There’s one thing hell hopes you never find out…your true identity in Christ. The world doesn’t want you to know your true identity; once you discover who you are through Christ, you become a force that hell cannot stop. We often forfeit our uniqueness in an effort to be accepted by others. The devil is a master deceiver who wants to steal your identity. You’re an essential part of God’s plan to build the Kingdom on earth. Stay grounded in the Word.
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if you brought your Bibles turn them to
the book of
Colossians the first chapter the 13th
and the 14th verse as this morning we
begin a new sermon series entitled
identity theft with this message the one
thing that hell hopes you never find
out there’s a lot that hell has
Unleashed in our culture and our society
today they’re trying to distract you
they’re trying to overwhelm you all of
the powers and principalities of
Darkness are doing everything that they
can on a continuous basis to try and
force you to doubt God’s word draw you
away from his promises but of all of the
things that hell is trying and seeking
to afflict you with there’s something
that all of hell hopes you never find
out and that’s your true identity in
Christ the reason that hell does not
want you to know your true identity in
Christ is because if you were to ever
realize who you are in him and what you
can do because of his blood and because
of his
word then you become a force that hell
itself cannot
stop We Begin this message series by
understanding
who we are in Christ how many you have
ever opened up your inbox or gotten a
phone call that said there’s been a
fraud
alert and immediately fear and panic
enter into your soul as you begin to
wonder well who got my account and how
much did they take I mean there’s only
$247 in there but I need
that and You Begin this process of
trying to validate if you are who you
say you are and in order
to demonstrate that you are actually who
you say you are you have to say certain
things do certain things demonstrate
certain things that cause someone you
cannot see but you hear their voice and
they’re saying please understand this is
a secure line how do I
know and I’m your friend helping you
through this Pro how do I know how do I
know you’re not the agent of Abu Dhabi
who’s taking everything out of my
account as we speak
and they begin to ask you for answers to
weird questions like where did you go to
middle school and what’s the middle name
of your third child and what’s your
favorite dog and you forgot what your
favorite dog’s name was and you say
fluffy and they say scruffy and now
you’re back to square
one and then you go through all of that
process and the last thing they ask you
is what is your
pen and you realize that your pin and
your password are you know 1472
characters long containing 16 capital
letters 14 unique asteris and
underscores and
overscoring marks and at the end of all
of that harassment you got your
$557
back how many of you know what I’m
talking
about well the
devil he has a fraud alert on the
church he wants us to be anything thing
but what Christ has given us to
be Christ said Upon This Rock have I
built my church and the Gates of Hell
shall not Prevail against
it and therefore in every way that he
possibly can the enemy wants to steal
the identity of the church and cause us
to live under a cloud of confusion and
the alert of fraud because if we ever
become who Christ says we are if we ever
begin to shine like Christ has commanded
us to shine if we ever begin to do what
we have the authority to do I promise
you this based on God’s word that Gates
of Hell cannot Prevail against
us so if we’re going to validate who has
Authority in this world today we’re not
going to use a password we’re not going
to use a pen we’re not going to go into
some part of our past we’re going to
look at the truth of the word of God and
what it says about you is the
truth let’s look at what the Bible says
in one of many places Colossians the 1
chapter the 13th verse if you’re there
say amen
amen he has delivered us from the power
of darkness and conveyed us into the
kingdom of the son of his love in whom
we have have Redemption through his
blood and forgiveness of
sins heavenly
father thank
you for the
complete and total
victory that you have given
us in that you have taken us from a
kingdom of darkness and brought us into
the kingdom of your
son now let this
truth be some into our heart our soul
our minds and our bodies that when we
leave this place today hell will not
have any form of dominion but your
kingdom would stand victorious in Jesus
mighty name we pray and say amen amen
you may be
seated the word identity is a word that
you get to hear a lot in the world that
we live in
today and it’s important that we
understand what the real definition of
identity is because these days you can
identify as just about anything you want
to identify
as whenever you’re trying to define
something unfortunately as much
information as we have in the world
today you actually have to go digging
for an older source and look for the
definition because whether you know it
or not they’re rewriting
dictionaries so the word identity when
you go back and look at the original
Webster dictionary not the
revised says a distinguishing character
or personality of an
individual you have an identity you are
an
individual God did not create two of you
and decide which one he liked better
there’s only one of you and you have
been made just like God wanted you to be
this is a powerful thing for you to
understand because when you recognize
that you have a unique identity and that
you are fearfully and wonderfully made
in the image of God it enables you to
become confident that if that kind of
God has a plan and a purpose for you
that he made you as unique and
distinguished as you
are the world itself cannot stand
against
you this issue of identity is one that
we see all around around us whether we
recognize it or not celebrities are paid
millions of dollars for the use of their
identity they want the identity of the
celebrity to hold up a certain drink or
wear a certain shirt or do a certain
thing the word identity is being
attached to a multitude of platforms how
many of you have heard the phrase
identity
politics it’s all over the place right
now and identity politics for those of
you who don’t know what it means is
simply this it’s when a politician
seeking your vote will do anything he
can to identify with you even if he’s
nothing like
you and then whenever they identify with
you not only do they want you to
associate with them but they’ll do
everything they can to create as much
animosity as they can between you and
another group because if they keep you
divided they can control
you you say well I don’t know that
that’s true okay then why do you always
see politicians in churches during
campaign Seasons but not Sunday to
Sunday there’s identity
marketing you may or may not know this
but every time you pick up your phone
everything that you watch everything
that you like everything that you add
everything that you click on all of that
is building a profile for people to know
more about your identity as new as we
would like to believe that this ident
idty issue is Solomon was correct when
he said there is nothing new Under the
Sun because the World the Flesh and the
devil have been building a profile on
you wanting to show you the things that
you like doing everything it can to
steal the identity that you have in
Christ This is why we’re talking about
identity theft because the enemy wants
you to believe anything but what the
Bible has to say about you
why because if you begin to believe what
the word of God says about you then you
begin to operate like the word of God
says you should function what you need
to know is that you are not what this
world says you are you are not what the
enemy accuses you of being you are not
bound by your past you are not burdened
by your present and you are not afraid
of your future why because you are what
the word of God has to say you are what
the blood of Jesus Christ can make you
when you open this book you find out
that you are an heir and a joint Heir
with Jesus his blood has washed you
whiter than snow in Ephesians it says
we’re seated in Heavenly places it
didn’t say we’re going to be it says
we’re there right now why because I have
an advocate that’s up there his name is
Jesus and whenever I find a circumstance
down here that I need his help in a
there I go into Heavenly places and I
say in the name of Jesus and Jesus says
how may I help you on Earth my child and
when I begin to explain the situation he
says we can do that we can fix that we
can move that we can break that we can
build that we can destroy that because
whatever you ask of me you can have it
in my
name sometimes we get so caught up in
the busyness of the daytoday that we
forget to do the simple things in life
such as exchanging a friendly greeting
with our neighbors it is time to be
God’s love in action like the Good
Samaritan we are called to love our
neighbors as ourselves does your life
reflect his truth we are called to be
Salt and Light our actions and life
styles need to reflect the light of
Jesus to those around us we are a living
testimony of God’s goodness if we are
not shining God’s love on those around
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breed and this is why the enemy is
trying to make sure that you don’t ever
discover who the authorized user of the
word of God happens to be you are the
authorized user of this
account when it’s in your mouth it’s a
two-edged sword when it’s in your heart
it’s a shield around your faith around
your family around your home when it’s
in your life it cannot be broken it will
not return void when you look at the
authorship of God here is how he wrote
it Genesis 1:2 7 God created Man In His
Image in the image of God he created
them how male and
female this culture of confusion is the
kind of environment that the devil loves
to operate in that’s why God is not the
author of it the devil is that liar he’s
the serpent of old he’s the one who’s
been a liar from the very beginning the
serpent was more cunning than any beast
of the field and he said said to the
woman has God indeed said you see that
in the middle of the verse how many of
you recognize that that’s a statement of
doubt and
confusion has God indeed said when
somebody asks you a question about the
obvious it’s not because they don’t know
the answer it’s because they want you to
question what is
obvious and if Eve would have remembered
what God said she would have told him
absolutely Genesis 2 of every tree you
may eat of how many every how many of
you know that God always gives you so
much more than he restricts you
from you can eat of every tree that’s
out
there you can eat of the MCB tree and
you can eat of the quarter pounder tree
and you can eat of the waterburger tree
and you can eat of the taco
tree of every tree you may eat but of
the tree of the knowledge of Good and
Evil you shall not eat for in the day
that you eat of it what will happen you
will surely
die there’s no question in that
statement God made it very clear if you
do this you will
die but now the enemy is causing
confusion let’s question God questioning
leads to
doubt will you surely
die doubt mixed with desire leads to
deception Genesis 3 and6 it says the
woman saw the tree that it was good for
food that it was pleasant to the eyes
that it was
desirable she wanted
it and whenever the enemy created
confusion and doubt her desire allowed
her to listen more clearly to the voice
of the serpent saying a deceptive thing
than it was God saying a very clear
thing in verse 5 he says the day you eat
it you’re going to be like like
God when you break God’s word you’re not
going to get worse you’re going to get
better and we sit here and we look at
Eve and we go how could she be so
dumb but how many of us in this room
have allowed the enemy to do the same
thing by playing games with
us you think you can break God’s word
and get
better you want to throw rocks at Eve
for eating fruit but you’re not doing
what God wants you to do on a daily
basis how dare she eat that Apple how
dare you not read your Bible and say
your
prayers and yet because our desire is to
give into the deception we’ll justify
that behavior instead of doing what God
wants us to do Eve Justified taking the
Apple deception led to death guess what
she believed believed what the father of
Lies had to say this is why Jesus in
John 8:44 says he’s a murderer from the
beginning Every Lie he tells is with the
intent of killing you destroying your
future taking what God has given you
that’s why he’s the thief who comes to
steal to kill and to
destroy Eve believed the lie but before
we feel sorry for Eve recognized that
she wanted to believe the lie and we do
too she took of the tree is what Genesis
3 and6 says she took of the fruit and
she ate it and she shared it with her
husband she knew that she was breaking
God’s
word and the first thing that she did
when she broke it is she shared it with
somebody
else what is it about Humanity that when
we break God’s rule we prefer to
celebrate it with others than be ashamed
of
why is it that when we do something
that’s a little bit risky or something
that’s out on the edge we want to tell
people you’ll never guess what I did
last weekend and for whatever reason we
feel good about
it you ever notice that no juicy stories
begin with you’ll never guess where we
went last
Sunday
church as soon as she broke God’s word
she shared it with her
husband theologically we call this the
fall and while some think it’s the fall
of Man I’ll tell you that I believe it
was the fall of
everything yes indeed God’s creation
Adam and Eve lost severely but so did
all of
nature that’s why Romans tells us very
clearly that the whole earth is
groaning now the difference between Adam
and Eve and all of nature is that Adam
and Eve chose this route nature was
subjected to this route it’s not like
they took a vote and said to the rocks
and the trees and the flowers and the
garden hey you guys think we should
break God’s law no they couldn’t do that
because Adam and Eve had been given
dominion over all of nature so when you
tell yourself that your sin doesn’t
affect anybody else but you you need to
understand that everything that you have
Dem minion over is something that is
going to lose when you break God’s
word dad you think you can sin and it’s
not going to affect your children wrong
you have dominion over
them mom you think you can walk away
from God’s word and it’s not going to
impact your Generations wrong you have
dominion over them Adam and Eve
lost they lost their Supernatural nature
their eyes were opened and they were
naked and
afraid just a few verses prior to that
in Genesis 225 it says they were naked
and they were unashamed this speaks of
their
innocence the second that Adam and Eve
walked away from God they begin to feel
a new feeling and it was the corruption
of shame that had been brought into
their nature they lost their Dominion
Genesis 1:26 it said let them have
dominion and suddenly the Earth is now
cursed Genesis 3:17 curse it as the
ground for your sake God told Adam
thorns and thistles shall It Grow for
you from the sweat of your brow shall
you eat from dust you came from to dust
you should
return Adam was formed in dust and the
supernatural Breath of God was breathed
into him and when God’s breath got into
dirt dirt was exalted to have dominion
over everything
else and the second that he walked away
from God he lost that divine nature and
now he is going right back down to
dirt don’t you ever think that you can
get by without
God not only did he lose his Dominion he
lost his
Fellowship prior to deciding to eat this
fruit Adam and God had blessed
Fellowship they had a relationship like
none
other look at what Genesis 2 and 19 says
it says God brought the animals to Adam
so that he could name them I don’t know
anybody else that’s ever had such a day
with
God God brings you an animal and says
what do you want to call it he says
let’s call it a giraffe he goes I agree
let’s call it a
giraffe he brings him another one says
what do you think this one looks like he
said that looks like a
arvar says I like that
arvar God and Adam spent time together
and they had such a sweet relationship
that whenever God’s presence showed up
in the garden Adam ran to God but as
soon as the fall of occurred the Bible
says that they heard God Walking In The
Garden in the cool of the day and what
did they do they hid from God Adam and
Eve lost fellowship with God they lost
companionship with each other look at
what God Said to Eve in Genesis 3:16 he
said because your desire is towards your
husband he shall rule over
you up until this point Adam and Eve
were
Partners God took from Adam’s side a rib
and he made woman out of that rib he
took from the side because he wanted
them to be co- laborers he wanted them
to be
partners
Companions and when the fall occurred
God said we’re not going to be
companions you’re going to be
competitors and this is something we
struggle with even to this
day not only did they lose their
companionship but all of creation was
subjected not willing
ly Romans 8:
20-22 the whole creation was subjected
how not
willingly because of him who subjected
it who was him him was
Adam because he had dominion over it he
subjected it to the bondage of
corruption verse 21
and it will also be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the Glorious
Liberty of the children of God for we
know that all creation
groans with labor
pains literally Paul telling the church
that the world is saying
oh even so come Lord
Jesus
Oh even so come Lord
Jesus what do I believe the groans of
the Earth are
saying I believe they’re saying what you
heard during the triumphal entry when
Jesus and his disciples made their way
into
Jerusalem you see there was a crowd
lining the street that day and as Jesus
was entering the city what they were
saying was Hosanna hosan to the king
hosana to the one who comes in the name
of the Lord and some of the Pharisees
came to Jesus and they said do you think
it’s right that these people should be
screaming hosana blessed is the king who
comes in the name of the Lord and Jesus
looked at them and said if they don’t do
it the rocks are going to start saying
it the Rocks would start saying Hosanna
hosana hosan to the king hosan to the
one who comes in the name of the Lord
why because since the Genesis of time
those rocks have been waiting on Jesus
since since they fell and started to
work against the plan of God they’ve
been waiting for somebody to come and
make things right when Jesus walked into
Jerusalem the Rocks were so filled with
anticipation that they were literally
vibrating saying this is what we’ve been
waiting for this is the moment that
we’ve heard about this is that seed of
the woman who was promised to crush the
head of the serpent this is that one who
was coming to redeem and to restore and
to make things right again this is the
one that the prophet said about that he
would have the government upon his
shoulders and of his kingdom there
should be no end church if the men would
have shut up the Rocks would have cried
out hosan hosana the king is coming the
king is
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here this is what the devil doesn’t want
you to find
out who you
are in
Christ
why because he knows that if we get
together he knows that if he can’t
accuse us if he can’t burden us if he
can’t shame
us he knows that if one of us puts a
thousand to flight two of us can put
10,000 to flight he knows that if two or
three of us get together in his name
Jesus Christ has promised to be in his
midst he knows that if we agree on Earth
concerning anything and ask according to
the word of God in faith believing
whatever we ask God the Father will do
it he recognizes behold how blessed and
good it is for Brethren to dwell
together in unity because there God
commanded the blessing and the commanded
blessing that he gave was life forever
more you see Church whenever the church
comes together in the beauty of Holiness
bought by the blood of Jesus Christ and
begins to beave like the church that he
set us free to be there is nothing that
the gates of hell can do to Prevail
against you because Jesus said I’ll give
you the keys to the kingdom and what you
bind on Earth is bound in heaven and
what you loose on Earth it is loosed in
heaven child of God you are liberated
today because the authorized account
says that you stand in the Liberty by
which Christ has made you free you are
Eternal today because the Eternal
account says that those who believe in
him shall never die you are a son and a
daughter of God today a joint air with
Jesus because the word of God has
declared that you have been made equal
in the place of heaven give the Lord a
hand clap of Praise in this house
today the one thing that hell does not
want you to find out is who you are in
Christ Jesus you’re not an improved
version of your old self you’re a new
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