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Identities to Anchor Your Soul • Sermon • Submitted
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Identity
Identity
Skinny or Not
Introverted or Extroverted
Family
Race
How you pick up identities...
What you want
What happens to you
What you accomplish or fail
What group you belong to
What you are proud of or ashamed of
Practicing identity
Actions that go with that identity
Joys that go with identity
Sacrifices that go with identity
Views that go with identity
Christian identity - in Christ
English Standard Version Chapter 1
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him
34 Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Shame - permanent shame
27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
No 2nd class citizens
No “I’m misunderstood”
No “I’m oppressed”
Creation
Gender
How to practice this identity - Prayer with confidence
12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.