Priscilla Shirer I Say My Name I Social Dallas

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Zusammenfassung

TLDRIl discorso si concentra sulla ricerca e il riconoscimento della propria identità autentica, raccontando la storia personale dell'oratrice che, durante il liceo, si era data un soprannome per sperimentare una nuova identità. Viene sottolineato che solo il creatore, Dio, ha l'autorità di definire chi siamo veramente. Usando esempi biblici come Gedeone, Agar e Mosè, l'oratrice illustra come ciascuna di queste figure bibliche abbia ricevuto una nuova identità e direzione da Dio, indipendentemente dalle esperienze passate o dalle circostanze. Il messaggio centrale è che non siamo definiti dai fallimenti o dalle percezioni altrui, ma dalla nostra relazione con Dio. Conclude incoraggiando a camminare nella vera identità che Dio ha destinato per noi, resistendo alle false narrazioni e adottando una vita di fiducia e integrità, in linea con il progetto divino.

Mitbringsel

  • 🌟 Dio è l'unico che può definire chi siamo.
  • 🔍 La vera identità non è determinata dalle esperienze passate.
  • 🛡️ Deus ci vede come guerrieri valenti, indipendentemente dalle nostre debolezze attuali.
  • 📖 Le storie bibliche mostrano come Dio possa ricalibrare l'identità.
  • 📢 Dobbiamo agire secondo ciò che Dio dice di noi, non come ci sentiamo.
  • 🏆 La nostra identità vera può influenzare positivamente chi ci circonda.
  • 💡 Vivere in accordo con la nostra vera identità trasforma la nostra vita.
  • 🙏 Essere scelti e amati da Dio ci dà un valore intrinseco.
  • ⛪ Anche nella difficoltà, Dio troverà sempre una via per ricordarci chi siamo.
  • 🤝 L'identità in Cristo è fondamentale per affrontare le sfide della vita.

Zeitleiste

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    La speaker condivide la sua storia personale dal crescere a Dallas, menzionando il suo comportamento birichino da bambina. Racconta un esperimento personale al liceo Duncanville, dove si è presentata col nuovo nome 'DK', che ha adottato per tutta la durata del liceo. La vicenda termina con un episodio in cui la madre scopre il nome alternativo e ribadisce chi sia veramente, sottolineando che il suo nome e identità vera provengono dai genitori.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    La speaker espande il tema dell'identità, affermando che non si è definiti dal passato o dalle proprie esperienze, ma da ciò che Dio dice che si è. Invita a riconoscere l'importanza della propria identità spirituale e a viverla pienamente. Menziona l'importanza dell'identità nella Bibbia, citando gli Israeliti liberati dall'Egitto ma che mantennero mentalità da schiavi, e come Dio cercò di riallinearli con la loro vera identità.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Continuando con il tema dell'identità, la speaker parla di come gli Israeliti, una volta nella Terra Promessa, abbiano integrato l'idolatria, minacciando la loro identità e aprendo la porta ad attacchi nemici. Si focalizza su Gedeone, che viene visitato dall'angelo del Signore per ricordargli la sua vera identità in un tempo di crisi. Nonostante il contesto difficile, Dio lo chiama 'valoroso guerriero'.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    L'angelo del Signore appare a Gedeone anche quando sta nascostamente trebbiando il grano per paura dei nemici, trovandolo nonostante i suoi sforzi di non farsi trovare. La speaker sottolinea che Dio ci trova e ci definisce indipendentemente dal nostro comportamento attuale o dalle circostanze sfavorevoli, chiamandoci a vivere secondo la nostra vera identità.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Attraverso un aneddoto personale, la speaker illustra come orienta i suoi figli verso una identità basata sui valori e sull'integrità piuttosto che sul comportamento. Invita il pubblico a vivere in conformità con l'identità che Dio ha definito per loro, sottolineando l'impatto trasformativo di vivere secondo la propria vera identità spirituale.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Parlando delle conseguenze positive che conseguirono all'accettazione della sua identità da parte di Gedeone, racconta come egli eliminò l'idolatria dalla famiglia e portò il suo popolo verso una vittoria importante. Sottolinea l'importanza dell'identità individuale per influenzare positivamente la famiglia e la comunità, fino ad arrivare a delle trasformazioni a livello nazionale.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    La speaker elenca diverse verità su chi sono i credenti agli occhi di Dio, affermando l'importanza di vivere secondo tali verità. Incoraggia il pubblico ad essere consapevole della propria identità in Cristo per vivere pienamente e influenzare positivamente il mondo intorno a loro.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:04

    Conclude con un appello a riallinearsi con l'identità donata da Dio, invitando chi sta lottando con la propria identità a smettere di fuggire e ad accettare la verità di chi sono. La preghiera finale invita a vivere secondo questa vera identità scoperta in Cristo, riconoscendo le aree della vita che possono essere trasformate da questa consapevolezza.

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Häufig gestellte Fragen

  • Qual è il tema principale del discorso?

    Il tema principale è l'identità personale secondo la visione di Dio.

  • Che esperienza personale è stata condivisa?

    L'oratrice ha condiviso una storia di quando si è data un soprannome (DK) al liceo per un esperimento sociale.

  • Qual è l'obiettivo dell'oratrice nel raccontare la sua storia?

    Illustrare l'importanza di sapere chi siamo veramente al di là delle etichette che ci diamo o che ci vengono date.

  • Come viene usata la Bibbia nel discorso?

    Vengono usati esempi biblici, come la storia di Gedeone, per sottolineare il concetto di identità data da Dio.

  • Perché è importante conoscere la nostra vera identità?

    Per vivere allineati con la nostra vera essenza e affrontare la vita con fiducia e determinazione.

  • Quale messaggio viene trasmesso riguardo agli errori passati?

    Che gli errori passati non definiscono chi siamo veramente.

  • Cosa implica il riconoscere la nostra identità in Dio?

    Implica vivere secondo i principi e la forza che Dio ci ha conferito.

  • Quali sono alcuni dei riferimenti biblici menzionati?

    Le storie di Gedeone, Mosè e Agar sono usate come analogie di identità e chiamata divina.

  • Qual è l'invito finale del discorso?

    A riconoscere e abbracciare la propria identità in Cristo e camminare in essa.

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    some of you know that I grew up right
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    here in the Dallas Fort Worth area still
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    live just you know around the corner a
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    little bit from here still attend attend
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    the exact same church that my parents
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    started when I was one year old and so
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    Dallas is my home I went to Duncanville
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    High School graduated from there you
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    know in the 1900s way back in the
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    day I was of the four of us the
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    mischievous child I was the one that
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    gave my parents a run for their money
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    you know how it's all always that one
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    that you're wondering whether or not
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    they going to turn out okay I was that
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    one for my parents I was always getting
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    into something always being a little
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    mischievous and one of the most
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    mischievous things I ever did was when I
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    was going into high school at
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    Duncanville from kindergarten to 8th
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    grade my siblings and I went to this
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    little private school that was around
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    the corner from our house in doto but um
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    for freshman year we transferred over to
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    Duncanville and I thought this would be
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    a wonderful opportunity to just take on
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    a little
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    experiment my class at the little
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    private school there were about 13 kids
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    in my class when I transferred to
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    Duncanville High School I went from a
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    class of 13 to a class of
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    753 that's not the high school
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    population that was just the freshman
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    class was 753 students so it was a
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    complete culture shock to me and a great
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    opportunity to experiment I thought when
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    I transferred to Duncanville I would
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    just give myself a new name that I would
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    introduce myself as this new name I just
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    picked two initials put them together DK
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    I decided my new nickname was going to
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    be DK and the experiment was going to be
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    that when I went to this new school I
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    would introduce myself by this new name
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    just to see if it would catch on I had
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    one friend Nicole that had grown up in
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    the Duncanville school school district
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    so she already knew all these people she
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    and I were in youth group together at
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    oiff Bible Fellowship Church our church
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    on the other side of town and so I knew
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    I'd probably be hanging out with Nicole
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    I let her in on my experiment I said now
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    Nicole when we go to school first day
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    first week of school and you're
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    introducing me around do not call me
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    Priscilla just introduce me as DK she
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    said girl what I said it's just an
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    experiment I just want to see if it's
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    going to catch on and to make a long
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    story short y'all for the next four
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    years of my life everybody called me DK
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    everybody in my that were my peer group
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    there at Duncanville the teacher ERS the
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    counselors the principals everybody even
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    people in different high schools as we
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    connected with them at football games on
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    the Friday nights and all that everybody
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    just just thought my name was DK very
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    few people if any at all even knew that
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    my name was actually Priscilla they
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    called me DK to this day if I run across
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    somebody in the mall or the grocery
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    store or somebody comments on social
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    media and says hey DK I know that it's
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    somebody that I knew during that season
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    of my life those four years because
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    everybody called me DK my parents really
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    didn't give me a hard time about it they
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    were a little bit annoyed you know when
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    my athletic uniforms were monogrammed
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    with dck on them except Priscilla but
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    they didn't say much about it but it all
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    came to a head on one day when I got
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    sick at school I had a temperature I was
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    in the nurses station laying behind a
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    little drape they had drawn there I
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    remember laying on a little cot and they
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    had to call my mom to come pick me up
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    from school because of my fever
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    and I remember hearing my mom come into
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    the nursing station and say to the nurse
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    there I am here to pick up Priscilla the
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    nurse said
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    who I'm here to pick up Priscilla I
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    heard them going back and forth just for
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    a second when the nurse said well we
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    have a dck here and Mom said that's her
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    give me that girl and let me take her
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    home went home mom kind of nursed me
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    back to health and then when I felt
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    better I will never forget my mother
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    looking at me squarely in my eyes and
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    saying now Priscilla I have not minded
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    your father and I have not minded this
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    whole little experiment that you've
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    taken on the last few years but she said
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    I do want to be clear about something it
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    was my senior year at the time she said
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    I want to be clear about the fact that
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    in a few months there's going to be a
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    ceremony a graduation and at that
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    ceremony they're going to hand you a
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    very important document and she said let
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    me be clear when they hand you that
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    diploma there better not be a d or a k
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    anywhere on that piece of paper and she
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    said to me the reason why is because I I
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    really don't care what other people call
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    you I don't care how many other people
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    call you that and I don't even care
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    Priscilla what you call yourself there's
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    only one or two me and your father who
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    have the right and the authority to give
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    you your name you are not what other
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    people call you you are not even what
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    you've called
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    yourself only the one who created you
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    has the right and the author authority
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    to identify you so for a few minutes
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    this morning I just came to remind you
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    what your name is I came to remind you
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    who you are listen to me brothers and
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    sisters you are not defined by your past
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    you are not defined by your behaviors
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    you are not defined by your failures you
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    are not defined by your struggles you
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    are not defined by your feelings you are
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    not defined by your circumstances you
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    are not defined by the here today gone
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    tomorrow false ideologies and water down
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    philosophies of our current culture you
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    are who God says you
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    are it don't matter what other folks
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    have been calling you and it doesn't
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    even matter what you've chosen to call
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    yourself there's only one who has the
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    authority to identify you and it's the
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    one who gave life to you others aren't
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    qualified to to name you circumstances
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    aren't powerful enough to Define you
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    your story may have hurt you but it does
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    not shape the totality of who you are
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    you are who God says you are and he says
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    you're a chosen race you're a royal
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    priesthood you're a person who has been
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    redeemed and chosen adopted and
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    qualified you are not a mistake you are
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    not an afterthought you are not a
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    liability you are a temple of the holy
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    spirit of God and the value he has
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    placed on you means you are
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    enough God loves Dallas yes God loves
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    you he made you in His image both
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    physically and in your personality the
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    strengths and the weaknesses all of it
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    is an expression of the creative genius
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    of almighty God and when you surrender
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    your whole self fully and completely to
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    him him he loves and Val values you
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    enough that he actually takes up
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    residence in you he makes you his
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    dwelling place so you become a temple of
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    almighty God and that means you're an
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    overcomer that's who you are I don't
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    know who has lied to you up until this
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    point but it is important that you and I
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    get our identity in him in full View and
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    the reason why y'all is because whether
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    or not you walk in Victory is directly
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    correlated to what you believe to be
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    true about yourself you will either live
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    up to or you will live down to whatever
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    you believe to be true about yourself so
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    I want to talk to you about your
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    identity identity is critical in fact
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    it's one of the major themes that you'll
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    see all throughout the Old Testament and
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    all throughout the New Testament you see
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    this theme of identity that keeps coming
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    up over and over again God showing up to
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    get people's identity re-calibrated so
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    that they will begin to live according
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    and in alignment with what he is said to
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    be true about them one of the most
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    notable places that we see this in
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    scripture the most notable relationship
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    where we can see him recalibrating
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    people's identity is with the children
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    of Israel throughout the Old Testament
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    because after 400 years of slavery in
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    Egypt under Pharaoh they had developed
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    the mindset and perspective of living
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    like slaves and so even after 10
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    miraculous plagues and guiding them
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    miraculously through the Wilderness in
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    fact those 40 years were about their
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    identity in the wilderness because he
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    had freed them from Egypt but it would
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    take 40 Years of wilderness wondering
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    wonderings to make sure that Egypt was
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    now out of them they had been freed out
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    of Egypt but Egypt needed to be detached
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    from them because what good is it to be
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    legally free if you still living like a
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    slave what good is it to be free free
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    when you're still thinking like and
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    operating like and deciding like and
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    reacting like and relating to other
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    people like you are not free making
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    decisions out of scarcity and lack and
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    fear and intimidation and so Yahweh
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    spends 40 years re-calibrating their
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    identity reminding them you are who I
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    say you are you ain't this you're this
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    start acting like this so the children
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    of Israel they come out of wilderness
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    one W ings they come into the promised
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    land and the Book of Judges is where you
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    and I are going to meet them today in
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    Judges chapter 6 if you have your copy
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    of the script you know if you still use
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    a old school paper Bible like I do you
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    can flip over to Judges chapter 6 or
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    your iPhone your iPad any manner of
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    iness will get you there and let me tell
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    you while you're turning there the
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    Judges chapter 6 is all about the
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    children of Israel being or the Book of
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    Judges is being already in Canaan they
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    already come out of Egypt now they've
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    already been through the Wilderness they
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    are now in the land flowing with milk
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    and honey but while they are there
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    idolatry is introduced to the children
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    of Israel idolatry is always a threat to
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    your identity it will always begin to
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    make you question whether or not he is
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    who he says he is and that you are who
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    God says you are the whole Book of
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    Judges it's not about the children of
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    Israel turning their backs completely on
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    the one true God it is about the people
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    of God stationing their worship of Idols
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    alongside their worship of the one true
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    God and listen to me it's this duplicity
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    of the people of God that caused such a
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    Decay throughout the society in the Book
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    of Judges that by the time you get to
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    the last line of the Book of Judges if
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    you were to read it you'll see the last
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    line says everybody was doing what was
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    right in their own eyes y'all if that
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    don't sound like America in the year
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    2023 I don't know what does because when
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    your identity is d distorted truth is
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    distorted and the entire culture
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    decays and so they open themselves up to
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    enemy attack the Book of Judges is them
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    living in the land of promise but still
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    still experiencing and exposing
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    themselves to enemy attack on all sides
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    they have been ravaged by the midianites
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    who have come to them seven consecutive
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    years pillaging their towns burning down
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    their homes they've had to escape their
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    cities for fear running in fear from
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    enemies and live on the side of
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    mountains and in caves so that they can
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    hide themselves from the approaching and
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    marauding enemies and because their
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    identity is not in view they expose
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    themselves to enemy attack but
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    everything is about to change on one day
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    when God comes to remind one person of
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    who they really are Judges 6: 11 and 12
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    then the angel of the Lord came and he
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    sat down under this oak tree that was in
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    a town called ofra which belonged to
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    joash the
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    abrite as his son
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    Gideon was beating out wheat in a wine
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    press in order to save it from those
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    midianites verse 12 and the angel of the
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    Lord appeared to him and said to him the
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    Lord is with you oh Valiant Warrior
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    these are our two verses this morning
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    where we're just going to spend a little
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    time because the angel of the Lord shows
  • 00:12:28
    up in the of national Calamity and Chaos
  • 00:12:31
    that is written about all throughout the
  • 00:12:33
    Book of Judges he shows up into the
  • 00:12:35
    experience of one man named Gideon to
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    remind him who he really is to call out
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    of him the behaviors the actions the
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    choices that should have been instilled
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    in him because his identity was in Clear
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    View he says to him you are a valiant
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    Warrior the angel of the Lord shows up
  • 00:12:55
    for this one p purpose to remind one
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    person who they really are the whole
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    nation is in Decay but he doesn't show
  • 00:13:03
    up on a national level he doesn't show
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    up on a communal level he shows up to
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    one person that's how critical this
  • 00:13:12
    issue of identity was that the angel of
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    the Lord showed up to one individual to
  • 00:13:17
    remind him about his identity let me
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    tell you why this Sunday morning is so
  • 00:13:22
    important let me tell you why the reason
  • 00:13:24
    why you fought through all that traffic
  • 00:13:26
    this morning but the Lord still made it
  • 00:13:28
    to where you could get in this room and
  • 00:13:30
    that you could sit in these seats let me
  • 00:13:32
    tell you why teenager that you were
  • 00:13:34
    frustrated this morning that your mama
  • 00:13:35
    and then woke you up and made you come
  • 00:13:37
    to church let me tell you the reason why
  • 00:13:40
    is not so that you could just sit in a
  • 00:13:41
    building on a Sunday morning it's
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    because the angel of the lord The Hound
  • 00:13:45
    of Heaven came looking for you this
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    morning to remind one person you brother
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    or sister have your spiritual ears whole
  • 00:13:55
    open to hear God say you are who I say
  • 00:13:58
    you are now act like that not the way
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    you feel not what has happened to you
  • 00:14:04
    not your past behaviors don't align with
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    that align your whole self with who I
  • 00:14:09
    have declared you to be the angel of the
  • 00:14:12
    Lord he comes to tell one person who he
  • 00:14:16
    is the Angel of the Lord anytime you see
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    this phrase you need to know what's
  • 00:14:21
    happening Scholars call uh this the
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    great presence capital g capital P the
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    Great great presence of Israelite
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    history because whenever you see the
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    phrase the angel of the Lord in the Old
  • 00:14:34
    Testament you need to know this ain't no
  • 00:14:36
    regular Angel we're not talking about
  • 00:14:38
    Gabriel and Michael and them the angel
  • 00:14:41
    of the Lord was the pre-incarnate Jesus
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    Christ that basically before Jesus put
  • 00:14:46
    on flesh and came in the New Testament
  • 00:14:48
    he was already already showing up in the
  • 00:14:50
    Old Testament it's called a theophany a
  • 00:14:53
    god appearance when God himself would
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    step out of Heaven onto the landscape of
  • 00:14:58
    Earth and he would intervene with the
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    regular details of a regular ordinary
  • 00:15:03
    life so that he could shift the
  • 00:15:05
    trajectory not only of that life but of
  • 00:15:07
    everything and everybody attached to
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    that life so the angel of the Lord kept
  • 00:15:12
    showing up over and over and over again
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    and if I had time this morning y'all
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    we'd spend a whole hour just talking
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    about the angel of the Lord because you
  • 00:15:20
    need to know that the fact that the god
  • 00:15:22
    of the universe would step onto the
  • 00:15:24
    landscape of earth that is never
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    something that we should hear and let it
  • 00:15:28
    roll off our shoulders as if it's no big
  • 00:15:30
    deal because this is God we're talking
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    about the one who right now while we're
  • 00:15:35
    sitting in this room is controlling the
  • 00:15:38
    throws of the entire universe the one
  • 00:15:40
    who while we're sitting right here in
  • 00:15:42
    this room he's the one that made sure
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    that the sun rose this morning and he's
  • 00:15:46
    going to hold it in place all day long
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    till it swaps places with the moon later
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    on tonight this is God we're talking
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    about the one who's going to hang every
  • 00:15:56
    single star in the sky and he's going to
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    know every single one of their names
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    tonight and every single one of their
  • 00:16:02
    numbers this is God we're talking about
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    the one who's controlling the throws of
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    the galaxies and neighborhoods in the
  • 00:16:09
    galaxies that scientists don't even yet
  • 00:16:12
    know exist he's the one controlling all
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    of that and in the midst of all of that
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    he stopped by on this Sunday morning to
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    come see about
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    you that's a big
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    deal that we serve a god
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    that great who is also that
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    good that that he cares that much about
  • 00:16:36
    you that that that he made sure on the
  • 00:16:39
    calendar of your life you were here and
  • 00:16:42
    I got to be here on this Sunday morning
  • 00:16:44
    so that he could move Heaven and Earth
  • 00:16:46
    to just whisper to your heart I got
  • 00:16:51
    you the angel of the Lord kept showing
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    up all throughout the Old Testament just
  • 00:16:55
    like this for one person on a regular
  • 00:16:57
    ordinary day just to say I got you just
  • 00:17:00
    to remind them who they were Genesis
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    chapter 16 there's a lady named Hagar
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    Hagar has a past she's been misused and
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    abused by people she was supposed to be
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    able to
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    trust Abraham and Sarah and then they
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    discard her they discard her out into a
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    Wilderness with her newborn son the
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    baby's crying she has no food for the
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    baby her entire future is in Jeopardy
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    she is crying a river of tears that has
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    blurred her vision so that she can
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    barely see what's in front of her and in
  • 00:17:30
    the midst of her Devastation and in the
  • 00:17:32
    midst of her fear and her concern about
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    her future after being misused and
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    abused by people she was supposed to be
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    able to trust the angel of the Lord
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    shows up in Genesis chapter 16 and says
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    to Hagar let me tell you who you are you
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    are not what they did to you it happened
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    but that does not define you you still
  • 00:17:55
    are Hagar who I say you are so maybe
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    you're like Gideon that the midianites
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    the enemy the circumstances of your life
  • 00:18:02
    have closed in on you and you find
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    yourself sitting in a situation that
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    that is because of the results of the
  • 00:18:10
    circumstances that are around you or
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    maybe you're like Hagar that really it's
  • 00:18:13
    not your circumstances that have done it
  • 00:18:15
    to you it's other folk that have done it
  • 00:18:17
    to you that people you were supposed to
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    be able to trust the folks you were
  • 00:18:21
    supposed to be able to rely on they've
  • 00:18:23
    betrayed you they've abandoned you and
  • 00:18:25
    they've set you on a path the likes of
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    which you can't even believe leave
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    whether you're Gideon or whether you're
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    Hagar this morning the angel of the Lord
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    has come looking for you he can find you
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    wherever you are or maybe you're not
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    Gideon or Hagar maybe you're Moses
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    because in Exodus chapter 3 he's sitting
  • 00:18:41
    in a desert of his own making he did it
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    to
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    himself for Moses it was not that the
  • 00:18:48
    circumstances did it and it wasn't
  • 00:18:50
    really that other folks did it it's
  • 00:18:51
    because he made a choice he made a
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    decision out of sin and anger he made a
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    choice that put him into this desert
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    where now he is tending sheep for 40
  • 00:19:01
    young long years Moses had been raised
  • 00:19:04
    as The Prince of Egypt so shepherding is
  • 00:19:07
    a job that is so below his pay grade and
  • 00:19:09
    beneath his educational level but while
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    he is in that desert of his own making
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    one day a bush starts burning and the
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    bush is burning but it's not consumed so
  • 00:19:22
    he sees something Supernatural in the
  • 00:19:24
    bush and when he stops by to see about
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    this bush he realizes that the of the
  • 00:19:28
    Lord is there and the angel of the Lord
  • 00:19:31
    has shown up in Moses's circumstances to
  • 00:19:33
    remind him you are not what has happened
  • 00:19:36
    to you you are not what you did you are
  • 00:19:39
    not your behaviors you still are Moses
  • 00:19:43
    exactly who I say you are and the
  • 00:19:46
    reality is that some of us aren't Gideon
  • 00:19:48
    circumstances didn't do it to us some of
  • 00:19:50
    us aren't Hagar other folks didn't do it
  • 00:19:52
    to us the reality is if we had time for
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    Testimony service most of us would
  • 00:19:57
    recognize we did it to our ourselves
  • 00:19:59
    because we can look back and realize
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    there's a decision we made that put us
  • 00:20:03
    in this desert there's a choice we made
  • 00:20:05
    there's a relationship we allow there's
  • 00:20:07
    a path we walk down I don't know about
  • 00:20:09
    y'all but there's a whole season of my
  • 00:20:11
    life I look back on and I don't even
  • 00:20:13
    recognize that crazy person back there
  • 00:20:15
    anybody can I get a
  • 00:20:17
    witness where you look back and you
  • 00:20:19
    realize you can't believe you made those
  • 00:20:21
    choices or walked with those people or
  • 00:20:23
    allowed that path or chose and made
  • 00:20:26
    those kinds of decisions and you re
  • 00:20:28
    recognize had it not been for the grace
  • 00:20:30
    of God had it not been for the goodness
  • 00:20:33
    of God delivering us when we were not in
  • 00:20:35
    our right minds and setting us on a
  • 00:20:38
    brand new path reminding us that we are
  • 00:20:41
    not what we
  • 00:20:42
    did we are who God says we are so he
  • 00:20:46
    showed up for Moses and he shows up for
  • 00:20:49
    you he shows up for Hagar and he shows
  • 00:20:51
    up for you and he shows up for
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    Gideon and he says Gideon you're a
  • 00:20:57
    valiant Warrior now the author of Judges
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    chap 6: 11 and 12 wants you to know
  • 00:21:03
    exactly what Gideon was doing when the
  • 00:21:05
    angel of the Lord showed up it says he's
  • 00:21:07
    beating out wheat but he's doing it in a
  • 00:21:10
    wine press now the reason why that is
  • 00:21:13
    critical because you need to know that
  • 00:21:15
    where grapes were pressed to make wine
  • 00:21:18
    and where wheat was threshed to prepare
  • 00:21:20
    for Harvest were two completely
  • 00:21:22
    different environments threshing wheat
  • 00:21:24
    always took place on the top of a
  • 00:21:27
    hillside in the open air and the reason
  • 00:21:30
    why they needed the open air on the top
  • 00:21:32
    of a hillside where the draft would be
  • 00:21:34
    heavy is because when you would beat out
  • 00:21:36
    wheat it would dislodge this useless
  • 00:21:39
    nutrient called chaff they needed the
  • 00:21:42
    wind to drive the chaff away you'll see
  • 00:21:45
    that figuratively all throughout the Old
  • 00:21:47
    Testament the tra chaff being driven
  • 00:21:49
    Away by the wind wine getting pressed
  • 00:21:53
    happened in a completely different
  • 00:21:55
    environment they didn't want open air
  • 00:21:57
    they needed it to be shaded and damp to
  • 00:21:59
    make sure it was the right environment
  • 00:22:01
    for the grapes to produce what they
  • 00:22:03
    wanted it to produce so that would
  • 00:22:05
    happened at the bottom of a hillside in
  • 00:22:07
    a depression on the side of a rock in a
  • 00:22:09
    shaded damp environment these two things
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    happen in completely different Dynamics
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    but what we find is them overlapping
  • 00:22:17
    with Gideon Gideon is doing what should
  • 00:22:20
    be done down up high he's doing it down
  • 00:22:23
    low the reason why he is not threshing
  • 00:22:26
    wheat on a Hilltop where it would be
  • 00:22:29
    more convenient and easy and helpful to
  • 00:22:31
    get that chaff D driven away the reason
  • 00:22:34
    why he's in the depression of a rock
  • 00:22:36
    doing it is because if the wind drove
  • 00:22:38
    the chaff away then that chaff the scent
  • 00:22:41
    of it would be delivered right to the
  • 00:22:43
    midianites and the midianites would know
  • 00:22:46
    there was a
  • 00:22:47
    harvest so he's trying the end of verse
  • 00:22:50
    11 says to save it from the midianites
  • 00:22:53
    he doesn't want them to know there's a
  • 00:22:55
    harvest and so y'all he is in the Deep
  • 00:22:58
    oppression of a rock doing this more
  • 00:23:00
    timeconsuming tedious inconvenient job
  • 00:23:04
    he's willing to do it in that
  • 00:23:05
    environment because he's hiding he's
  • 00:23:08
    trying to make sure that he hides from
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    these enemies he's walking in fear and
  • 00:23:13
    insecurity and he's hiding in this deep
  • 00:23:15
    depression of a rock he's hiding he's
  • 00:23:18
    trying not to be
  • 00:23:20
    found and in this position where he's
  • 00:23:23
    trying not to be found the angel of the
  • 00:23:26
    Lord comes and finds him
  • 00:23:28
    yeah the reason why this is good news is
  • 00:23:31
    because I need you to know that there
  • 00:23:33
    are some people in your life your
  • 00:23:35
    teenager your young adult child your
  • 00:23:38
    spouse your parent and your heart has
  • 00:23:40
    been broken for them because they've
  • 00:23:42
    been trying not to be found they've been
  • 00:23:45
    running from the arm of God you've been
  • 00:23:48
    asking God to bring them into
  • 00:23:49
    relationship with himself and they just
  • 00:23:51
    running they just are rebelling their
  • 00:23:53
    heart is hard they're stiff necked
  • 00:23:55
    they're refusing to come into
  • 00:23:57
    relationship with him I need you to know
  • 00:23:59
    today that even for your loved ones that
  • 00:24:01
    are trying not to be found the angel of
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    the Lord can still come and find
  • 00:24:07
    them and aren't we glad about it that
  • 00:24:10
    that the Hound of Heaven keeps coming to
  • 00:24:11
    look for us because we've all had those
  • 00:24:14
    seasons of our life where honestly we
  • 00:24:15
    were trying not to be found we were
  • 00:24:17
    trying to avoid the voice of God avoid
  • 00:24:20
    the conviction of God go in a different
  • 00:24:22
    direction act like we didn't feel the
  • 00:24:23
    poking and the prodding of God's spirit
  • 00:24:26
    in some area of our life and the reality
  • 00:24:28
    is we have testimony that had it not
  • 00:24:30
    been for the goodness of God the Hound
  • 00:24:32
    of Heaven that would not let us go that
  • 00:24:35
    kept looking for us aren't we grateful
  • 00:24:37
    for his grace and
  • 00:24:40
    mercy so he finds Gideon and he finds up
  • 00:24:44
    even when we're trying not to be found
  • 00:24:46
    and he steps into this scenario where
  • 00:24:48
    Gideon is listen he's currently
  • 00:24:52
    operating in fear and
  • 00:24:53
    insecurity the whole reason he's in the
  • 00:24:56
    wine press is because he's currently
  • 00:24:59
    operating and acting out of fear
  • 00:25:02
    insecurity and
  • 00:25:04
    intimidation and even though he's
  • 00:25:07
    behaving that way God steps in and says
  • 00:25:12
    you are not your
  • 00:25:15
    behavior somebody needs to hear that
  • 00:25:17
    this
  • 00:25:18
    morning what you did last night doesn't
  • 00:25:21
    Define you
  • 00:25:23
    today you are not what has happened to
  • 00:25:26
    you you are not the circumstances that
  • 00:25:29
    are surrounding your life right now they
  • 00:25:31
    are not powerful enough to Define you
  • 00:25:34
    you still are who God says you are God
  • 00:25:38
    shows up to a man who is insecure and
  • 00:25:40
    operating In Fear And he
  • 00:25:42
    says you're a valiant
  • 00:25:45
    Warrior he speaks to him according to
  • 00:25:48
    the truth of his identity not the
  • 00:25:50
    current circumstances of his
  • 00:25:52
    reality he says you are this now act
  • 00:25:57
    like
  • 00:25:58
    that I do have three sons 21 19 and 15
  • 00:26:03
    years old I drive my kids bananas I
  • 00:26:07
    think that's a mark of a good
  • 00:26:10
    mother is that they ought to be sick of
  • 00:26:12
    you because you know you have
  • 00:26:16
    rules you have things you want them to
  • 00:26:18
    incorporate into their life that they
  • 00:26:20
    don't value and you say things to them
  • 00:26:23
    that they get tired of hearing mama say
  • 00:26:25
    over and over and over again since they
  • 00:26:29
    were very little I have said pretty much
  • 00:26:31
    the same thing to my boys most every day
  • 00:26:34
    I make them stand in front of me when
  • 00:26:36
    they were at home the older two were in
  • 00:26:38
    college down when they were at home I'd
  • 00:26:39
    make them stand right in front of me and
  • 00:26:41
    i' make them look me in my eyes and they
  • 00:26:42
    would have the nerve to sometimes slump
  • 00:26:44
    their shoulders over and sometimes they
  • 00:26:46
    would look at me and if they were real
  • 00:26:48
    bold and Brazen they might actually roll
  • 00:26:50
    their eyes not
  • 00:26:53
    today and I would say to those boys no
  • 00:26:55
    no no look at me and listen to me and I
  • 00:26:57
    would look them squarely in their eyes
  • 00:26:59
    and I would say you are a man of
  • 00:27:02
    integrity honesty and character you will
  • 00:27:05
    love the Lord your God with all your
  • 00:27:07
    heart with all your soul and with all
  • 00:27:09
    your strength you will put on the full
  • 00:27:11
    armor of God so that you can stand firm
  • 00:27:13
    against the schemes of the enemy you are
  • 00:27:15
    a leader you are not a follower you are
  • 00:27:17
    the head you are not the tail you are
  • 00:27:20
    above you are not beneath and the
  • 00:27:22
    Praises of God will always be in your
  • 00:27:24
    mouth and you will rise up and be a
  • 00:27:27
    mighty warrior in the kingdom of God or
  • 00:27:29
    I will spank
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    [Music]
  • 00:27:34
    you they' kind of go oh man I still text
  • 00:27:37
    it to my boys a lot throughout the week
  • 00:27:39
    I will text it to them I'll say say this
  • 00:27:41
    out loud today and I don't know whether
  • 00:27:43
    they do or not but I'm going to text it
  • 00:27:44
    to them I'm going to keep feeding it to
  • 00:27:46
    them and I knew it was getting into them
  • 00:27:48
    because every now and then when I will
  • 00:27:50
    say it to them I would tell them you
  • 00:27:52
    finish it what what what's the rest of
  • 00:27:53
    this statement and they go I'm a man of
  • 00:27:55
    integrity character and honesty I will
  • 00:27:57
    love the Lord my God with all my heart
  • 00:27:59
    and all my strength but even with the
  • 00:28:01
    attitude what it tells me is that you're
  • 00:28:03
    hearing me and it's getting in
  • 00:28:08
    you the reason why I have made it my
  • 00:28:12
    business to say this to my boys is not
  • 00:28:15
    because their behavior always lines up
  • 00:28:17
    with it it's because I'm trying to get
  • 00:28:20
    them to behave in a way that lines up
  • 00:28:22
    with their identity this is who I say
  • 00:28:25
    you are God says you are now act like
  • 00:28:28
    that think like that react like that
  • 00:28:31
    make decisions like
  • 00:28:33
    that can you think of how our lives
  • 00:28:37
    would be
  • 00:28:38
    transformed if we started acting not
  • 00:28:41
    according to the way we
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    feel but according to what God says is
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    true can you imagine what relationships
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    we wouldn't even
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    entertain if we believed what God said
  • 00:28:54
    to be true about us can you imagine how
  • 00:28:57
    your reaction to that coworker would be
  • 00:28:59
    completely different you would restrain
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    yourself cuz you know this is who I am
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    can you imagine how more much more we
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    would refuse to do things for the
  • 00:29:09
    approval of other people that their
  • 00:29:11
    Applause or their like or their comment
  • 00:29:13
    isn't actually uh important to us that's
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    inconsequential to us because I don't
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    need your approval the scripture says
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    I'm already approved that I'm already
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    accepted that I'm already enough that
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    I'm already valued I don't need your
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    Applause God has already applauded for
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    me it changes and transforms the
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    entirety of our life where we stop
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    operating just based on the way we feel
  • 00:29:38
    in the moment and reacting based on that
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    and instead we remind ourselves this is
  • 00:29:43
    who I am so I'm going to rise to that
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    standard and behave like that it'll
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    transform your life not only will it
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    transform your life but if you read
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    throughout the rest of Judges chapter 6
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    then you will see that immediately after
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    Gideon hears from God that he is a
  • 00:30:01
    valiant Warrior he immediately goes back
  • 00:30:04
    home to his father's house and he goes
  • 00:30:07
    into this house that he's been afraid to
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    interact with in previous chapters he
  • 00:30:11
    goes back to his father's home he grabs
  • 00:30:14
    all of the idols that were in their home
  • 00:30:17
    and he breaks them one by one over his
  • 00:30:19
    knee changing the trajectory of idolatry
  • 00:30:23
    through the course of his entire family
  • 00:30:25
    in fact the entire family and the entire
  • 00:30:29
    generational line connected to it is
  • 00:30:31
    completely transformed because one
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    person gets a hold of their
  • 00:30:36
    identity do you know that there are
  • 00:30:38
    people attached to you who are waiting
  • 00:30:40
    for you to get your identity in view do
  • 00:30:43
    you realize that your sons and your
  • 00:30:45
    daughters your grandsons and your
  • 00:30:47
    granddaughters our great grandchildren
  • 00:30:49
    that we have not even laid eyes on that
  • 00:30:52
    the trajectory of their lives is
  • 00:30:54
    attached to us Gideon getting our
  • 00:30:57
    identity in view so that we can go home
  • 00:30:59
    and say this is who we were but this is
  • 00:31:02
    not who we are anymore that we're
  • 00:31:04
    breaking generational curses and
  • 00:31:06
    Shifting the trajectory of our entire
  • 00:31:09
    family lines because we going to start
  • 00:31:11
    living up to the standard of who God
  • 00:31:13
    says we
  • 00:31:14
    are and then after he transforms his
  • 00:31:16
    whole family Gideon goes into battle
  • 00:31:20
    with this is what he's most notable for
  • 00:31:22
    this is probably why you know Gideon
  • 00:31:24
    because with an army of 300 a little
  • 00:31:26
    meager Army army they go up against
  • 00:31:29
    140,000 midianite soldiers and they
  • 00:31:32
    bring home a victory and the entire
  • 00:31:34
    trajectory of the nation is completely
  • 00:31:37
    turned around because this one guy has
  • 00:31:41
    recalibrated his identity your family is
  • 00:31:45
    not the only thing attached to you
  • 00:31:47
    there's a whole Community attached to
  • 00:31:50
    you y'all there's a whole National
  • 00:31:52
    crisis that we are living in right now
  • 00:31:55
    that is attached to the people of God
  • 00:31:57
    rising up and being who God has called
  • 00:31:59
    us to be if we would just show up with
  • 00:32:02
    our full identity in view who knows how
  • 00:32:06
    the school district attached to you is
  • 00:32:07
    going to change how the work environment
  • 00:32:09
    attached to you is going to change how
  • 00:32:11
    your neighborhood is going to change
  • 00:32:13
    your community group is going to change
  • 00:32:15
    the city the state the whole nation
  • 00:32:17
    transformed because God's people
  • 00:32:20
    remembered who they
  • 00:32:22
    were and so for just a few moments at
  • 00:32:27
    the close of this message I thought I'd
  • 00:32:30
    just take a couple minutes to remind you
  • 00:32:34
    brothers and sisters who you
  • 00:32:38
    are you are a child of God you have
  • 00:32:44
    peace with God the Holy Spirit lives in
  • 00:32:48
    you you have access to God's wisdom you
  • 00:32:51
    are helped by God you are reconciled to
  • 00:32:54
    God you are not condemned by God you are
  • 00:32:58
    justified by God you have Christ
  • 00:33:00
    righteousness you are Christ Ambassador
  • 00:33:03
    you are completely forgiven and you are
  • 00:33:05
    completely free there is therefore no
  • 00:33:09
    condemnation for those of us who are in
  • 00:33:11
    Christ Jesus you are blameless and
  • 00:33:13
    Beyond reproach you are the salt of the
  • 00:33:15
    earth and you are the light of the world
  • 00:33:17
    you are Christ friend you are chosen by
  • 00:33:20
    Christ to bear fruit you are a joint air
  • 00:33:23
    with Christ sharing in his inheritance
  • 00:33:25
    you are united with the Lord you are
  • 00:33:28
    members of Christ's body you are hidden
  • 00:33:30
    in Christ with God you are a child of
  • 00:33:33
    light You Are Holy and you share in
  • 00:33:35
    God's Heavenly calling you are a member
  • 00:33:37
    of a chosen race you're a royal
  • 00:33:40
    priesthood you're a holy nation you're a
  • 00:33:42
    people for God's Own possession created
  • 00:33:44
    to sing the Praises of God you have been
  • 00:33:47
    born of God and the evil one can't even
  • 00:33:49
    touch you you've been rescued by God
  • 00:33:52
    you've been made complete in Christ you
  • 00:33:55
    have not been given a spirit of fear
  • 00:33:57
    but of power and of love and of a sound
  • 00:34:00
    mind you have been given access to great
  • 00:34:03
    and precious Privileges and Promises by
  • 00:34:05
    God your needs are met by God you have
  • 00:34:08
    been sought with a price you've been
  • 00:34:10
    adopted into the family of God you have
  • 00:34:13
    direct access to God through the Holy
  • 00:34:15
    Spirit you cannot be separated from the
  • 00:34:17
    love of God you are a citizen of Heaven
  • 00:34:20
    you've been established anointed and
  • 00:34:22
    sealed by God you can be confident in
  • 00:34:25
    this that the good work he's started in
  • 00:34:27
    you he will bring to completion you are
  • 00:34:30
    God's workmanship you are seated with
  • 00:34:32
    Christ in Heavenly places and you can do
  • 00:34:36
    all things through Christ who gives you
  • 00:34:39
    strength in Jesus mighty name come on
  • 00:34:42
    church say
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    amen amen amen
  • 00:34:47
    amen you are who God says you
  • 00:34:51
    are act like
  • 00:34:54
    that Lord Jesus would you help us to get
  • 00:34:56
    our identity in view Every Lie of the
  • 00:34:59
    enemy that has tried to convince us
  • 00:35:01
    otherwise I pray that you would quiet
  • 00:35:04
    that voice and that your voice would be
  • 00:35:06
    loud in our ears this week and then give
  • 00:35:09
    us the courage and the boldness to
  • 00:35:11
    behave in a way to think in a way to
  • 00:35:14
    choose and make decisions in a way that
  • 00:35:17
    lines up with who you say we are in
  • 00:35:20
    Jesus name amen
  • 00:35:23
    [Applause]
  • 00:35:25
    am
  • 00:35:28
    would you stand to your feet all over
  • 00:35:30
    this place
  • 00:35:31
    today can you show your appreciation to
  • 00:35:34
    Priscilla Shire for that
  • 00:35:36
    [Applause]
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    [Music]
  • 00:35:42
    [Applause]
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    word hear me when I tell
  • 00:35:48
    you all of us need to be
  • 00:35:51
    reminded of who we
  • 00:35:53
    are whether you're just new to this
  • 00:35:55
    thing called
  • 00:35:57
    Christianity whether you haven't even
  • 00:35:59
    surrendered your life to him or whether
  • 00:36:01
    you've been walking with the Lord for
  • 00:36:02
    years every single one of us need to be
  • 00:36:06
    reminded this is who I
  • 00:36:08
    am I'm not my mistakes I'm not my
  • 00:36:12
    circumstances I am who God says that I
  • 00:36:14
    am I'm just going to ask in this moment
  • 00:36:17
    this is such a necessary word for us
  • 00:36:21
    right now but I'm ask every head be
  • 00:36:24
    bowed and eyes be closed there's some of
  • 00:36:26
    you
  • 00:36:28
    who you've been in the wine
  • 00:36:31
    press you didn't want to be
  • 00:36:34
    found but God orchestrated and ordained
  • 00:36:37
    this moment for you to hear this message
  • 00:36:40
    today it's time to stop
  • 00:36:43
    running because your father's found
  • 00:36:46
    you and he's not declaring over you all
  • 00:36:49
    your mistakes and all the things that
  • 00:36:51
    you've done he's declaring over you who
  • 00:36:53
    you truly
  • 00:36:55
    are and so in this moment with heads
  • 00:36:57
    bound and eyes closed all over this
  • 00:37:00
    opera house I want to give somebody even
  • 00:37:02
    if it's just one person here me one
  • 00:37:06
    person would be worth
  • 00:37:08
    it God got a hold of Gideon and a nation
  • 00:37:11
    was
  • 00:37:12
    transformed so even if it's just one
  • 00:37:15
    today the things that are connected to
  • 00:37:17
    you it would be so worth it but if you
  • 00:37:20
    hear today and you say Pastor Robert I
  • 00:37:22
    need to surrender my life to this
  • 00:37:24
    savior his name is Jesus
  • 00:37:27
    I'm tired of doing life on my own I'm
  • 00:37:29
    tired of being defined by my
  • 00:37:33
    behavior this is the beauty of the
  • 00:37:36
    Gospel the gospel is not do do do do do
  • 00:37:39
    so you can become something no the
  • 00:37:41
    gospel says it has been done and because
  • 00:37:43
    of what Jesus did his finished work on
  • 00:37:46
    the
  • 00:37:47
    cross you have a new
  • 00:37:49
    identity now come into alignment with it
  • 00:37:53
    so what heads bowed and eyes closed
  • 00:37:54
    today if you've never surrendered your
  • 00:37:56
    life to Jesus Jesus or maybe there's a
  • 00:37:58
    season you were walking with God but
  • 00:38:00
    your heart's gotten cold and you've
  • 00:38:02
    drawn away and even now you hear your
  • 00:38:04
    father saying come back home if that's
  • 00:38:07
    you would you do me a favor would you
  • 00:38:09
    just lift up your hand just high enough
  • 00:38:11
    and long enough to where I could see it
  • 00:38:12
    today I want to give you an opportunity
  • 00:38:14
    to respond thank you thank you I see
  • 00:38:16
    those hands all over this place today
  • 00:38:19
    thank you God anybody else I'm looking
  • 00:38:21
    up in the balcony sections thank you
  • 00:38:24
    yeah thank you for responding for when
  • 00:38:27
    God speaks to you Hallelujah I want us
  • 00:38:29
    to pray this prayer we're going to pray
  • 00:38:31
    it as one big family after we pray this
  • 00:38:34
    prayer if you want personal prayer our
  • 00:38:35
    prayer team is just going to hang out
  • 00:38:37
    here in the front and we'd be happy to
  • 00:38:38
    pray with you but I want you to make
  • 00:38:40
    this declaration
  • 00:38:43
    today in fact let's all do it we'll say
  • 00:38:46
    it as one big family but especially
  • 00:38:47
    those of you who responded would you say
  • 00:38:49
    this from your heart say
  • 00:38:51
    Jesus I need
  • 00:38:53
    you thank you so much for being willing
  • 00:38:57
    to find
  • 00:38:59
    me even though I was
  • 00:39:01
    hiding Jesus I
  • 00:39:04
    know I cannot do
  • 00:39:06
    life without you I need
  • 00:39:10
    you forgive me of my
  • 00:39:13
    sin make me brand
  • 00:39:16
    new Jesus today I confess with my mouth
  • 00:39:21
    and I believe in my heart that you are
  • 00:39:24
    the son of God
  • 00:39:26
    you died for me and you're coming back
  • 00:39:29
    for me but until that
  • 00:39:32
    day I will walk in my
  • 00:39:36
    true
  • 00:39:38
    identity in Jesus name amen amen amen if
  • 00:39:43
    you meant what you prayed would you give
  • 00:39:46
    Jesus praise today oh come on you could
  • 00:39:49
    do a little bit better than
  • 00:39:50
    that I see some people that are about to
  • 00:39:53
    walk in their true identity you might
  • 00:39:56
    have to reintroduce yourself to some
  • 00:39:58
    people because they knew you who you
  • 00:40:00
    were they don't know you who you're
  • 00:40:02
    going to be
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