Brilliant Perspectives

What if nobody in the Godhead ever wanted the job of changing you? In the second half of Freedom from Legalism Part 1, Graham Cooke names the ultimate bait and switch: we tell the unsaved they can't earn salvation, then once they're saved we teach them grace plus rules. Reading Galatians 3 (“You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?”), he shows why the cross is the ultimate reinvention: your old nature went into the grave with Jesus, and you were raised a new man in Christ. Discover a Father who is in charge of your life, who gives righteousness as a gift and then just teaches you how to be new, because it is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
Key Scriptures:
+ Galatians 3:1-3. "You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?"
+ Galatians 5:1. "It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery."
+ Ephesians 4:15. "but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,"
+ Hebrews 7:23-24. "The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing, but Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently."
+ Romans 6:4. "Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life."
Want to explore more?
📚 Browse Graham Cooke's books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/
🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God's love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/
As always, thanks for listening!

What if there are no rules, only the law of love? Graham Cooke opens Freedom from Legalism with the Father's "powerful and holy determination to set every one of his children free from legalism," then walks us through Hebrews 6 to a God who "swore by himself" and bound Himself to us with "two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie." Discover why the New Covenant didn't "bolt on" to the old but came to "100% replace" it, why "a double portion is the smallest blessing that you can have," and why "you are the beloved of God and nothing's ever going to change that."
Key Scriptures:
+ Hebrews 6:13-14. "For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, 'I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you.'"
+ Hebrews 6:16. "For men swear by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute."
+ Hebrews 6:17-18. "In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us."
+ Hebrews 6:19-20. "This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek."
+ 1 Peter 2:9. "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light."
Want to explore more?
📚 Browse Graham Cooke's books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/
🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God's love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/
As always, thanks for listening!

What if the why question is the one question that makes us an invalid? In the final segment of New Man Theology, Graham Cooke shows us that growing up into all the fullness of Jesus requires "a continuous upgrading of our lens", and that right now every one of us is "having a lens change about something" with "no blame, shame or condemnation". Discover why the two best questions we can ever ask were both asked on the day of Pentecost, "what does this mean and what must I do", why "a lens change automatically aligns you with trust and with faith", and why worship itself is a lens change that creates "the same atmosphere that's around the throne". Graham closes by praying over us for a peace "where there's no fear, there's no apprehension" and asking God to "restore and renew our spiritual lens".
Key Scriptures:
+ Acts 2:12. "And they all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another, 'What does this mean?'"
+ Acts 2:37. "Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, 'Brethren, what shall we do?'"
+ Philippians 4:7. "And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."
+ Ephesians 4:23. "and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,"
+ Hebrews 8:13. "When He said, 'A new covenant,' He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear."
Want to explore more?
📚 Browse Graham Cooke's books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/
🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God's love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/
As always, thanks for listening!

What if the revival you've been praying for is already living on the inside of you? In this second part of Graham Cooke's session on lens changes, he traces the biggest one of all: Jesus moving us from a visitational relationship, where God "could come on you but he could lift off you," into a habitation of God by the Spirit, making us "a race of people never seen in the earth before." Discover why God "doesn't speak to your head, he speaks into your spirit," why "in a habitational culture you are the revival," and why prayer becomes "a delight" rather than "a discipline" once you "pray like a bride" and pray "with God, not towards him."
Key Scriptures:
+ 2 Corinthians 5:17. "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."
+ John 16:14-15. "He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you."
+ Hebrews 7:25. "Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them."
+ 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18. "Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."
+ Romans 8:26. "In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words."
Want to explore more?
📚 Browse Graham Cooke's books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/
🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God's love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/
As always, thanks for listening!

What if the call of God is designed to bring up every inadequacy in you, so that he can hand you a new lens for it? In this episode Graham Cooke opens Ephesians 1:18, the prayer that "the eyes of your heart, your spiritual lens, would be enlightened," and walks us into one of the best personal lens changes in the Bible: God telling a shepherd who is "slow of speech," "See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh." Discover why "you can't go into the enemy from a lower place than he is," why Moses had to practice his new voice all the way back down into Egypt, and why your identity rests on an alignment of three things: perception, mindset and language. Graham closes with the lens changes the church has already made, from the Reformation to the indwelling Holy Spirit, "a real person and an absolute genius," and the one certain aspects of the church still need to make "so that we're seeing things absolutely in line with the Godhead."
Key Scriptures:
+ Ephesians 1:18-19. "I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe."
+ Exodus 4:10. "Then Moses said to the LORD, 'Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.'"
+ Exodus 7:1. "Then the LORD said to Moses, 'See, I make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.'"
+ Exodus 7:16. "The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, 'Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness.'"
+ Ephesians 2:6. "and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,"
Want to explore more?
📚 Browse Graham Cooke's books and teachings: https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/
🌍 Discover the movement experiencing God's love every day: https://brilliantmovement.com/
As always, thanks for listening!