooooo Wesley Idol. There is no way to dog it on this one. Good workout. And yes, I busted out the Ab RipperX+ right after....can't loose out on that workout!

Last nights LifeGroup was amazing. As mentioned in my last post, the title of the lesson was:
"Is the Old Man Dead? Or.....does He Just Smell Bad?"

God gives new revelation, and with this it is a break from a lot of traditional teaching that many of us grew up with. Not only has the world shown us that we will deal with our issues and always deal with them, but so too have many churches taught the same. That we must deal with our sins, deal with who we were before we were saved...fight that battle of sin. ----What a load to carry!

Jesus was crucified 2009 years ago....Galations 2:20 says we were crucified with him. That means the dead spirit we were born into was exactly that....dead. The gift of salvation is available because of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus....He doesn't die again to give us another gift! Its up to us when we choose it....but we are choosing a gift that has always been available to us.

Romans 6:5-9 (NKJV) - For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, ⁶ knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. ⁷ For he who has died has been freed from sin. ⁸ Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, ⁹ knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. ¹⁰ For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

"our old man was crucified with Him"!!! - If we were crucified with Christ and through crucifixion he died, our old man can't die anymore either....LET HIM STAY DEAD!!!

Compare that to the weight you've lost during this lifestyle change of getting fit. In one year I've lost 45 pounds! I can tell you...when I pick up a 45 pound weight and am reminded of the amount I was carrying around, I guarantee that I am not going back to that....that is something that is dead to me. But....I can't, through my own will, succeed. I need help. ---- To simplify, We can not live righteously through the flesh....it is a guarantee that if we try, we will fail. Only through our new spirit can we live a righteous life. We will find that drive through our FAITH! And faith is not based on "feeling"....its not an emotion! It is based on a RECKONING!

ROMANS 6:11 (NKJV) - Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

RECKON means - To account for. Actively believing what you know. To substantiate by faith what is reality.

The key to RECKONING is REVELATION.....First you "KNOW" - Then you "RECKON"

So...when we RECKON our death, we RECKON our LIFE!

We come back to the question...."Are we sinners saved by grace, or saints who sometimes sin?"

If we still see our identity (WHO WE REALLY ARE) as a sinner, then we will be as we think we are.

BUT....if we see ourselves as a new creation, our life EXCHANGED at the cross, with a new nature, genetically new, with a new inner drive toward holiness, we will be as we RECKON we are. Stop carrying around that stinky old carcass and LIVE......Live the Exchanged Life!

P90X+ Day 14 - Shoulders & Arms and Ab RipperX

Tonight....Good ole Shoulders & Arms with Ab RipperX. A great resistance workout. We are on such a busy schedule lately that we've been having to squeeze in working out whenever we can. That has to change. Yesterday we had Tommy's birthday party from which we didn't get home until pretty late in the evening. Tonight....workout, go eat, then gonna work out the new lesson for tomorrow's LifeGroup....Good stuff.

Teaser...the title of the lesson is:

"Is the Old Man Dead or Does He Just Smell Bad!"

Galations 2:20 (NKJV) - I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the [life] which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Note the passage in Galations says...."have been crucified"...."no longer I who live"....These are past tense statements. So why have we always been taught to crucifiy ourselves to sin over and over and over....why do we fight the battle with sin constantly? The battle has been won....Jesus became sin so we would no longer be a slave to it.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV) - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

"the old has gone".....let the old stay gone!

P90X+ Day 13 - PLYO

Wow....my legs feel like lead weights.....and they did right after I started! It has been too long since doing PLYO that I'm ripping myself for waiting. Demi...I'm still torn between which is harder...Plyo or Intervals. Maybe someone can do them back to back and see which is harder....ugh.

For anyone out there looking to join in on the fun and would consider having a not so random coach, please sign up under myself, Christina or KENEWAYNE. Its something that I can tell you we all believe in and would love to assist you guys or your friends in any way we can. We've all been through it and with that know what it takes to stay motivated and on track. If you consider, once you go to our site, hit "JOIN" at the top and simply join the Beachbody Community....its free and allows you to purchase the supplements and any of the Beachbody workouts through us. This is a program through Beachbody that we have committed to. Also, if you are interested in becoming a Beachbody Coach, you can also sign up under one of us. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Had an awesome, awesome day at church today....wow what a sermon on defeating our giants and seeing the world in 4 dimensional thinking. When we are facing strife, we need to first remember what God's word says and remember His promises. Remember, Goliath and the Philistines did not and because of that he was defeated by David through the strength of God!

Very awesome!