The Sermon New Life - New Identity by David McGee
Mar 16, 2014
New Life - New Identity (37:02)
Referenced Scriptures: 2 Corinthians 5:16-18; Hebrews 8:6-13; Deuteronomy 30:19; Psalm 51:10
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2 Corinthians 5:16-18
16) Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
17) Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.
18) But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
Hebrews 8:6-13
6) But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
7) For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
8) For finding fault with them, he said, "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
9) Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they didn‘t continue in my covenant, And I disregarded them," says the Lord.
10) "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be to them a God, And they will be to me a people.
11) They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, Every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,‘ For all will know me, From the least of them to the greatest of them.
12) For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more."
13) In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
Deuteronomy 30:19
19) I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
Psalm 51:10
10) Create in me a clean heart, God. Renew a right spirit within me.
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While this morning 's sermon is new life in Christ and what I write down your something else new new identity that was it in writing on this one. Offender identity and two second Corinthians five seventeen. Read on King James version first. Therefore if any man be in Christ is a new creature, all things are passed away, behold all things are become new. Any anyone who is in Christ is a new creation new creature all things pass away, behold, everything becomes new in the message Bible says because of this decision. We don't evaluate people by what they have or how they look when you look at the Messiah that way. Once I got it all wrong. As you know, we certainly don't look at him that way anymore. Now we look inside and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, a created new. Your life is gone and new life virgins look at it. All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to settle our relationship with each other so as we think about this new life, new identity in a week. I know why was the thing in the concept of new identity often think of the protection services yelled somebody to the witness protection program and data have a new identity. They ship them to a new part of the country. Given new numbers, nasal security numbers and nobody knows they exist because they are a protection program then a new identity. This was the stone upon them by the government. Well, Jesus gives us a new identity, and this this new identity is in his regeneration that we are removed from the inside out renewal or restoration of a body, bodily parts or biological system. But the definition regeneration readable renewal or restoration. Okay, rest tarring us to what we should be before the fall, not before the spring but before the fall in the gardening that before there was a fall before we had become sinful God regenerates renews our life and has us ready change from the inside out name a new identity in this new life is in Christ, it's a new regenerated life for us begins in Christ so regenerated is enabled via divine grace, not human effort. So stop being good start, allowing God to empower you to be good. I'm trying my best not good enough. We want God to enable us and enabled by divine grace, not human effort divinely enabled to change to have a new life that have a restored life and Kathy, I need you come on down. You are the lucky participant. Come on up here and hit it. You never know right. You never know what is going to get into. I have these. I like you put on over here and say these are not I I I specially measured them for her so if you like. Maybe you have to slip up in your shoes. They have put this on okay on course, I want to your foot to get stuck in neck of the sulfite levitated those my brothers that that's the minor, K that my pastor like they have to button place okay one one fall down for several rear, not less. Holidays France now set. You know, while if we pull on them a little bit and am there I fit you ever when we are renewed in Christ our old nature. We don't fan enable nature anymore yet. I said where you used to. God has changed you from the inside out. Regeneration is changed, renewal, and you can't fix these genes by yourself. If you are genes. Genes genetic of the genetic problem with sauce is where human and God designed us to be blessed by him of being his creation a new creation in Christ, and whenever you like in your status should need walk around sleep in the incident, and I fall down. If that isn't that really appropriate, we might all now in a bucket, so it's only forty minutes. The sermon itself off so we find the right look to the Glock forty minutes. We do not hereby new over the now, we look at this then leads to combat our old nature. The whenever we are tempted. I can't think of our testing out my old nature. The elves looked a bit, then our alternate Thursdays. You belong back were you were here. The longer you wear that you weren't stay from taking been saved from this addiction is not playing with the nature and have been saved from that, and God has created the you have been saved from these things I could latch isn't safe from those things I've rescued her. I am rescued her from them. Terrible genes. Guess what God has rescued you from the terrible bluejeans, the terrible genes that don't fit your life. This doesn't fit your life anymore in Christ. New creation. You are a new creature, and your old life doesn't fit you have a new life looks much better than it looks much better in your new life fits who God created you to be. This is what you're fallen nature tries to make you that it doesn't fit anymore. God has made you knew so reminiscing old new genes, no blue jeans think it, so it doesn't fit anymore. Our nature doesn't fit the all nature doesn't fit so I like and I like the idea of enable know we all got to have a negative concept of enablers and enabler as someone like someone has an addiction arm often given as a person who excessively drink that someone in the house or someone's excessively and somewhat excessively abusive about your abusive. That's excessive. As someone who is abusive, something outside about how that there can be an enabler someone enables that person to continue on in their bad habit. Well, God enables us to continue on into good things that God has good things in store for us for our life, and he wants that good. He wants to enable us for the good to come into our lives and the guide comes by the ability to choose, choose correctly what we're going to do to make something possible. God enables us to make something possible to make it possible and a practical, easy way if US ninety, early drafts a hundred people you think faith in God is practical and easy. I'm a writer and if they guess I believe faith is practical and easy as no takers on this while about God enables me to be practical and easy in my life, the life is not a burden. God is very practical. Our faith is a very practical faith. It is a surrounds the nature of God, and it surrounds us. I've used this story, three times a day. So for for those you don't haven't heard it. This is without the others. Those things started years ago there was a person nine. New seat. She is the person had fallen and broken her and I have to my symbol. What happened and she said. Pushed me when it's all okay if I don't, when God knocks you off your feet. He did not solve unknown road farces and so on so your eyes is okay, got pushed you got was just one of our stereo fell down. Firstly okay, so we talked and visited for a while and then I ask you what is it you would like for me to pray about it. She's as well. Pray that God would heal me check is something wrong with the story. What kind of a godly people. First, let's meet out so they genuinely know what you that is a very impractical. God is very impractical concept of God but God is an enabler in the good way. He makes something possible to make something possible to make something practical that enables us to provide with the means or opportunity to provide with training, brought by his word is training us to see what our old nature is like violence only what the new nature to the distance barely fits but& but the nature of the afternoon as we shall beautifully illustrated by Kathy that death and able to have this new nature that take changes us into something that God wants us to be before we were in the fall, so he provides the means provides the opportunity provides the training that enables his people to live so we are divinely enabled through the word God given us his word is given us the opportunity to change from the inside out. Psalm fifty one ten create in me a clean heart and oh God, and renew a right spirit within me. God is creating. We are asking him to create creative block create a minute sweetheart renew a right spirit. What does a clean heart looked like one dozen white spirits look like love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, neatness, kindness, long-suffering right spirit. That's the spirit that the characteristic of God, so the characteristic of God becomes part of who we are. God enables us to see and understand and participate in Hebrews chapter eight and its verses six through thirteen guys picked up to leave. It says God is writing out his plan carving it on the lining of our hearts. God is wiping out his plan God has a plan for God has a purpose for us and then the next one of the other verses in that section says they will get to know me meeting God that will get to know me by being kindly forgive with the slate of their sins for ever wiped clean so the the new life. The new identity that we have in Christ is one of his regular fund the tables of our hearts, and that it is one that is kindly forgiven the beatings will continue until the attitude changes. That's not kindly forgiven that will forgive and kindly forgiven is the love of God shed of Reinhardt covered over in our hearts to forgive us, so new life in Christ, God has given us a new identity and you know what, if someone physically went from this down to the size of our Kassie there we walked right by them and not know the right stuff. I went from this to a hundred pounds. You go while I know him anymore. Did you wonder the devils out looking for the old you. You can find you why does you'll look like that anymore. Now he knows our nature. Another related videos are we good, but just think about this. We all fall into the same tribes were used to because revenue nature, a new nature. This created in the image of God. And when we are created in the image of God. Evil has a way of dislike you can see how I was the Jesus Donelan, they were near him. So, when God will he look like Christ forgiven love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness. Make this kindness, long-suffering, when we have a right spirit, and we have Christ in our life. The devil sees Christ before he sees us can't find them know the kind of look like that anymore and that I joke about the lady probably good, but they look elegant F late late walk down the hospital and to the pretty good. She got hit by a bus. The data set all costs does the I'm not leaving the ones I like the Hamas leadership by Boston's goes back into his critical care she dies goes them shows up at the pearly gates, St. Peter says, with no Mary's and here's enabling Mary the cook is a marry shows up in heaven and figures as Mary, what you doing here, no duty or for another twenty years, because really is so severe, said the back seat. But back to life in the hospital there. She has says while not due to heaven for another twenty years. So before she left the hospital. She had a facelift. We talked your everything certainly possible paradigm. Everything just to turn your hair and I will look like this. It had a picture name plastic surgery. Everything was done, she walked out of the hospital hit by bus goes to heaven to Debbie for St. Peter and Saint peters it while she says she marries is the St. Peter I thought you said I had twenty years before I can back in St. Peter goes marrying you that you I know they'll give up my day job. So anyhow, we have a new life in Christ, God has given us a new identity. The devils are looking for the old you and you have the new do, which is in Christ, and he can fit fine. Do you have a new identity. Human new nature. You have a new outlook in a new outlook on life. You have a new annual on life, all things are gone. Behold what all things, a new survey, say, behold again, behold ready default types of Isaiah is at the office lady. You recognize may be honest. Maybe I'll haven't eaten all day again. The gnome is great. We all looked at me with that look at the know may we see identity is a personal conception a personal concept you have a personal concept of you and this concept expresses what your identity is getting your concept of view is in his is an expression of what you think you look like that your identity while and I have a drivers license if they may lose her driver 's license plate number for the subject and you have a drivers license, what's on your driver 's license picture had that picture again. It's a lot like me, a much prettier than this, unless handsomer than that. Like I so now you have this identification card you carry with you whether it's a passport or whether it's a drivers license. While you have this identity of who you are and somebody asked while you say they can't do there who are AWOL on David Truman Lake Lodge identification. You're what drivers license and shot the individual. They look at the card with you card with you and what they say that you, the your concept of you is your concept of view match God 's picture of you and what does God picture you have when God looks at him told out the file metadata Mickey's picture in it. Anyone said that he looks at me as if the same person I got married. I thought you visit then and I thought you visit see what does God. We need to look in the mirror of God 's word to reflect the anything God has of us and we need to match this image, not an try not try to make this match, who I think he is in the guy should be. I need to look at this and I need to read it, and then in the concepts in the Scripture things and being forgiven and being restored and and and being the person that God wants me to be. I need to look in here and see what I need to look like I'm on a scummy people look at some fancy magazines and see models on there and think, wow, I can look like that, whether men or women. You must I does look like that. The debut good like that need to be fat and ugly involved in the unable of like the David, you need more grace in your life, not gravy graves in a more grace in your life. David so I might change what you look like now. David made that decision he he moves away from. He moved to close the table and he got that elbow disease. The well this is what God wants us to look in the Bible and see what the concept what he believed us to be so that whenever we look in the Bible we see ourselves, not some distant believable maybe believable concept of God out there somewhere. We need to look at what God wants us to look like and see the mirror of what that is. See ourselves reflected so we want to match God 's knowledge of what he knows we can become and what he plans for us for our life, we need to start following that plan to the Bible is your identifying documents. The Bible is on identifying documents. It is a document which may be used to verify aspects of a person or personality identity. Personal identity, so an identity document identifies verifies the aspects of who we are as your eye color on their lapel erupts no as you face. I told you wear glasses on so is in the picture was in the picture of your license. You so how do you identify the picture how you really know what you are you right now it's you in the picture. How do you know what you look like thank you an error. The trick question. How do you know what you look like you look in the mirror, so I know I look like by looking in the mirror and saw this reflects how do we know what we look like the God are we reflecting his image and video this is for the first verse we read after all is said that the identity that we have. It is a freely given all this comes from God, who settled the relationship between us and him, and then calls us to settle that relationship with each other, so it's reflected in what we do to other people how we live our life and is a very practical, easy way to God as well work in our life as so we look in the mirror of God 's word. We look into that mirror and that's what we are to look like. So my child of God am I forget the gentle forget Laguna Beach and we would see the movie was son of God, and it's well worth seeing. It's very, very much very biblical concepts and everything that puts for portrays maybe a couple things were out of place, but a frontmost part. It's perfect and we see what God went through crucifixion his death, his resurrection, so that I could be his child so the DNA of God. What makes God. God is now in the end, that's what enables me to lose the old nature to put off the old man to put away the old man God enables me to put it away because it doesn't belong to me anymore. It's not what I wear anymore. It doesn't fit who I am anymore, so we need to turn off the old nature chart on the new nature and stop trying to be good, love God, and we need to pray and ask God to give but the strength to be good to do the right things to make the right choices that we choose life. God wants us to choose blessing to choose forgiveness to choose love. He wants us to turn off the negativity by turning on the right choices saw just the positive expression. It is the belief that God is going to work good in my life. Deuteronomy thirty nineteen says I call heaven and earth to rent record to record this day against you, okay God is saying in the Scriptures here have entered Earth is going to take record of the snake record evidence that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing God has set before us now how intelligent do we need to be that this is a trick question, God, life and death, blessing and cursing. I may choose life with him about procedures that are nature 's life. Good how to choose blessing instead of cursing regard to does the trick blessing will choose life, which is blessing God says choose life, that both you and this is the really important part with it, even saying this for weeks. And whatever the causes, but impressed upon my life that God wants us to choose life, that both you and your seat. Both you and your children may live. God wants us to choose life and blessing, so that you learn those around you will have the effects of it. If you had a billion dollars in your pocket. Do you think the people around you would be blessed. Would you be willing to share like last week 's illustration in Leslie, who admits rate given way, whenever we hear so you had a billion dollars in your pocket people around you would be blessed, because you would recognize you're not a order your giver while the importance of what we do is not just for our own lives. It's for the lives of the people around us. Now I got this illustration from Joel state. But in what you think it has to really thought this one. It's what I've been saying he just doesn't matter. Now he just did it much better. So I got this I I I borrowed this from Joel 's TV show. Okay, I noticed that six people of the same family were imprisoned at the same time, this individual did a research on the family history went back to seventeen twenty, and his name was Max Ju and he was a drinker roughhousing a married woman of the same character. They had six daughters, twelve hundred descendents. This is a list of the defendants, three hundred and ten homeless one hundred and eighty alcoholics, one hundred and sixty drug addicts, one hundred fifty criminals seven convicted murderers the same time. Seventeen oh three, Jonathan Edwards famous theologian married to the same wife thirty one years of the same nature they had eleven children, fourteen hundred descendents, thirteen, college professors, college presidents excuse me, sixty six professors one hundred attorneys, eighty five authors, classic novels, thirty two, state judges sixty six physicians a served in public office for a governors, three senators and one vice presidents. What you choose what I choose the choices we make have a definite impact upon our lives upon those around us. Do we choose life we choose love, which is forgiveness, which is sharing of God 's blessing seat. We look at the drivers license, and sometimes we think this is us notice and when God has forgiven us. We have a new nature which I do this later, still hangs around and we try to make ourselves fit in this old nature. We try to make ourselves fit in those old places, but we all sit there anymore because God has saved us. He's come into our hearts in our lives, and he makes a difference, and when I try to make this work, but this is and who we are. We are in Christ, a new person. We have a new life, all things are passed away. You can set here and think of the demo can remind you, you can remind yourself of what you were where you been in the back of it is done and all the things are going wrong and that's not God that is the enemy trying to remind you of what you used to wear who you used to be you know where this anymore. It doesn't fit what God has given you the new nature. He has given you, forgiveness, kindly forgiveness, not something you are something he gifts he has loved you before you were a little bar. He'd know you and he loved you, not because of what you could do that because of just who you are feeling love issue. That's what we see in the book we mirror what we see in the book. When you look at the book and we want to see God 's reflection back on us and that reflection is one of love and forgiveness, understanding renewal making right choices, choosing love choosing forgiveness. We make mistakes. We care still have the old blue jeans. We still have the old nature. Yes, sorry to say this is by no entirely away until we go to heaven 's overall better make mistakes and were all going to fail and wrong to fall down. Kathy wanted to put these on a fall down why is it that she has offended them anymore. Never did. Thank goodness off, but she never fit in these such would fall over you never fit God 's nature never fit the old nature. There was always something missing so we find that you are here, you are hereby choice, not because of the old nature because of the new nature that God wants to keep on bringing up in your life. He wants to change us from the inside I were regenerated by the blood of Jesus, we are enabled by God you make good choices. Godly choices. God provides the means and the opportunities in the training and the NCM enables us as we know his word divinely enabled whenever spiritual DNA that is linked through eternity and God you stand here and declare before God, behold, it's me. God its legality and guess what this guy know you, David. I knew you well you are yet in your mother 's womb just being formed. I knew you and I have a plan for you have a purpose for you. Each one of us is a plan is a purpose is a goal, and we want the nature of God to be our nature. We want God to help us make the right choices to have the right attitude to stand for given in the presence of Almighty God, in the presence of all the people that we love kicked the old nature to the author, and surrendered all to Christ and then the step forward over what, how do we close how do you club. What's your prayer with your prayer is what is it that God wants to bring to the surface here in your life you make that your prayer this for a moment before I pray closing prayer. You make your prayer to God, father, you've heard our prayers I pray your blessing. I pray your strength. I pray the realities of your forgiveness in the greatness of your nature. The long-suffering of your love. The power of your presence that you know God to open doors you Lord to open our hearts create a new nature in us create a new person that new person that you have created and still your power is still your blessing. We may go forth to proclaim the message of Jesus Christ in a way that is healing for our lives in healing for the lives around us. For you have a blessing for us and you have a blessing for those we touch and then try to somebody and say all day long on all this. I is aWhile this morning 's sermon is new life in Christ and what I write down your something else new new identity that was it in writing on this one. Offender identity and two second Corinthians five seventeen. Read on King James version first. Therefore if any man be in Christ is a new creature, all things are passed away, behold all things are become new. Any anyone who is in Christ is a new creation new creature all things pass away, behold, everything becomes new in the message Bible says because of this decision. We don't evaluate people by what they have or how they look when you look at the Messiah that way. Once I got it all wrong. As you know, we certainly don't look at him that way anymore. Now we look inside and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, a created new. Your life is gone and new life virgins look at it. All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to settle our relationship with each other so as we think about this new life, new identity in a week. I know why was the thing in the concept of new identity often think of the protection services yelled somebody to the witness protection program and data have a new identity. They ship them to a new part of the country. Given new numbers, nasal security numbers and nobody knows they exist because they are a protection program then a new identity. This was the stone upon them by the government. Well, Jesus gives us a new identity, and this this new identity is in his regeneration that we are removed from the inside out renewal or restoration of a body, bodily parts or biological system. But the definition regeneration readable renewal or restoration. Okay, rest tarring us to what we should be before the fall, not before the spring but before the fall in the gardening that before there was a fall before we had become sinful God regenerates renews our life and has us ready change from the inside out name a new identity in this new life is in Christ, it's a new regenerated life for us begins in Christ so regenerated is enabled via divine grace, not human effort. So stop being good start, allowing God to empower you to be good. I'm trying my best not good enough. We want God to enable us and enabled by divine grace, not human effort divinely enabled to change to have a new life that have a restored life and Kathy, I need you come on down. You are the lucky participant. Come on up here and hit it. You never know right. You never know what is going to get into. I have these. I like you put on over here and say these are not I I I specially measured them for her so if you like. Maybe you have to slip up in your shoes. They have put this on okay on course, I want to your foot to get stuck in neck of the sulfite levitated those my brothers that that's the minor, K that my pastor like they have to button place okay one one fall down for several rear, not less. Holidays France now set. You know, while if we pull on them a little bit and am there I fit you ever when we are renewed in Christ our old nature. We don't fan enable nature anymore yet. I said where you used to. God has changed you from the inside out. Regeneration is changed, renewal, and you can't fix these genes by yourself. If you are genes. Genes genetic of the genetic problem with sauce is where human and God designed us to be blessed by him of being his creation a new creation in Christ, and whenever you like in your status should need walk around sleep in the incident, and I fall down. If that isn't that really appropriate, we might all now in a bucket, so it's only forty minutes. The sermon itself off so we find the right look to the Glock forty minutes. We do not hereby new over the now, we look at this then leads to combat our old nature. The whenever we are tempted. I can't think of our testing out my old nature. The elves looked a bit, then our alternate Thursdays. You belong back were you were here. The longer you wear that you weren't stay from taking been saved from this addiction is not playing with the nature and have been saved from that, and God has created the you have been saved from these things I could latch isn't safe from those things I've rescued her. I am rescued her from them. Terrible genes. Guess what God has rescued you from the terrible bluejeans, the terrible genes that don't fit your life. This doesn't fit your life anymore in Christ. New creation. You are a new creature, and your old life doesn't fit you have a new life looks much better than it looks much better in your new life fits who God created you to be. This is what you're fallen nature tries to make you that it doesn't fit anymore. God has made you knew so reminiscing old new genes, no blue jeans think it, so it doesn't fit anymore. Our nature doesn't fit the all nature doesn't fit so I like and I like the idea of enable know we all got to have a negative concept of enablers and enabler as someone like someone has an addiction arm often given as a person who excessively drink that someone in the house or someone's excessively and somewhat excessively abusive about your abusive. That's excessive. As someone who is abusive, something outside about how that there can be an enabler someone enables that person to continue on in their bad habit. Well, God enables us to continue on into good things that God has good things in store for us for our life, and he wants that good. He wants to enable us for the good to come into our lives and the guide comes by the ability to choose, choose correctly what we're going to do to make something possible. God enables us to make something possible to make it possible and a practical, easy way if US ninety, early drafts a hundred people you think faith in God is practical and easy. I'm a writer and if they guess I believe faith is practical and easy as no takers on this while about God enables me to be practical and easy in my life, the life is not a burden. God is very practical. Our faith is a very practical faith. It is a surrounds the nature of God, and it surrounds us. I've used this story, three times a day. So for for those you don't haven't heard it. This is without the others. Those things started years ago there was a person nine. New seat. She is the person had fallen and broken her and I have to my symbol. What happened and she said. Pushed me when it's all okay if I don't, when God knocks you off your feet. He did not solve unknown road farces and so on so your eyes is okay, got pushed you got was just one of our stereo fell down. Firstly okay, so we talked and visited for a while and then I ask you what is it you would like for me to pray about it. She's as well. Pray that God would heal me check is something wrong with the story. What kind of a godly people. First, let's meet out so they genuinely know what you that is a very impractical. God is very impractical concept of God but God is an enabler in the good way. He makes something possible to make something possible to make something practical that enables us to provide with the means or opportunity to provide with training, brought by his word is training us to see what our old nature is like violence only what the new nature to the distance barely fits but& but the nature of the afternoon as we shall beautifully illustrated by Kathy that death and able to have this new nature that take changes us into something that God wants us to be before we were in the fall, so he provides the means provides the opportunity provides the training that enables his people to live so we are divinely enabled through the word God given us his word is given us the opportunity to change from the inside out. Psalm fifty one ten create in me a clean heart and oh God, and renew a right spirit within me. God is creating. We are asking him to create creative block create a minute sweetheart renew a right spirit. What does a clean heart looked like one dozen white spirits look like love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, neatness, kindness, long-suffering right spirit. That's the spirit that the characteristic of God, so the characteristic of God becomes part of who we are. God enables us to see and understand and participate in Hebrews chapter eight and its verses six through thirteen guys picked up to leave. It says God is writing out his plan carving it on the lining of our hearts. God is wiping out his plan God has a plan for God has a purpose for us and then the next one of the other verses in that section says they will get to know me meeting God that will get to know me by being kindly forgive with the slate of their sins for ever wiped clean so the the new life. The new identity that we have in Christ is one of his regular fund the tables of our hearts, and that it is one that is kindly forgiven the beatings will continue until the attitude changes. That's not kindly forgiven that will forgive and kindly forgiven is the love of God shed of Reinhardt covered over in our hearts to forgive us, so new life in Christ, God has given us a new identity and you know what, if someone physically went from this down to the size of our Kassie there we walked right by them and not know the right stuff. I went from this to a hundred pounds. You go while I know him anymore. Did you wonder the devils out looking for the old you. You can find you why does you'll look like that anymore. Now he knows our nature. Another related videos are we good, but just think about this. We all fall into the same tribes were used to because revenue nature, a new nature. This created in the image of God. And when we are created in the image of God. Evil has a way of dislike you can see how I was the Jesus Donelan, they were near him. So, when God will he look like Christ forgiven love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness. Make this kindness, long-suffering, when we have a right spirit, and we have Christ in our life. The devil sees Christ before he sees us can't find them know the kind of look like that anymore and that I joke about the lady probably good, but they look elegant F late late walk down the hospital and to the pretty good. She got hit by a bus. The data set all costs does the I'm not leaving the ones I like the Hamas leadership by Boston's goes back into his critical care she dies goes them shows up at the pearly gates, St. Peter says, with no Mary's and here's enabling Mary the cook is a marry shows up in heaven and figures as Mary, what you doing here, no duty or for another twenty years, because really is so severe, said the back seat. But back to life in the hospital there. She has says while not due to heaven for another twenty years. So before she left the hospital. She had a facelift. We talked your everything certainly possible paradigm. Everything just to turn your hair and I will look like this. It had a picture name plastic surgery. Everything was done, she walked out of the hospital hit by bus goes to heaven to Debbie for St. Peter and Saint peters it while she says she marries is the St. Peter I thought you said I had twenty years before I can back in St. Peter goes marrying you that you I know they'll give up my day job. So anyhow, we have a new life in Christ, God has given us a new identity. The devils are looking for the old you and you have the new do, which is in Christ, and he can fit fine. Do you have a new identity. Human new nature. You have a new outlook in a new outlook on life. You have a new annual on life, all things are gone. Behold what all things, a new survey, say, behold again, behold ready default types of Isaiah is at the office lady. You recognize may be honest. Maybe I'll haven't eaten all day again. The gnome is great. We all looked at me with that look at the know may we see identity is a personal conception a personal concept you have a personal concept of you and this concept expresses what your identity is getting your concept of view is in his is an expression of what you think you look like that your identity while and I have a drivers license if they may lose her driver 's license plate number for the subject and you have a drivers license, what's on your driver 's license picture had that picture again. It's a lot like me, a much prettier than this, unless handsomer than that. Like I so now you have this identification card you carry with you whether it's a passport or whether it's a drivers license. While you have this identity of who you are and somebody asked while you say they can't do there who are AWOL on David Truman Lake Lodge identification. You're what drivers license and shot the individual. They look at the card with you card with you and what they say that you, the your concept of you is your concept of view match God 's picture of you and what does God picture you have when God looks at him told out the file metadata Mickey's picture in it. Anyone said that he looks at me as if the same person I got married. I thought you visit then and I thought you visit see what does God. We need to look in the mirror of God 's word to reflect the anything God has of us and we need to match this image, not an try not try to make this match, who I think he is in the guy should be. I need to look at this and I need to read it, and then in the concepts in the Scripture things and being forgiven and being restored and and and being the person that God wants me to be. I need to look in here and see what I need to look like I'm on a scummy people look at some fancy magazines and see models on there and think, wow, I can look like that, whether men or women. You must I does look like that. The debut good like that need to be fat and ugly involved in the unable of like the David, you need more grace in your life, not gravy graves in a more grace in your life. David so I might change what you look like now. David made that decision he he moves away from. He moved to close the table and he got that elbow disease. The well this is what God wants us to look in the Bible and see what the concept what he believed us to be so that whenever we look in the Bible we see ourselves, not some distant believable maybe believable concept of God out there somewhere. We need to look at what God wants us to look like and see the mirror of what that is. See ourselves reflected so we want to match God 's knowledge of what he knows we can become and what he plans for us for our life, we need to start following that plan to the Bible is your identifying documents. The Bible is on identifying documents. It is a document which may be used to verify aspects of a person or personality identity. Personal identity, so an identity document identifies verifies the aspects of who we are as your eye color on their lapel erupts no as you face. I told you wear glasses on so is in the picture was in the picture of your license. You so how do you identify the picture how you really know what you are you right now it's you in the picture. How do you know what you look like thank you an error. The trick question. How do you know what you look like you look in the mirror, so I know I look like by looking in the mirror and saw this reflects how do we know what we look like the God are we reflecting his image and video this is for the first verse we read after all is said that the identity that we have. It is a freely given all this comes from God, who settled the relationship between us and him, and then calls us to settle that relationship with each other, so it's reflected in what we do to other people how we live our life and is a very practical, easy way to God as well work in our life as so we look in the mirror of God 's word. We look into that mirror and that's what we are to look like. So my child of God am I forget the gentle forget Laguna Beach and we would see the movie was son of God, and it's well worth seeing. It's very, very much very biblical concepts and everything that puts for portrays maybe a couple things were out of place, but a frontmost part. It's perfect and we see what God went through crucifixion his death, his resurrection, so that I could be his child so the DNA of God. What makes God. God is now in the end, that's what enables me to lose the old nature to put off the old man to put away the old man God enables me to put it away because it doesn't belong to me anymore. It's not what I wear anymore. It doesn't fit who I am anymore, so we need to turn off the old nature chart on the new nature and stop trying to be good, love God, and we need to pray and ask God to give but the strength to be good to do the right things to make the right choices that we choose life. God wants us to choose blessing to choose forgiveness to choose love. He wants us to turn off the negativity by turning on the right choices saw just the positive expression. It is the belief that God is going to work good in my life. Deuteronomy thirty nineteen says I call heaven and earth to rent record to record this day against you, okay God is saying in the Scriptures here have entered Earth is going to take record of the snake record evidence that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing God has set before us now how intelligent do we need to be that this is a trick question, God, life and death, blessing and cursing. I may choose life with him about procedures that are nature 's life. Good how to choose blessing instead of cursing regard to does the trick blessing will choose life, which is blessing God says choose life, that both you and this is the really important part with it, even saying this for weeks. And whatever the causes, but impressed upon my life that God wants us to choose life, that both you and your seat. Both you and your children may live. God wants us to choose life and blessing, so that you learn those around you will have the effects of it. If you had a billion dollars in your pocket. Do you think the people around you would be blessed. Would you be willing to share like last week 's illustration in Leslie, who admits rate given way, whenever we hear so you had a billion dollars in your pocket people around you would be blessed, because you would recognize you're not a order your giver while the importance of what we do is not just for our own lives. It's for the lives of the people around us. Now I got this illustration from Joel state. But in what you think it has to really thought this one. It's what I've been saying he just doesn't matter. Now he just did it much better. So I got this I I I borrowed this from Joel 's TV show. Okay, I noticed that six people of the same family were imprisoned at the same time, this individual did a research on the family history went back to seventeen twenty, and his name was Max Ju and he was a drinker roughhousing a married woman of the same character. They had six daughters, twelve hundred descendents. This is a list of the defendants, three hundred and ten homeless one hundred and eighty alcoholics, one hundred and sixty drug addicts, one hundred fifty criminals seven convicted murderers the same time. Seventeen oh three, Jonathan Edwards famous theologian married to the same wife thirty one years of the same nature they had eleven children, fourteen hundred descendents, thirteen, college professors, college presidents excuse me, sixty six professors one hundred attorneys, eighty five authors, classic novels, thirty two, state judges sixty six physicians a served in public office for a governors, three senators and one vice presidents. What you choose what I choose the choices we make have a definite impact upon our lives upon those around us. Do we choose life we choose love, which is forgiveness, which is sharing of God 's blessing seat. We look at the drivers license, and sometimes we think this is us notice and when God has forgiven us. We have a new nature which I do this later, still hangs around and we try to make ourselves fit in this old nature. We try to make ourselves fit in those old places, but we all sit there anymore because God has saved us. He's come into our hearts in our lives, and he makes a difference, and when I try to make this work, but this is and who we are. We are in Christ, a new person. We have a new life, all things are passed away. You can set here and think of the demo can remind you, you can remind yourself of what you were where you been in the back of it is done and all the things are going wrong and that's not God that is the enemy trying to remind you of what you used to wear who you used to be you know where this anymore. It doesn't fit what God has given you the new nature. He has given you, forgiveness, kindly forgiveness, not something you are something he gifts he has loved you before you were a little bar. He'd know you and he loved you, not because of what you could do that because of just who you are feeling love issue. That's what we see in the book we mirror what we see in the book. When you look at the book and we want to see God 's reflection back on us and that reflection is one of love and forgiveness, understanding renewal making right choices, choosing love choosing forgiveness. We make mistakes. We care still have the old blue jeans. We still have the old nature. Yes, sorry to say this is by no entirely away until we go to heaven 's overall better make mistakes and were all going to fail and wrong to fall down. Kathy wanted to put these on a fall down why is it that she has offended them anymore. Never did. Thank goodness off, but she never fit in these such would fall over you never fit God 's nature never fit the old nature. There was always something missing so we find that you are here, you are hereby choice, not because of the old nature because of the new nature that God wants to keep on bringing up in your life. He wants to change us from the inside I were regenerated by the blood of Jesus, we are enabled by God you make good choices. Godly choices. God provides the means and the opportunities in the training and the NCM enables us as we know his word divinely enabled whenever spiritual DNA that is linked through eternity and God you stand here and declare before God, behold, it's me. God its legality and guess what this guy know you, David. I knew you well you are yet in your mother 's womb just being formed. I knew you and I have a plan for you have a purpose for you. Each one of us is a plan is a purpose is a goal, and we want the nature of God to be our nature. We want God to help us make the right choices to have the right attitude to stand for given in the presence of Almighty God, in the presence of all the people that we love kicked the old nature to the author, and surrendered all to Christ and then the step forward over what, how do we close how do you club. What's your prayer with your prayer is what is it that God wants to bring to the surface here in your life you make that your prayer this for a moment before I pray closing prayer. You make your prayer to God, father, you've heard our prayers I pray your blessing. I pray your strength. I pray the realities of your forgiveness in the greatness of your nature. The long-suffering of your love. The power of your presence that you know God to open doors you Lord to open our hearts create a new nature in us create a new person that new person that you have created and still your power is still your blessing. We may go forth to proclaim the message of Jesus Christ in a way that is healing for our lives in healing for the lives around us. For you have a blessing for us and you have a blessing for those we touch and then try to somebody and say all day long on all this. I is a