Identity Crisis results in chaos, confusion and pain. As a result of our sin we are in endless arrays of identity crisis, and sin separates man from God. Doesn't matter who you are. Sin--> Identity Crisis--> Confusing Chaotic Pain-->Sin. The wages of sin is naturally death. How bad does it really have to get before the souls of men repent of their own personal pride before Jesus? He is Deity. The Deity. In our humanity we either choose to act out in pride or we respond in humility to the Holy Spirit when we experience pain. We've done both. We choose to get more angry or more gentle. We choose to get more perverted or more pure. We choose to get more depressed or more peaceful. Critical or gracious. Repentant or hard hearted. If you don't know your Bible, get into it and read it. It leads you to the Salvation of God FOR YOU. You identify with it, because it finds you! It strengthens a person to successfully deal with the inevitable crisis, chaos of the heart, and battles in the mind. The battles indeed are difficult to overcome, but the Bible reveals that your purpose in this world is to get right with God through Jesus Christ. Jesus understands the battle within our flesh. He came and did win that battle for us. He took responsibility for it because he knows. To know the Word is to survive these times with great assurance, confidence and peace. Even when persecuted, martyred, or hated. Revelation 13 is on the cusps of becoming a reality, and it terrified the Prophets of God when they saw the vision. "Nations without borders!" are what the World Leaders are touting and working toward; A Beast System with its mark, and its Anti-Christ. What II Peter warns of and encourages us to do is upon us. Isn't it ironic that the Devil and those who follow him call 2016 "The Year of Light." The Devil is working, and his obvious method is Order out of Chaos; To tear down the walls that protect people; To create more confusion in order to REMOVE THE BOUNDARIES so that a New Order can happen. That's the Devils way and it's result is Revelation 13. God called it so we would be ready. Do we remember what he said, "A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down walls." Proverbs 25:28 NLT Name the identity and you'll find great confusion in it today: Marital, Family, Religious, Gender, Sexual, Political. And now Satan shouts, "Let the national and race walls fall down." Your enemy will strip it all away if he can, and that's why he hates Faith in Jesus. He hates it when people find their true identity in Christ. It's the identity that wins when all is said and done. How absolutely amazing is this verse when looking at today's issues: “And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you.” Galatians 3:27-29 NLT. There are so many levels of pain caused by sin in people's lives that people are now giving up on the obvious positions of identity. What is a man? What is a woman? What is a husband or wife? What is a family? What is a community? Additionally, not honoring God's ways result in great suffering and creates a stronghold for the devil to redefine who you are according to lies. Do you believe the lies? BUT the good news is that Jesus has shattered the lies, and he's already won the identity battles for us. Read that verse again. Your nationality, race, religion, gender/sexuality etc. does not define who you are. Jesus Defines You!
The AWESOMENESS of God is seen when you finally realize that He will not force you to accept him, just like he will not force you to reject him. He has offered himself to all who will receive him amidst humanities own sinful chaos. The Righteous will become more Righteous and the Wicked will become more Wicked. Remember Stephen? As he was being murdered for sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ he was asking God to forgive his murderers!! And Jesus revealed himself to Stephen in the clouds. Then he went to eternal life!!!!
““For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. “There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son. And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants. ””
John 3:16-21 NLT
Your Identity in Christ is what Jesus says about you! Get your Bible and look these up.
Matthew 5:14
Luke 10:17-20
John 15:1,5
Romans 8:1
Romans 8:17
Romans 8:35-39
1 Corinthians 3:16; 6:19
1 Corinthians 6:17
1 Corinthians 12:27
Ephesians 5:30
2 Corinthians 5:17
2 Corinthians 5:18-19
2 Corinthians 5:21
Galatians 3:26, 28
Galatians 4:6
Galatians 4:7
Ephesians 1:1
1 Corinthians 1:2
Philippians 1:1
Colossians 1:2
Ephesians 1:19-23; 2:5-6
Ephesians 2:10
Ephesians 2:19
Ephesians 6:10-20
Colossians 3:3
Colossians 3:4
Colossians 3:12
1 Thessalonians 1:4
Hebrews 3:1
Hebrews 3:14
1 Peter 2:5
1 Peter 2:9-10
1 Peter 2:11
1 Peter 5:8
1 John 3:1-2
1 John 5:18
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