Priscilla Shirer I Say My Name I Social Dallas
Résumé
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.
A retenir
- 🌟 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.
Chronologie
- 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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Questions fréquemment posées
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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- 00:00:00some of you know that I grew up right
- 00:00:01here in the Dallas Fort Worth area still
- 00:00:03live just you know around the corner a
- 00:00:05little bit from here still attend attend
- 00:00:08the exact same church that my parents
- 00:00:10started when I was one year old and so
- 00:00:13Dallas is my home I went to Duncanville
- 00:00:16High School graduated from there you
- 00:00:18know in the 1900s way back in the
- 00:00:21day I was of the four of us the
- 00:00:24mischievous child I was the one that
- 00:00:26gave my parents a run for their money
- 00:00:29you know how it's all always that one
- 00:00:31that you're wondering whether or not
- 00:00:32they going to turn out okay I was that
- 00:00:34one for my parents I was always getting
- 00:00:36into something always being a little
- 00:00:38mischievous and one of the most
- 00:00:40mischievous things I ever did was when I
- 00:00:42was going into high school at
- 00:00:43Duncanville from kindergarten to 8th
- 00:00:45grade my siblings and I went to this
- 00:00:47little private school that was around
- 00:00:48the corner from our house in doto but um
- 00:00:52for freshman year we transferred over to
- 00:00:54Duncanville and I thought this would be
- 00:00:56a wonderful opportunity to just take on
- 00:00:59a little
- 00:01:00experiment my class at the little
- 00:01:03private school there were about 13 kids
- 00:01:05in my class when I transferred to
- 00:01:07Duncanville High School I went from a
- 00:01:09class of 13 to a class of
- 00:01:12753 that's not the high school
- 00:01:15population that was just the freshman
- 00:01:17class was 753 students so it was a
- 00:01:20complete culture shock to me and a great
- 00:01:22opportunity to experiment I thought when
- 00:01:24I transferred to Duncanville I would
- 00:01:26just give myself a new name that I would
- 00:01:29introduce myself as this new name I just
- 00:01:32picked two initials put them together DK
- 00:01:35I decided my new nickname was going to
- 00:01:37be DK and the experiment was going to be
- 00:01:39that when I went to this new school I
- 00:01:41would introduce myself by this new name
- 00:01:43just to see if it would catch on I had
- 00:01:46one friend Nicole that had grown up in
- 00:01:48the Duncanville school school district
- 00:01:50so she already knew all these people she
- 00:01:52and I were in youth group together at
- 00:01:53oiff Bible Fellowship Church our church
- 00:01:56on the other side of town and so I knew
- 00:01:58I'd probably be hanging out with Nicole
- 00:02:00I let her in on my experiment I said now
- 00:02:02Nicole when we go to school first day
- 00:02:04first week of school and you're
- 00:02:06introducing me around do not call me
- 00:02:08Priscilla just introduce me as DK she
- 00:02:11said girl what I said it's just an
- 00:02:13experiment I just want to see if it's
- 00:02:15going to catch on and to make a long
- 00:02:17story short y'all for the next four
- 00:02:20years of my life everybody called me DK
- 00:02:25everybody in my that were my peer group
- 00:02:27there at Duncanville the teacher ERS the
- 00:02:30counselors the principals everybody even
- 00:02:33people in different high schools as we
- 00:02:35connected with them at football games on
- 00:02:37the Friday nights and all that everybody
- 00:02:39just just thought my name was DK very
- 00:02:42few people if any at all even knew that
- 00:02:45my name was actually Priscilla they
- 00:02:48called me DK to this day if I run across
- 00:02:51somebody in the mall or the grocery
- 00:02:52store or somebody comments on social
- 00:02:54media and says hey DK I know that it's
- 00:02:57somebody that I knew during that season
- 00:02:59of my life those four years because
- 00:03:02everybody called me DK my parents really
- 00:03:04didn't give me a hard time about it they
- 00:03:06were a little bit annoyed you know when
- 00:03:07my athletic uniforms were monogrammed
- 00:03:10with dck on them except Priscilla but
- 00:03:13they didn't say much about it but it all
- 00:03:15came to a head on one day when I got
- 00:03:17sick at school I had a temperature I was
- 00:03:20in the nurses station laying behind a
- 00:03:22little drape they had drawn there I
- 00:03:24remember laying on a little cot and they
- 00:03:26had to call my mom to come pick me up
- 00:03:27from school because of my fever
- 00:03:30and I remember hearing my mom come into
- 00:03:32the nursing station and say to the nurse
- 00:03:35there I am here to pick up Priscilla the
- 00:03:39nurse said
- 00:03:40who I'm here to pick up Priscilla I
- 00:03:43heard them going back and forth just for
- 00:03:45a second when the nurse said well we
- 00:03:46have a dck here and Mom said that's her
- 00:03:49give me that girl and let me take her
- 00:03:50home went home mom kind of nursed me
- 00:03:53back to health and then when I felt
- 00:03:55better I will never forget my mother
- 00:03:58looking at me squarely in my eyes and
- 00:04:00saying now Priscilla I have not minded
- 00:04:03your father and I have not minded this
- 00:04:05whole little experiment that you've
- 00:04:06taken on the last few years but she said
- 00:04:08I do want to be clear about something it
- 00:04:10was my senior year at the time she said
- 00:04:13I want to be clear about the fact that
- 00:04:14in a few months there's going to be a
- 00:04:16ceremony a graduation and at that
- 00:04:19ceremony they're going to hand you a
- 00:04:21very important document and she said let
- 00:04:23me be clear when they hand you that
- 00:04:25diploma there better not be a d or a k
- 00:04:28anywhere on that piece of paper and she
- 00:04:31said to me the reason why is because I I
- 00:04:33really don't care what other people call
- 00:04:35you I don't care how many other people
- 00:04:38call you that and I don't even care
- 00:04:40Priscilla what you call yourself there's
- 00:04:43only one or two me and your father who
- 00:04:46have the right and the authority to give
- 00:04:49you your name you are not what other
- 00:04:52people call you you are not even what
- 00:04:55you've called
- 00:04:57yourself only the one who created you
- 00:04:59has the right and the author authority
- 00:05:02to identify you so for a few minutes
- 00:05:05this morning I just came to remind you
- 00:05:08what your name is I came to remind you
- 00:05:11who you are listen to me brothers and
- 00:05:14sisters you are not defined by your past
- 00:05:18you are not defined by your behaviors
- 00:05:21you are not defined by your failures you
- 00:05:24are not defined by your struggles you
- 00:05:27are not defined by your feelings you are
- 00:05:29not defined by your circumstances you
- 00:05:32are not defined by the here today gone
- 00:05:34tomorrow false ideologies and water down
- 00:05:37philosophies of our current culture you
- 00:05:39are who God says you
- 00:05:42are it don't matter what other folks
- 00:05:46have been calling you and it doesn't
- 00:05:48even matter what you've chosen to call
- 00:05:50yourself there's only one who has the
- 00:05:53authority to identify you and it's the
- 00:05:55one who gave life to you others aren't
- 00:05:58qualified to to name you circumstances
- 00:06:00aren't powerful enough to Define you
- 00:06:03your story may have hurt you but it does
- 00:06:06not shape the totality of who you are
- 00:06:09you are who God says you are and he says
- 00:06:12you're a chosen race you're a royal
- 00:06:14priesthood you're a person who has been
- 00:06:17redeemed and chosen adopted and
- 00:06:19qualified you are not a mistake you are
- 00:06:22not an afterthought you are not a
- 00:06:24liability you are a temple of the holy
- 00:06:28spirit of God and the value he has
- 00:06:30placed on you means you are
- 00:06:35enough God loves Dallas yes God loves
- 00:06:40you he made you in His image both
- 00:06:46physically and in your personality the
- 00:06:48strengths and the weaknesses all of it
- 00:06:50is an expression of the creative genius
- 00:06:53of almighty God and when you surrender
- 00:06:56your whole self fully and completely to
- 00:06:59him him he loves and Val values you
- 00:07:01enough that he actually takes up
- 00:07:03residence in you he makes you his
- 00:07:06dwelling place so you become a temple of
- 00:07:08almighty God and that means you're an
- 00:07:12overcomer that's who you are I don't
- 00:07:16know who has lied to you up until this
- 00:07:18point but it is important that you and I
- 00:07:21get our identity in him in full View and
- 00:07:25the reason why y'all is because whether
- 00:07:27or not you walk in Victory is directly
- 00:07:30correlated to what you believe to be
- 00:07:32true about yourself you will either live
- 00:07:35up to or you will live down to whatever
- 00:07:39you believe to be true about yourself so
- 00:07:42I want to talk to you about your
- 00:07:44identity identity is critical in fact
- 00:07:47it's one of the major themes that you'll
- 00:07:48see all throughout the Old Testament and
- 00:07:51all throughout the New Testament you see
- 00:07:53this theme of identity that keeps coming
- 00:07:55up over and over again God showing up to
- 00:07:58get people's identity re-calibrated so
- 00:08:01that they will begin to live according
- 00:08:04and in alignment with what he is said to
- 00:08:06be true about them one of the most
- 00:08:08notable places that we see this in
- 00:08:10scripture the most notable relationship
- 00:08:12where we can see him recalibrating
- 00:08:15people's identity is with the children
- 00:08:17of Israel throughout the Old Testament
- 00:08:18because after 400 years of slavery in
- 00:08:21Egypt under Pharaoh they had developed
- 00:08:24the mindset and perspective of living
- 00:08:27like slaves and so even after 10
- 00:08:29miraculous plagues and guiding them
- 00:08:31miraculously through the Wilderness in
- 00:08:33fact those 40 years were about their
- 00:08:36identity in the wilderness because he
- 00:08:38had freed them from Egypt but it would
- 00:08:40take 40 Years of wilderness wondering
- 00:08:42wonderings to make sure that Egypt was
- 00:08:45now out of them they had been freed out
- 00:08:48of Egypt but Egypt needed to be detached
- 00:08:51from them because what good is it to be
- 00:08:54legally free if you still living like a
- 00:08:57slave what good is it to be free free
- 00:08:59when you're still thinking like and
- 00:09:01operating like and deciding like and
- 00:09:03reacting like and relating to other
- 00:09:05people like you are not free making
- 00:09:08decisions out of scarcity and lack and
- 00:09:10fear and intimidation and so Yahweh
- 00:09:13spends 40 years re-calibrating their
- 00:09:16identity reminding them you are who I
- 00:09:19say you are you ain't this you're this
- 00:09:22start acting like this so the children
- 00:09:26of Israel they come out of wilderness
- 00:09:28one W ings they come into the promised
- 00:09:31land and the Book of Judges is where you
- 00:09:33and I are going to meet them today in
- 00:09:35Judges chapter 6 if you have your copy
- 00:09:38of the script you know if you still use
- 00:09:39a old school paper Bible like I do you
- 00:09:42can flip over to Judges chapter 6 or
- 00:09:44your iPhone your iPad any manner of
- 00:09:46iness will get you there and let me tell
- 00:09:48you while you're turning there the
- 00:09:50Judges chapter 6 is all about the
- 00:09:52children of Israel being or the Book of
- 00:09:54Judges is being already in Canaan they
- 00:09:57already come out of Egypt now they've
- 00:09:59already been through the Wilderness they
- 00:10:00are now in the land flowing with milk
- 00:10:02and honey but while they are there
- 00:10:05idolatry is introduced to the children
- 00:10:07of Israel idolatry is always a threat to
- 00:10:11your identity it will always begin to
- 00:10:13make you question whether or not he is
- 00:10:16who he says he is and that you are who
- 00:10:18God says you are the whole Book of
- 00:10:20Judges it's not about the children of
- 00:10:22Israel turning their backs completely on
- 00:10:24the one true God it is about the people
- 00:10:27of God stationing their worship of Idols
- 00:10:30alongside their worship of the one true
- 00:10:32God and listen to me it's this duplicity
- 00:10:35of the people of God that caused such a
- 00:10:38Decay throughout the society in the Book
- 00:10:40of Judges that by the time you get to
- 00:10:42the last line of the Book of Judges if
- 00:10:43you were to read it you'll see the last
- 00:10:46line says everybody was doing what was
- 00:10:49right in their own eyes y'all if that
- 00:10:52don't sound like America in the year
- 00:10:542023 I don't know what does because when
- 00:10:57your identity is d distorted truth is
- 00:11:00distorted and the entire culture
- 00:11:04decays and so they open themselves up to
- 00:11:06enemy attack the Book of Judges is them
- 00:11:08living in the land of promise but still
- 00:11:10still experiencing and exposing
- 00:11:13themselves to enemy attack on all sides
- 00:11:15they have been ravaged by the midianites
- 00:11:18who have come to them seven consecutive
- 00:11:20years pillaging their towns burning down
- 00:11:22their homes they've had to escape their
- 00:11:24cities for fear running in fear from
- 00:11:27enemies and live on the side of
- 00:11:29mountains and in caves so that they can
- 00:11:31hide themselves from the approaching and
- 00:11:34marauding enemies and because their
- 00:11:37identity is not in view they expose
- 00:11:39themselves to enemy attack but
- 00:11:41everything is about to change on one day
- 00:11:44when God comes to remind one person of
- 00:11:48who they really are Judges 6: 11 and 12
- 00:11:53then the angel of the Lord came and he
- 00:11:57sat down under this oak tree that was in
- 00:11:59a town called ofra which belonged to
- 00:12:02joash the
- 00:12:03abrite as his son
- 00:12:07Gideon was beating out wheat in a wine
- 00:12:09press in order to save it from those
- 00:12:12midianites verse 12 and the angel of the
- 00:12:15Lord appeared to him and said to him the
- 00:12:18Lord is with you oh Valiant Warrior
- 00:12:23these are our two verses this morning
- 00:12:24where we're just going to spend a little
- 00:12:26time because the angel of the Lord shows
- 00:12:28up in the of national Calamity and Chaos
- 00:12:31that is written about all throughout the
- 00:12:33Book of Judges he shows up into the
- 00:12:35experience of one man named Gideon to
- 00:12:38remind him who he really is to call out
- 00:12:41of him the behaviors the actions the
- 00:12:44choices that should have been instilled
- 00:12:46in him because his identity was in Clear
- 00:12:49View he says to him you are a valiant
- 00:12:52Warrior the angel of the Lord shows up
- 00:12:55for this one p purpose to remind one
- 00:12:58person who they really are the whole
- 00:13:01nation is in Decay but he doesn't show
- 00:13:03up on a national level he doesn't show
- 00:13:06up on a communal level he shows up to
- 00:13:09one person that's how critical this
- 00:13:12issue of identity was that the angel of
- 00:13:15the Lord showed up to one individual to
- 00:13:17remind him about his identity let me
- 00:13:20tell you why this Sunday morning is so
- 00:13:22important let me tell you why the reason
- 00:13:24why you fought through all that traffic
- 00:13:26this morning but the Lord still made it
- 00:13:28to where you could get in this room and
- 00:13:30that you could sit in these seats let me
- 00:13:32tell you why teenager that you were
- 00:13:34frustrated this morning that your mama
- 00:13:35and then woke you up and made you come
- 00:13:37to church let me tell you the reason why
- 00:13:40is not so that you could just sit in a
- 00:13:41building on a Sunday morning it's
- 00:13:43because the angel of the lord The Hound
- 00:13:45of Heaven came looking for you this
- 00:13:47morning to remind one person you brother
- 00:13:52or sister have your spiritual ears whole
- 00:13:55open to hear God say you are who I say
- 00:13:58you are now act like that not the way
- 00:14:01you feel not what has happened to you
- 00:14:04not your past behaviors don't align with
- 00:14:06that align your whole self with who I
- 00:14:09have declared you to be the angel of the
- 00:14:12Lord he comes to tell one person who he
- 00:14:16is the Angel of the Lord anytime you see
- 00:14:20this phrase you need to know what's
- 00:14:21happening Scholars call uh this the
- 00:14:25great presence capital g capital P the
- 00:14:28Great great presence of Israelite
- 00:14:30history because whenever you see the
- 00:14:32phrase the angel of the Lord in the Old
- 00:14:34Testament you need to know this ain't no
- 00:14:36regular Angel we're not talking about
- 00:14:38Gabriel and Michael and them the angel
- 00:14:41of the Lord was the pre-incarnate Jesus
- 00:14:43Christ that basically before Jesus put
- 00:14:46on flesh and came in the New Testament
- 00:14:48he was already already showing up in the
- 00:14:50Old Testament it's called a theophany a
- 00:14:53god appearance when God himself would
- 00:14:56step out of Heaven onto the landscape of
- 00:14:58Earth and he would intervene with the
- 00:15:00regular details of a regular ordinary
- 00:15:03life so that he could shift the
- 00:15:05trajectory not only of that life but of
- 00:15:07everything and everybody attached to
- 00:15:09that life so the angel of the Lord kept
- 00:15:12showing up over and over and over again
- 00:15:14and if I had time this morning y'all
- 00:15:16we'd spend a whole hour just talking
- 00:15:18about the angel of the Lord because you
- 00:15:20need to know that the fact that the god
- 00:15:22of the universe would step onto the
- 00:15:24landscape of earth that is never
- 00:15:26something that we should hear and let it
- 00:15:28roll off our shoulders as if it's no big
- 00:15:30deal because this is God we're talking
- 00:15:33about the one who right now while we're
- 00:15:35sitting in this room is controlling the
- 00:15:38throws of the entire universe the one
- 00:15:40who while we're sitting right here in
- 00:15:42this room he's the one that made sure
- 00:15:44that the sun rose this morning and he's
- 00:15:46going to hold it in place all day long
- 00:15:49till it swaps places with the moon later
- 00:15:51on tonight this is God we're talking
- 00:15:54about the one who's going to hang every
- 00:15:56single star in the sky and he's going to
- 00:15:58know every single one of their names
- 00:16:00tonight and every single one of their
- 00:16:02numbers this is God we're talking about
- 00:16:04the one who's controlling the throws of
- 00:16:06the galaxies and neighborhoods in the
- 00:16:09galaxies that scientists don't even yet
- 00:16:12know exist he's the one controlling all
- 00:16:15of that and in the midst of all of that
- 00:16:17he stopped by on this Sunday morning to
- 00:16:20come see about
- 00:16:23you that's a big
- 00:16:26deal that we serve a god
- 00:16:29that great who is also that
- 00:16:32good that that he cares that much about
- 00:16:36you that that that he made sure on the
- 00:16:39calendar of your life you were here and
- 00:16:42I got to be here on this Sunday morning
- 00:16:44so that he could move Heaven and Earth
- 00:16:46to just whisper to your heart I got
- 00:16:51you the angel of the Lord kept showing
- 00:16:53up all throughout the Old Testament just
- 00:16:55like this for one person on a regular
- 00:16:57ordinary day just to say I got you just
- 00:17:00to remind them who they were Genesis
- 00:17:03chapter 16 there's a lady named Hagar
- 00:17:06Hagar has a past she's been misused and
- 00:17:09abused by people she was supposed to be
- 00:17:11able to
- 00:17:12trust Abraham and Sarah and then they
- 00:17:15discard her they discard her out into a
- 00:17:17Wilderness with her newborn son the
- 00:17:18baby's crying she has no food for the
- 00:17:21baby her entire future is in Jeopardy
- 00:17:24she is crying a river of tears that has
- 00:17:26blurred her vision so that she can
- 00:17:27barely see what's in front of her and in
- 00:17:30the midst of her Devastation and in the
- 00:17:32midst of her fear and her concern about
- 00:17:34her future after being misused and
- 00:17:36abused by people she was supposed to be
- 00:17:38able to trust the angel of the Lord
- 00:17:40shows up in Genesis chapter 16 and says
- 00:17:43to Hagar let me tell you who you are you
- 00:17:48are not what they did to you it happened
- 00:17:52but that does not define you you still
- 00:17:55are Hagar who I say you are so maybe
- 00:17:58you're like Gideon that the midianites
- 00:18:00the enemy the circumstances of your life
- 00:18:02have closed in on you and you find
- 00:18:04yourself sitting in a situation that
- 00:18:06that is because of the results of the
- 00:18:10circumstances that are around you or
- 00:18:11maybe you're like Hagar that really it's
- 00:18:13not your circumstances that have done it
- 00:18:15to you it's other folk that have done it
- 00:18:17to you that people you were supposed to
- 00:18:19be able to trust the folks you were
- 00:18:21supposed to be able to rely on they've
- 00:18:23betrayed you they've abandoned you and
- 00:18:25they've set you on a path the likes of
- 00:18:27which you can't even believe leave
- 00:18:28whether you're Gideon or whether you're
- 00:18:30Hagar this morning the angel of the Lord
- 00:18:32has come looking for you he can find you
- 00:18:34wherever you are or maybe you're not
- 00:18:36Gideon or Hagar maybe you're Moses
- 00:18:39because in Exodus chapter 3 he's sitting
- 00:18:41in a desert of his own making he did it
- 00:18:44to
- 00:18:45himself for Moses it was not that the
- 00:18:48circumstances did it and it wasn't
- 00:18:50really that other folks did it it's
- 00:18:51because he made a choice he made a
- 00:18:53decision out of sin and anger he made a
- 00:18:56choice that put him into this desert
- 00:18:58where now he is tending sheep for 40
- 00:19:01young long years Moses had been raised
- 00:19:04as The Prince of Egypt so shepherding is
- 00:19:07a job that is so below his pay grade and
- 00:19:09beneath his educational level but while
- 00:19:12he is in that desert of his own making
- 00:19:16one day a bush starts burning and the
- 00:19:19bush is burning but it's not consumed so
- 00:19:22he sees something Supernatural in the
- 00:19:24bush and when he stops by to see about
- 00:19:25this bush he realizes that the of the
- 00:19:28Lord is there and the angel of the Lord
- 00:19:31has shown up in Moses's circumstances to
- 00:19:33remind him you are not what has happened
- 00:19:36to you you are not what you did you are
- 00:19:39not your behaviors you still are Moses
- 00:19:43exactly who I say you are and the
- 00:19:46reality is that some of us aren't Gideon
- 00:19:48circumstances didn't do it to us some of
- 00:19:50us aren't Hagar other folks didn't do it
- 00:19:52to us the reality is if we had time for
- 00:19:54Testimony service most of us would
- 00:19:57recognize we did it to our ourselves
- 00:19:59because we can look back and realize
- 00:20:01there's a decision we made that put us
- 00:20:03in this desert there's a choice we made
- 00:20:05there's a relationship we allow there's
- 00:20:07a path we walk down I don't know about
- 00:20:09y'all but there's a whole season of my
- 00:20:11life I look back on and I don't even
- 00:20:13recognize that crazy person back there
- 00:20:15anybody can I get a
- 00:20:17witness where you look back and you
- 00:20:19realize you can't believe you made those
- 00:20:21choices or walked with those people or
- 00:20:23allowed that path or chose and made
- 00:20:26those kinds of decisions and you re
- 00:20:28recognize had it not been for the grace
- 00:20:30of God had it not been for the goodness
- 00:20:33of God delivering us when we were not in
- 00:20:35our right minds and setting us on a
- 00:20:38brand new path reminding us that we are
- 00:20:41not what we
- 00:20:42did we are who God says we are so he
- 00:20:46showed up for Moses and he shows up for
- 00:20:49you he shows up for Hagar and he shows
- 00:20:51up for you and he shows up for
- 00:20:54Gideon and he says Gideon you're a
- 00:20:57valiant Warrior now the author of Judges
- 00:21:00chap 6: 11 and 12 wants you to know
- 00:21:03exactly what Gideon was doing when the
- 00:21:05angel of the Lord showed up it says he's
- 00:21:07beating out wheat but he's doing it in a
- 00:21:10wine press now the reason why that is
- 00:21:13critical because you need to know that
- 00:21:15where grapes were pressed to make wine
- 00:21:18and where wheat was threshed to prepare
- 00:21:20for Harvest were two completely
- 00:21:22different environments threshing wheat
- 00:21:24always took place on the top of a
- 00:21:27hillside in the open air and the reason
- 00:21:30why they needed the open air on the top
- 00:21:32of a hillside where the draft would be
- 00:21:34heavy is because when you would beat out
- 00:21:36wheat it would dislodge this useless
- 00:21:39nutrient called chaff they needed the
- 00:21:42wind to drive the chaff away you'll see
- 00:21:45that figuratively all throughout the Old
- 00:21:47Testament the tra chaff being driven
- 00:21:49Away by the wind wine getting pressed
- 00:21:53happened in a completely different
- 00:21:55environment they didn't want open air
- 00:21:57they needed it to be shaded and damp to
- 00:21:59make sure it was the right environment
- 00:22:01for the grapes to produce what they
- 00:22:03wanted it to produce so that would
- 00:22:05happened at the bottom of a hillside in
- 00:22:07a depression on the side of a rock in a
- 00:22:09shaded damp environment these two things
- 00:22:12happen in completely different Dynamics
- 00:22:14but what we find is them overlapping
- 00:22:17with Gideon Gideon is doing what should
- 00:22:20be done down up high he's doing it down
- 00:22:23low the reason why he is not threshing
- 00:22:26wheat on a Hilltop where it would be
- 00:22:29more convenient and easy and helpful to
- 00:22:31get that chaff D driven away the reason
- 00:22:34why he's in the depression of a rock
- 00:22:36doing it is because if the wind drove
- 00:22:38the chaff away then that chaff the scent
- 00:22:41of it would be delivered right to the
- 00:22:43midianites and the midianites would know
- 00:22:46there was a
- 00:22:47harvest so he's trying the end of verse
- 00:22:5011 says to save it from the midianites
- 00:22:53he doesn't want them to know there's a
- 00:22:55harvest and so y'all he is in the Deep
- 00:22:58oppression of a rock doing this more
- 00:23:00timeconsuming tedious inconvenient job
- 00:23:04he's willing to do it in that
- 00:23:05environment because he's hiding he's
- 00:23:08trying to make sure that he hides from
- 00:23:10these enemies he's walking in fear and
- 00:23:13insecurity and he's hiding in this deep
- 00:23:15depression of a rock he's hiding he's
- 00:23:18trying not to be
- 00:23:20found and in this position where he's
- 00:23:23trying not to be found the angel of the
- 00:23:26Lord comes and finds him
- 00:23:28yeah the reason why this is good news is
- 00:23:31because I need you to know that there
- 00:23:33are some people in your life your
- 00:23:35teenager your young adult child your
- 00:23:38spouse your parent and your heart has
- 00:23:40been broken for them because they've
- 00:23:42been trying not to be found they've been
- 00:23:45running from the arm of God you've been
- 00:23:48asking God to bring them into
- 00:23:49relationship with himself and they just
- 00:23:51running they just are rebelling their
- 00:23:53heart is hard they're stiff necked
- 00:23:55they're refusing to come into
- 00:23:57relationship with him I need you to know
- 00:23:59today that even for your loved ones that
- 00:24:01are trying not to be found the angel of
- 00:24:04the Lord can still come and find
- 00:24:07them and aren't we glad about it that
- 00:24:10that the Hound of Heaven keeps coming to
- 00:24:11look for us because we've all had those
- 00:24:14seasons of our life where honestly we
- 00:24:15were trying not to be found we were
- 00:24:17trying to avoid the voice of God avoid
- 00:24:20the conviction of God go in a different
- 00:24:22direction act like we didn't feel the
- 00:24:23poking and the prodding of God's spirit
- 00:24:26in some area of our life and the reality
- 00:24:28is we have testimony that had it not
- 00:24:30been for the goodness of God the Hound
- 00:24:32of Heaven that would not let us go that
- 00:24:35kept looking for us aren't we grateful
- 00:24:37for his grace and
- 00:24:40mercy so he finds Gideon and he finds up
- 00:24:44even when we're trying not to be found
- 00:24:46and he steps into this scenario where
- 00:24:48Gideon is listen he's currently
- 00:24:52operating in fear and
- 00:24:53insecurity the whole reason he's in the
- 00:24:56wine press is because he's currently
- 00:24:59operating and acting out of fear
- 00:25:02insecurity and
- 00:25:04intimidation and even though he's
- 00:25:07behaving that way God steps in and says
- 00:25:12you are not your
- 00:25:15behavior somebody needs to hear that
- 00:25:17this
- 00:25:18morning what you did last night doesn't
- 00:25:21Define you
- 00:25:23today you are not what has happened to
- 00:25:26you you are not the circumstances that
- 00:25:29are surrounding your life right now they
- 00:25:31are not powerful enough to Define you
- 00:25:34you still are who God says you are God
- 00:25:38shows up to a man who is insecure and
- 00:25:40operating In Fear And he
- 00:25:42says you're a valiant
- 00:25:45Warrior he speaks to him according to
- 00:25:48the truth of his identity not the
- 00:25:50current circumstances of his
- 00:25:52reality he says you are this now act
- 00:25:57like
- 00:25:58that I do have three sons 21 19 and 15
- 00:26:03years old I drive my kids bananas I
- 00:26:07think that's a mark of a good
- 00:26:10mother is that they ought to be sick of
- 00:26:12you because you know you have
- 00:26:16rules you have things you want them to
- 00:26:18incorporate into their life that they
- 00:26:20don't value and you say things to them
- 00:26:23that they get tired of hearing mama say
- 00:26:25over and over and over again since they
- 00:26:29were very little I have said pretty much
- 00:26:31the same thing to my boys most every day
- 00:26:34I make them stand in front of me when
- 00:26:36they were at home the older two were in
- 00:26:38college down when they were at home I'd
- 00:26:39make them stand right in front of me and
- 00:26:41i' make them look me in my eyes and they
- 00:26:42would have the nerve to sometimes slump
- 00:26:44their shoulders over and sometimes they
- 00:26:46would look at me and if they were real
- 00:26:48bold and Brazen they might actually roll
- 00:26:50their eyes not
- 00:26:53today and I would say to those boys no
- 00:26:55no no look at me and listen to me and I
- 00:26:57would look them squarely in their eyes
- 00:26:59and I would say you are a man of
- 00:27:02integrity honesty and character you will
- 00:27:05love the Lord your God with all your
- 00:27:07heart with all your soul and with all
- 00:27:09your strength you will put on the full
- 00:27:11armor of God so that you can stand firm
- 00:27:13against the schemes of the enemy you are
- 00:27:15a leader you are not a follower you are
- 00:27:17the head you are not the tail you are
- 00:27:20above you are not beneath and the
- 00:27:22Praises of God will always be in your
- 00:27:24mouth and you will rise up and be a
- 00:27:27mighty warrior in the kingdom of God or
- 00:27:29I will spank
- 00:27:31[Music]
- 00:27:34you they' kind of go oh man I still text
- 00:27:37it to my boys a lot throughout the week
- 00:27:39I will text it to them I'll say say this
- 00:27:41out loud today and I don't know whether
- 00:27:43they do or not but I'm going to text it
- 00:27:44to them I'm going to keep feeding it to
- 00:27:46them and I knew it was getting into them
- 00:27:48because every now and then when I will
- 00:27:50say it to them I would tell them you
- 00:27:52finish it what what what's the rest of
- 00:27:53this statement and they go I'm a man of
- 00:27:55integrity character and honesty I will
- 00:27:57love the Lord my God with all my heart
- 00:27:59and all my strength but even with the
- 00:28:01attitude what it tells me is that you're
- 00:28:03hearing me and it's getting in
- 00:28:08you the reason why I have made it my
- 00:28:12business to say this to my boys is not
- 00:28:15because their behavior always lines up
- 00:28:17with it it's because I'm trying to get
- 00:28:20them to behave in a way that lines up
- 00:28:22with their identity this is who I say
- 00:28:25you are God says you are now act like
- 00:28:28that think like that react like that
- 00:28:31make decisions like
- 00:28:33that can you think of how our lives
- 00:28:37would be
- 00:28:38transformed if we started acting not
- 00:28:41according to the way we
- 00:28:43feel but according to what God says is
- 00:28:46true can you imagine what relationships
- 00:28:49we wouldn't even
- 00:28:51entertain if we believed what God said
- 00:28:54to be true about us can you imagine how
- 00:28:57your reaction to that coworker would be
- 00:28:59completely different you would restrain
- 00:29:01yourself cuz you know this is who I am
- 00:29:04can you imagine how more much more we
- 00:29:07would refuse to do things for the
- 00:29:09approval of other people that their
- 00:29:11Applause or their like or their comment
- 00:29:13isn't actually uh important to us that's
- 00:29:16inconsequential to us because I don't
- 00:29:18need your approval the scripture says
- 00:29:20I'm already approved that I'm already
- 00:29:23accepted that I'm already enough that
- 00:29:25I'm already valued I don't need your
- 00:29:27Applause God has already applauded for
- 00:29:30me it changes and transforms the
- 00:29:33entirety of our life where we stop
- 00:29:35operating just based on the way we feel
- 00:29:38in the moment and reacting based on that
- 00:29:40and instead we remind ourselves this is
- 00:29:43who I am so I'm going to rise to that
- 00:29:45standard and behave like that it'll
- 00:29:48transform your life not only will it
- 00:29:51transform your life but if you read
- 00:29:53throughout the rest of Judges chapter 6
- 00:29:56then you will see that immediately after
- 00:29:58Gideon hears from God that he is a
- 00:30:01valiant Warrior he immediately goes back
- 00:30:04home to his father's house and he goes
- 00:30:07into this house that he's been afraid to
- 00:30:09interact with in previous chapters he
- 00:30:11goes back to his father's home he grabs
- 00:30:14all of the idols that were in their home
- 00:30:17and he breaks them one by one over his
- 00:30:19knee changing the trajectory of idolatry
- 00:30:23through the course of his entire family
- 00:30:25in fact the entire family and the entire
- 00:30:29generational line connected to it is
- 00:30:31completely transformed because one
- 00:30:34person gets a hold of their
- 00:30:36identity do you know that there are
- 00:30:38people attached to you who are waiting
- 00:30:40for you to get your identity in view do
- 00:30:43you realize that your sons and your
- 00:30:45daughters your grandsons and your
- 00:30:47granddaughters our great grandchildren
- 00:30:49that we have not even laid eyes on that
- 00:30:52the trajectory of their lives is
- 00:30:54attached to us Gideon getting our
- 00:30:57identity in view so that we can go home
- 00:30:59and say this is who we were but this is
- 00:31:02not who we are anymore that we're
- 00:31:04breaking generational curses and
- 00:31:06Shifting the trajectory of our entire
- 00:31:09family lines because we going to start
- 00:31:11living up to the standard of who God
- 00:31:13says we
- 00:31:14are and then after he transforms his
- 00:31:16whole family Gideon goes into battle
- 00:31:20with this is what he's most notable for
- 00:31:22this is probably why you know Gideon
- 00:31:24because with an army of 300 a little
- 00:31:26meager Army army they go up against
- 00:31:29140,000 midianite soldiers and they
- 00:31:32bring home a victory and the entire
- 00:31:34trajectory of the nation is completely
- 00:31:37turned around because this one guy has
- 00:31:41recalibrated his identity your family is
- 00:31:45not the only thing attached to you
- 00:31:47there's a whole Community attached to
- 00:31:50you y'all there's a whole National
- 00:31:52crisis that we are living in right now
- 00:31:55that is attached to the people of God
- 00:31:57rising up and being who God has called
- 00:31:59us to be if we would just show up with
- 00:32:02our full identity in view who knows how
- 00:32:06the school district attached to you is
- 00:32:07going to change how the work environment
- 00:32:09attached to you is going to change how
- 00:32:11your neighborhood is going to change
- 00:32:13your community group is going to change
- 00:32:15the city the state the whole nation
- 00:32:17transformed because God's people
- 00:32:20remembered who they
- 00:32:22were and so for just a few moments at
- 00:32:27the close of this message I thought I'd
- 00:32:30just take a couple minutes to remind you
- 00:32:34brothers and sisters who you
- 00:32:38are you are a child of God you have
- 00:32:44peace with God the Holy Spirit lives in
- 00:32:48you you have access to God's wisdom you
- 00:32:51are helped by God you are reconciled to
- 00:32:54God you are not condemned by God you are
- 00:32:58justified by God you have Christ
- 00:33:00righteousness you are Christ Ambassador
- 00:33:03you are completely forgiven and you are
- 00:33:05completely free there is therefore no
- 00:33:09condemnation for those of us who are in
- 00:33:11Christ Jesus you are blameless and
- 00:33:13Beyond reproach you are the salt of the
- 00:33:15earth and you are the light of the world
- 00:33:17you are Christ friend you are chosen by
- 00:33:20Christ to bear fruit you are a joint air
- 00:33:23with Christ sharing in his inheritance
- 00:33:25you are united with the Lord you are
- 00:33:28members of Christ's body you are hidden
- 00:33:30in Christ with God you are a child of
- 00:33:33light You Are Holy and you share in
- 00:33:35God's Heavenly calling you are a member
- 00:33:37of a chosen race you're a royal
- 00:33:40priesthood you're a holy nation you're a
- 00:33:42people for God's Own possession created
- 00:33:44to sing the Praises of God you have been
- 00:33:47born of God and the evil one can't even
- 00:33:49touch you you've been rescued by God
- 00:33:52you've been made complete in Christ you
- 00:33:55have not been given a spirit of fear
- 00:33:57but of power and of love and of a sound
- 00:34:00mind you have been given access to great
- 00:34:03and precious Privileges and Promises by
- 00:34:05God your needs are met by God you have
- 00:34:08been sought with a price you've been
- 00:34:10adopted into the family of God you have
- 00:34:13direct access to God through the Holy
- 00:34:15Spirit you cannot be separated from the
- 00:34:17love of God you are a citizen of Heaven
- 00:34:20you've been established anointed and
- 00:34:22sealed by God you can be confident in
- 00:34:25this that the good work he's started in
- 00:34:27you he will bring to completion you are
- 00:34:30God's workmanship you are seated with
- 00:34:32Christ in Heavenly places and you can do
- 00:34:36all things through Christ who gives you
- 00:34:39strength in Jesus mighty name come on
- 00:34:42church say
- 00:34:43amen amen amen
- 00:34:47amen you are who God says you
- 00:34:51are act like
- 00:34:54that Lord Jesus would you help us to get
- 00:34:56our identity in view Every Lie of the
- 00:34:59enemy that has tried to convince us
- 00:35:01otherwise I pray that you would quiet
- 00:35:04that voice and that your voice would be
- 00:35:06loud in our ears this week and then give
- 00:35:09us the courage and the boldness to
- 00:35:11behave in a way to think in a way to
- 00:35:14choose and make decisions in a way that
- 00:35:17lines up with who you say we are in
- 00:35:20Jesus name amen
- 00:35:23[Applause]
- 00:35:25am
- 00:35:28would you stand to your feet all over
- 00:35:30this place
- 00:35:31today can you show your appreciation to
- 00:35:34Priscilla Shire for that
- 00:35:36[Applause]
- 00:35:38[Music]
- 00:35:42[Applause]
- 00:35:45word hear me when I tell
- 00:35:48you all of us need to be
- 00:35:51reminded of who we
- 00:35:53are whether you're just new to this
- 00:35:55thing called
- 00:35:57Christianity whether you haven't even
- 00:35:59surrendered your life to him or whether
- 00:36:01you've been walking with the Lord for
- 00:36:02years every single one of us need to be
- 00:36:06reminded this is who I
- 00:36:08am I'm not my mistakes I'm not my
- 00:36:12circumstances I am who God says that I
- 00:36:14am I'm just going to ask in this moment
- 00:36:17this is such a necessary word for us
- 00:36:21right now but I'm ask every head be
- 00:36:24bowed and eyes be closed there's some of
- 00:36:26you
- 00:36:28who you've been in the wine
- 00:36:31press you didn't want to be
- 00:36:34found but God orchestrated and ordained
- 00:36:37this moment for you to hear this message
- 00:36:40today it's time to stop
- 00:36:43running because your father's found
- 00:36:46you and he's not declaring over you all
- 00:36:49your mistakes and all the things that
- 00:36:51you've done he's declaring over you who
- 00:36:53you truly
- 00:36:55are and so in this moment with heads
- 00:36:57bound and eyes closed all over this
- 00:37:00opera house I want to give somebody even
- 00:37:02if it's just one person here me one
- 00:37:06person would be worth
- 00:37:08it God got a hold of Gideon and a nation
- 00:37:11was
- 00:37:12transformed so even if it's just one
- 00:37:15today the things that are connected to
- 00:37:17you it would be so worth it but if you
- 00:37:20hear today and you say Pastor Robert I
- 00:37:22need to surrender my life to this
- 00:37:24savior his name is Jesus
- 00:37:27I'm tired of doing life on my own I'm
- 00:37:29tired of being defined by my
- 00:37:33behavior this is the beauty of the
- 00:37:36Gospel the gospel is not do do do do do
- 00:37:39so you can become something no the
- 00:37:41gospel says it has been done and because
- 00:37:43of what Jesus did his finished work on
- 00:37:46the
- 00:37:47cross you have a new
- 00:37:49identity now come into alignment with it
- 00:37:53so what heads bowed and eyes closed
- 00:37:54today if you've never surrendered your
- 00:37:56life to Jesus Jesus or maybe there's a
- 00:37:58season you were walking with God but
- 00:38:00your heart's gotten cold and you've
- 00:38:02drawn away and even now you hear your
- 00:38:04father saying come back home if that's
- 00:38:07you would you do me a favor would you
- 00:38:09just lift up your hand just high enough
- 00:38:11and long enough to where I could see it
- 00:38:12today I want to give you an opportunity
- 00:38:14to respond thank you thank you I see
- 00:38:16those hands all over this place today
- 00:38:19thank you God anybody else I'm looking
- 00:38:21up in the balcony sections thank you
- 00:38:24yeah thank you for responding for when
- 00:38:27God speaks to you Hallelujah I want us
- 00:38:29to pray this prayer we're going to pray
- 00:38:31it as one big family after we pray this
- 00:38:34prayer if you want personal prayer our
- 00:38:35prayer team is just going to hang out
- 00:38:37here in the front and we'd be happy to
- 00:38:38pray with you but I want you to make
- 00:38:40this declaration
- 00:38:43today in fact let's all do it we'll say
- 00:38:46it as one big family but especially
- 00:38:47those of you who responded would you say
- 00:38:49this from your heart say
- 00:38:51Jesus I need
- 00:38:53you thank you so much for being willing
- 00:38:57to find
- 00:38:59me even though I was
- 00:39:01hiding Jesus I
- 00:39:04know I cannot do
- 00:39:06life without you I need
- 00:39:10you forgive me of my
- 00:39:13sin make me brand
- 00:39:16new Jesus today I confess with my mouth
- 00:39:21and I believe in my heart that you are
- 00:39:24the son of God
- 00:39:26you died for me and you're coming back
- 00:39:29for me but until that
- 00:39:32day I will walk in my
- 00:39:36true
- 00:39:38identity in Jesus name amen amen amen if
- 00:39:43you meant what you prayed would you give
- 00:39:46Jesus praise today oh come on you could
- 00:39:49do a little bit better than
- 00:39:50that I see some people that are about to
- 00:39:53walk in their true identity you might
- 00:39:56have to reintroduce yourself to some
- 00:39:58people because they knew you who you
- 00:40:00were they don't know you who you're
- 00:40:02going to be
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