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<>Identity is Everything
[This post is a supplement to the ‘Community of Worshipers’ Sermon series]
Identity is everything. Have your identity wrong, life’s a mess.
Get it right, you step into the fullness of GLORY that GOD intended when you came into the Kingdom of God and were miraculously re-generated into a New Creation, as an adopted son/daughter of the God of the Universe (reff 2Corinthians 5:16-20, John 1:12-14, Romans 8:14-19)
CORE IDENTITIES from The Holy Scriptures.
[editor note: when I can, I’ll re-post this with some passages to study from)
CORE/TRUE IDENTITY is:
-conferred upon us by GOD Himself. He speaks and breathes it into us.
[one amazing point here is that He does that with each of us individually: billions and billions of humans who have had Identity infused into them when the EGG and the SPERM came together to create a new life]
-stepped into, embraced, walked out
[and sometimes we can walk thru our entire lives and not realize what we’re invited to, and what’s available to us!]
-not self-generated or earned, not ‘discovered by attributes, likes, dis-likes or skills’
[we are not our ‘dreams’, our skill-sets, our inclinations]
CORE IDENTITY of BELIEVER [according to Scriptures]
[the sections denote a ‘grouping’ on my part into ‘zip codes’]
[in my study, I tried to distinguish IDENTITY from ‘features’, characteristics or graces that the Redeemed hold. Eample: ‘set apart’ from 1Peter 2:9)
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Child of God
Created in His Image/Likeness
God as ABBA Father
Adopted
Member of Family of God
Joint-Heir
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made by God
[*]
Redeemed and New Creation
Saint
Sealed
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Worshiper
Friend of God
Created for Face-to-Face relationship with God in His Presence
Communicator with God
[*]
Royal Priest within the Royal Priesthood
Temple of the Holy Spirit
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Bride of Christ/King Jesus
Beloved
Body of Christ
People of God
Member of the Ekklesia
[*]
Citizen of Heaven
member of the Kingdom of God
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Disciple/Learner of God
Sheep of His pasture
His workmanship
TAKE-AWAY:
nvitation to Step Into
Romans 8:18-25 has a mind-blowing passage:
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that[h] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
Romans Chapter 8, NIV
What this means is that our identities are yet to be revealed, and that our stepping into Identity will actually re-align the Planet.
Yeah, whole sermon right there.
written by crisbaj
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