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So I question it again here. My question is WG wide CYA.
And that is where you think you are not in hazardous areas are not black. You are called.
Seriously though these days you are requested his identity shaping its life altering it
to turn. It's the affecting how you describe yourself reintroduce yourself how you perceive
yourself in mainstream pop psychology. They talk a lot about self-esteem or some image
or self-awareness got however liked to use the language of identity. So what is your
identity. Who do you think you are how you answer this question, and it's an important
question, because it's the one thing that changes everything. Because when you know
who you are, then you know what to do if you don't know who you are, then you don't know
what to do so. Howard you answer this question. This question. I am, I am blind, I am red.
I implore I'm young I I'm all night and smart stupid. I live in hated on single, unmarried
of the bars and desirable and undesirable unsuccessful on a pair I have about hopeless
you think you are how you see yourself as your identity altar and the fact your destiny.
It is a question we all ask ourselves usually unconsciously, but sometimes other people
answer the question for a authority when were little where you the first one we do baby
in the family. We limit our job. What were you like growing up these of money kid or
the chubby kid. We, the nerdy kid leave the smart kid who are you.
What names did other people give you what they did they do to you. Did your parents
have a big name were you with a good nickname or was it not a good. How do they see you
and subsequently, how did you see yourself in all three continue forward in life when
we hit the teen years that becomes even more complicated unit, J God have no idea who you
are.
All of a sudden you're in a new scroll your new relationships, new responsibilities no
authority on a sudden cloud become more important than ever in hair care and hair product and
how we appear and how we size one another out. I have my growth right yet have a child
that keeps asking the question that I keep seeing our family. One is plenty and Raven.
I want to be with her. My only outside looking in, it doesn't change it probably does let
your opportunity to completely reinvent yourself. You don't like your family and your brand-new
church in your community and those you know you and you get a fresh start release that's
what you think they make decisions about your wardrobe. I want to present myself make decisions
about her life. Now I go to church, why not go to church when I drink, why not drink widely
sleeping around, why not be sleeping around what degree while I pursue what life was like
and I feel, and who will I be in a you graduate, you have an identity crisis all over again
because now you're supposed to be about. You're not prepared for these responsibilities will
I get a job where, why worked while I do while I drive. When I get up body. How will I pay
my bills. Will I be in a relationship will I stay single.
And then one day you get your career, job, and then it consumes all of your identity.
And we save ourselves. When now I know who I am likely to succeed and thrive in this
vocational path that will define who I am. Maybe you get married you get married all
assigned identity gets conflicted because you so that you you may view one thing and
then I decided to post out that they really wanted of me and that we had a fight at a
crisis and we call that marriage.
And then you see that are not assigned identity. Charlie changes again. All of a sudden, it
shall become the center of the universe around with you operate. They determine what you
eat when you meet when you sleep. If you do, how much money is spent, palpitations, or
plan how life is organized, and all of a sudden your hobbies, your friendships your free floods
the things that identified them to find you. You wire their God. They are altered or affected,
and someone gives in order novice when they don't need you like me used to. They are starting
to move away from home. And he has some here season of life where suddenly her identity.
Once again he shaken to my where we want, what is the center of our world now that we
use a journal of our marriage together to make the money are being circulated for the
sake of the kids that are gone now. Why.
Identity is in crisis and conflict in payoffs all the time.
To talk about identity in the segment because I fear for us his disciples, we lose our identity.
When we lose our identity. You experience something that you caused this kind of stagnant
little stale. .
We need to embrace our God, you'll Holy Spirit inspired and led identity not be identity.
Other people, given ops and not the identity we believe about ourselves because we've bought
into the lies. What Satan has sent us some ask you another question. This question is
WPG FYI.
Good as God said you are finished, God save our as they say in Genesis one Genesis means
beginnings and that's where you find we find the beginning of our identities. It says here
that God said let us make man in our image, in our likeness is to stop there for a minute,
let possible resolution of the Trinity. They are right. You know God the father and the
son, Holy Spirit, three persons year, let us make man amid trying men and women in Iran,
H, after our likeness. What you see, that's identity, language, who are you got to survive.
I met you in my image and likeness. That's your identity. That's the identity statement
goes on to say of us in that identity. Let them rule over the fish of the sea and the
birth of the air over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that
move along the ground. So God created man in his own image in the image of God he created
them male and female he created them. God bless them and said to them, and the passage
continues. I love that lineð and God bless them.
So blessed.
Whose God. So you are is a few things in that passage, the gods is your first is your revelation
receiver. Your revelation receiver got a five oh eight father, son, Holy Spirit, here referred
to as all sort our making man in his image and likeness as if God is eternal nation is
eternal absent if the community am Lovin approbation in communication that when we understand identity
and limit near the charts in the community him while and affection. A healthy communication.
What else do we learn here we learn that God the father to sonð greater than communicating
with one another. However making is that their image and likeness. They make us as revelation
receivers because it says here. Any said today they speak a lot yet speechless through the
Scripture. The Holy Spirit speaks to us in our conscience gave a speech that's in the
wireless we know that it passed down generations. We are revelation receivers and what that
means is very good because you don't have to determine or decide who you are, you had
to figure out your identity just got Astarte chosen to reveal God 's kindness is chosen
to speak July. What this means is we don't need the speculation of philosophy or religion.
We need the revelation of God. We need to know God to tell us who he has really got
to tell us who we are. We need to know about who God is and you are in the Bible provides
both were also humbly honored in this message. What you see here. This is God. And then there's
lower creation. It talks about the beast of the field and the livestock in the fashion,
the birds of the air, and in between the lower creation and God is you is, mankind men and
women were below God were above the animals in anytime we try to establish her identity
and we don't understandably great results in tragedy is one of two things will happen.
Either we become people who think too much of ourselves, and we believe worked out like
they were almost divine spark of the divine is within us. The work can't be is where we
want to collect there were some part of it of my cosmic consciousness during each what
about alongside her daughter part of God or, you know, people will believe it of God in
themselves, and if not, if that's not sure that we'll reincarnated payoffs in Parma and
will escalate toward divinity at one bad thing happens if we don't understand were humbly
honored in what place we play where identity really is. Conversely, Arizona, last literary
sow confusion with it were nothing more than out of all the animals. Where does the bell
like the animals with bounces what we say right.
Humility. The router, which literally means to know your place is to know your places
under God, but about creation identity as you're not an animal drug dominion over them
as God 's image bear. You're also not God, you're creating me in your here because of
his divine design. What does God say about you and me. He says were made to mirror in
this passage is, as were made in his image and likeness. Those words are essentially
synonymous think of images in your life to get up this morning and you look at the mere.
Maybe you like to solve. Maybe you didn't. But it showed you a show on the radio you
and God. In making us in designing us in his image has chosen sin near himself what God
is saying is that even though his Spirit and we don't see him. He wants his attributes
to be visible on earth, and he was creation to know something about it. And so he made
us as mayors were made familiar in and see how it works. When we forgive others for reflecting
his rifle in his mercy to others not as generous and when were generous or reflecting his generosity
of its were made to reflect to near its echoes something of God 's attributes to this world.
So what that means is what you do, then goes the glory all of it to God, all that was very
loving and you want to thank you I love you, with God 's love, or that was very generous
of you. What thank you. I just gave you what God gave me when I was very truthful of you.
Thank you God is one that is tells the truth and I am happy to serve him know what that
allows us to Denver churches established courageous humility to be bald to be generous to be loving
to be truthful that exact conflict, this is holy and require whatever is in it and asking
not wireless. Make me look like, but rather how does this rightly or wrongly reflect God.
See the difference in Jesus got that right. He neared God all the time. If you see me,
you've seen the father that perfect near that sinless me. Unfortunately for us, so many
of our daily decisions about how to make me laugh.
The wrong question. How might they see God 's right question, how can I reflected image
in mere who God is writing this very moment. The last thing that God says about you were
a revelation receiver humbly honored me to mirror were blessed to be a blessing. This
is an important point. It says here after they were created by Sibley says God bless
them. This is astounding to me what it doesn't say is that they got anything yet. At this
point, Adam and even done anything because Blackstone they may earn nothing. What this
means is that God actively lobby, but the father 's affection so many of us. I believe
it is corrupted view of God that we need to make them less we need a manipulating them
in the letting us in caring for us to looking our way through weeks ago we talked about
witchcraft. Galatians five nineteen one of the thin we only become a authority is about
how is that manifests itself in a pagan. Why.
Also comes out in the Christian way like this. Why want God to do this minimalize under the
facts run to pry under to get up every morning and read the Bible, even the parts of the
Old Testament. I don't understand where five five, or if I get really serious or by come
forward. It doesn't matter if I try really is insincere whatever I can I do something
I can manipulate God. God must be that which I wanted to do its witchcraft. It's paying
as it sang out of the do those things to Islamic and guide them to never set a time like that
would be insane that is capricious and Mena. The guy cannot be moved all last week of ***
through force of manipulation, contrast that are the God who begins blasting hours of the
godlike sunglasses. People are from the gutters failed uprising called aloud out of mercy
and intent" of a heartbreak. Why far superior to mine in me is a father who adores his kids
and with any any form, so you're blessed when.
God blessed Adam and Eve, so they could be a blessing to their children and they could
be a blessing ultimately to the world Denver church. We are blessed of life. Whatever God
teaches you is so that you might teach others. Whatever God views you, so you might give
to others whatever God does for you is is so that you can learn to do that for others.
We did that today, even the remember election contribution here today. The last others today
in a great way because you know how God has blessed you another question we need to ask
ourselves WBS FYI, who does Satan say you are.
Due to Satan so you are what we see in Genesis one, where he just looked is a God South affiliate
is in it. We are, but that in Genesis three, we see Satan tell us who he thinks God is
Andrew Satan. Thanks we are going to say this lovely this one has been a lot recently and
the preaching in the various regions and in the Denver church. We believe in Satan, and
we believe in demons interviewed out you are a heartless, even a possible time explaining
the world you have an impossible time its way all the evil of the injustice of the charity
of alive only because all the darkness if there is not personal e-mail, I harming a
person 's.
It's the one thing that helps us plan everything. Satan created being under God redoubt against
them. The angel who was according to the Bible dissatisfied with their identity, their identity
created to serve under God. Anyone in a new identity, Sony rebel in his work on the world
begins here in Genesis three, at least as far as we have recorded history with our first
parents add many and shapes of single cells up any space and in now in the Bible saying
repeatedly, the latter is a deceiver has a killer. He will talk to you. He will never
tell you the truth, and everything is as will ruin you question it. We believe this is the
our ally in this. It doesn't need to be true to destroy.
My daughter right now you have cancer and die this Tuesday at three o'clock. Hopefully
that's not true, but if you will even add it will change your entire life. That's the
way a lot of work. Its power is ultimately contingent upon whether you will leave it
or not. That is why Jesus says elsewhere, we now don't know the truth and the truth
will what set them free. Satan is responsible previous live with you and are responsible
for our bone beef in his lot. Here's what Satan says drivers, parents, Genesis three
verse one.
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God made you said
you wanted to God really say you must not eat from any tree in the garden plan. Read
this the first thing. Satan does he questions what God says we know that. Can you believe
God can you trust and can you put your faith in him and just the Satan came our first managers
get economy and embarrass the destruction he has attended for your life to begin with
them trying around your confidence in the character of God, and the truthfulness of
Scripture potatoes on a verse five is forgotten when you eat of it your eyes will be open
and you will be like God knowing good and evil, they forget to say a thing shows up
Avenue have a way for you to be like God. Okay, obviously, as I mentioned, you see the
temptation of pride, but way back to Genesis one what the doctor say, God said let us make
man in our image, and it are what is second in our likeness in a single slot is likely
to take that over and identify the show your way to be God. And that's how I made them
like that I have studied Genesis seventy five, probably like many of you have an admitted
until recently this was identity, language bathhouse about their identity, our identity,
you bear my image and likeness of the things I've been around their faith in God, a relative
faith in the words God is speaking up in life event camping a pride thing of the labor unity
in the likeness of God, and evidently things good to hear the things you need to do. But
again, your identity is received. It's not a cage is something that is not something
you know the absence of alive air that is infected and affected everyone and everything
says was rooted in the initiative me being the issue of identity. I should have opened
up as map and said God made us in his likeness identity is received from God is not a key
BIOS that three students that.
Is imparted by God. It's not earned BIOS already blast. We just need to try to see if it's
amazing since you live what is Gulati telling you some regarding subway your identity could
be achieved by you rather than received from him a handout in a game that this this attack
that Satan makes me just tell you who you are not a two-pronged attack in his battle
plan. The first one is don't trust God. The second one is bullying my lives in your hand
up there that that is is not your combating paperwork by inches sort whenever he says
something about. Just got done because God what he says about you. Do it in masses is
it gets us thinking all wrong things about who we are about our identity. See you have
and I can last. I am blind, I am blank. I'm like you have that if you don't get that you
will not receive the spiritual while no one from God. It's like God is an absent God or
unconnected God, and we get messed up is what we do in real life. When we don't have fathers
who you need to hear those bridges. We all need a year who we are from God the father,
but very easy to read me that look out study out there to pray over and really letting
your head. You're thinking that I'm not that he'd said something else in the second sheet
that you have there is one to combat the whispers of Satan when he says that just got to undervalue.
I can fill you you're no good to fail in under the success you're worried for good reason,
because that's not little work you can whisper all that Anderson ways to combat that.
Our overall mistake going. Our identity is that we keep trying to earn it, are futile
efforts trying to earn our identity. It stagnates us and its concepts and prevents us from stepping
into our true identity slipping into our destiny and really living victoriously in Romans eight.
In the New Testament. One of my favorite chapters recently in the Bible. The last four months.
It's not just the ending passage rituals will be more than conquerors and that nothing can
overcome us, although that's a good part of this chapter, but it's these two verses and
says, for you do not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear for you received
the Spirit of Sun ship and by him we cry off our father, the Spirit himself testifies with
our spirit that we are God 's children. This is receiving language brothers and sisters.
It's received. We receive a spirit of science tickets to heaven from God, and by that we
cry out Allah father. Dad is a spiritual act that goes on to say this spirit testifying
a connecting with our AA and crying out to the truth that were God 's children, but my
identity as God 's I have an unit got half my son up to the spirit ofð what you wanted,
webmaster decries that out to God on our behalf later, Robinson said that United had a play
that later on the Spears gets right out. Yet that's my son. Anyway, yet that's my daughter
in your man. I have an victory, but later enrollment statement said that it's as well
have victory annually on progress. It's a glory but all begins with knowing who you
are.
All that identity is not in the passage we looked at showing the same passage in the
spirit crying out father if we forget who we are then then bad things happen and there
is a story to the gal in Philadelphia. I was there. This is lady that we've met while we
were evangelizing and several us were talking to her and dies. She was very open. We found
out that she was abused as a child growing up and she ran away from her home as a teenager
live this very difficult life, letting men do these very terrible things to her and I
remember one point in the conversation disaster. You know why you do these things while you
let other people do these things, and she possibly minute an issue came up with some
that still resonates in my mind for this that I have never forgotten it, and it was discussed
on the dirty girl, slightly dirty thing, any any gap that I could still hear that in and
at work. What happened was that when she was growing up she was abused whatever abuses
was her grandfather and her grandfather so that seed of this that had a demonic lie in
there to see what he would tower was this your dirty girls I make you do dirty things.
And for the rest of her life. Her identity was. I'm a dirty girl. I do dirty things.
It was crushing to hear her say that because you like your life could've taken such a different
track. In such a different course.
In your one of her so much. What wiser we believe in the God said, man, if you did this
get rid of that lie and stop believing that, of course, might we be on a Gleevec for us
that we would beyond begins with us remembering that I am faithful. I'm saved unjustified.
I'm a member on the short on confidence. I'm rewarded on blast and shows not a wholly unforgiving
unacquainted on CRM essay up so I minister. I live in gated and secure our poly I modes.
Why I have completed my God, that's power I'm dead to sin, I'm growling I played for
by Jesus Christ. I'm unified with other believers. I promised eternal life. I'm set for a young,
more than a conqueror, but not limited then I'm persevering unprotected. I'm born again.
I delivered and I'm victorious. I think that's what God would want us to believe that.
We hand is that you near the last question.
And that is who do you see you are today.
Does your Christians are. We have a dilemma.
In that dilemma is, were not mirroring Jesus when were not blessing others, and when were
messing up number trip enough in Satan comes in five thousand things like your fake your
hypocrite. Why even try. You're not really a son or daughter got you where you let me
know that you can't really trust God. It doesn't really love you is not a change that thing
in your life and him only when he says it is so easy maybe it's just me that maybe for
you to do so easy over Ava Satan is so easy to blame as I affiliated our focus on our
barriers and shortcomings identified no way are those wife latest acrylamide, our own
life academic voice of others. It's confusing because they tried to abuse our identity with
our activity, and when he does that. This is what happens. We live this life. This is
our battle. I do not understand what I do what I want to do. I do not do what I hate
I do know, and we beheld attention with the other conflict in our lives in Saint Kazan,
it is said, don't even try. You're never getting that Europe by things not possible that will
change. You'll never knew that you won't live up to that and we can reelect outside banging
my head against the wall. I thought my old self dive. It keeps reappearing without our
authority and identity on straight were rendered weak and ineffective. As Christians we can't
live up to the responsibilities God has called us to meter the blast to be humbly honored
to evangelize, serve to warship. The key is to remember activity does not change your
identity, your identity is in our identity is received. It's not achieve Adam and he
didn't do anything to achieve their identity. God made them. That's spoke to themð find
them. God bless them. I want you to see that similarly is Christian with our forgiveness
of sins, and to get the Holy Spirit, that the grace received every every memos are performance
throughout the three free. From the competition, set it free. For a bitterness and jealousy
putting a pair in a decided that marks our world. The probably marks are lots.
When were banging her head against the wall and maybe you are today. That's when we want
to let go of the authority and identity God says we really have because we see our failures
and relied on not worthy, not worthy even to try. So what we do is our consciousness
fret we try harder. At last I will secure identity authorities called me genuinely gallantly
plan only really doesn't let God. I get really serious about that thing God, and is religion.
It always fail. We which are the seven step plan. That's a ten step plan of the book that
the listener that please is that okay is not drinking under this outline is not a divorce
mouth. I was not the rat race to stop it as the Gestapo that I get to kill those things,
and we commit we resolve how do better. I'll try harder. I'll change your weight in our
plans are ridiculous. They truly are. Because the problem is, is worth fighting the last
with the flash.
Which are to be holy. Without God in our pride. We did start in the] futility in our Christianity
becomes training of boring you should enjoy less any issues you kick yelling things those
things yourself. You got a change in with our last Scripture year got obtained with
spear. This last passage in Romans eight Christians. Therefore, brothers addressed the Christians,
we have an obligation, but it is not to the sinful nature to live according to it, for
if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die. But if by the Spirit, and put
to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live because those who led by the Spirit of
God are sons of God. When we confuse our identity. Sometimes because we know we have missed anything
since I live in. Satan tells us you're not a job at your best your Miano, you judge things
up thirty years that they has never dedicated any tells the Latin we think of me got my
actions don't match up and landed on that mirroring the way need to. We honestly step
away provide that any authority is not what anything is like, and he we we we think the
Scriptures say that the onus for the part of the newest, yes. My still standing that
are not simply my sins are forgiven. That's what's different. I virtually every status
before God burritos account my sins against us. You have an Scriptures say, somewhere
were no longer slaves to think yes it does, but it doesn't say you'll no longer stand.
What does it say happy fragrance and halfhearted and so you would be soon free and should you
be free from sin, mastering you pray for instead of slaving you play for the personal sex slave
for the rapid God punished the same flavor. The place is now free from prayer, and used
all the brothers here and step in advance by with the spirit of play that those misdeeds
you take the trial, you won't be mastered with the spirit and the power got been master
those things will be an instrument about to change the sinful nature but still resides
in your life you're still battling in the presence of the spirit, while the holy battle
war through prayer and faith incident is conquered because flash do not live in its presence,
and that's how we live out our identity in live victoriously no final segment wording
is the output. The spirit in prayer together is a powerful way to conduct battle. I hope
I hope you hear the spirit and voice of God today. Your revelation receiver. Your humbly
honored your mates should mere your blessed to bless you have an identity and authority
as a son of God like Simba, let's be set free to really truly live out our true and high
him a