Embracing Our True Identity in Christ

1) "It's because it starts with an impartation of perfection it starts when you're born again when you become a Christian you start with an impartation of your born again spirit of perfection no other religion has this it's amazing God comes and takes your sin nature out and put in his divine nature it says here in Colossians 2 when you came to Christ you were circumcised but not a physical thing but Christ performed a miracle he performed a spiritual circumcision the cutting away of your sinful nature do I still have a sin I'm thinking about doing what shall I preach here I got so many messages on grace I said what shall I preach and I felt like do we still have a sinful nature and it's very good talk but I said no I want to do this one but I do want to talk about it because it is very important because some people still think I was talking to another leader the other day he said oh man you know when we struggle with our sinful nature no there is no sinful nature nowhere in the Bible can you see that you have a sinful nature there is the flesh but there is no sinful nature because Jesus took the sinful nature out remember last week we heard from Sam and also before that from Graham that when Jesus died he died as us when he died and rose we rose with him that is the way for him we are as as him and so when we get born again of the Holy Spirit we say yes to Jesus we have this metamorphosis coming on this new creation is birthed into our lives we are born 100% from God spirit and we become a new creation a new species if you like born of God 100% not 99% 100% we are born of him and then we are filled with the impartation of the divine now a few weeks ago I had a talk on living from innocence and some of you were not there" [01:14:10] (113 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2) "now it sounds good that we are positionally clean we are positionally saved by God as long as we keep the glasses on because really intrinsically in our real lives hey I know the thoughts I know my life I know what's going on and so it's not possible that I can be clean that I can be perfect so I need the glasses in this way without the glasses I'm dirty I'm sinful but as long as I have the glasses that God is good with me I'll tell you what the big problem with this theology is the big problem with this theology if you only feel that you are saved that you're saved by grace that you're a sinner saved by grace if you feel that you're a sinner saved by grace which is actually not in the Bible if you think that you're not a saint now when you're a Christian if you think you're a sinner saved by grace then you will always feel that you're going to be a sinner even though you know that God loves you and that Jesus gave his life for you and that's fine positionally you're fine intrinsically in your life you're not fine at all because you know the thoughts you know what you're doing you know kicking the cat on a regular basis and so there is then there's a problem that you have an identity problem and this will then not empower you this will not empower you because the way you think about yourself is the way you're going to act if you feel dirty in some ways or you feel like you're a sinner you will sin you'll be dirty you will do that stuff because that's who you are now I've got some good news that you are not that anymore all this thinking and the kicking of the cat and the thoughts are all in the soul area" [01:17:28] (96 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3) "now the amazing thing about Christianity is that we're not just positionally saved there's not been a positionally exchange only through Jesus Christ on the cross but there's actually been an exchange of nature and that's the core of the Bible and the core of the new covenant and the core of the gospel of grace that Paul so talks about so strongly in this way you are changed your sinful nature has been taken out and you have been made God's perfect son and perfect daughter with his divine nature and you are one with him the Bible says that we're one spirit with him he doesn't only give you a new spirit but he makes you one with him so you are together one forever and makes you seat in heavenly places I'll tell you something even deducting that whole thing if you are seated in heavenly places how on earth can you be sinful? no sin can come close to heaven and close to God so if you are seated in heavenly places in your spirit then you are clean you are perfect you are holy innocent forever so that's the gospel that's the gospel and I want to dig a bit deeper because some of you are new in our church some of you online have never listened to this before and if you look at grace this is so important for your identity in this way" [01:20:30] (71 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4) "you are perfect and righteous because you become new on the inside you don't need the glasses the glasses are wonderful Jesus is everything but not only through the Jesus glasses also because of who you are in your life you have become new and you're no longer a sinner saved by grace you're a saint Paul never talks about anybody in the New Testament that you're a sinner he never says every church saints to the saints to the saints to the saints always because that's your reality it doesn't mean you live like a saint we're not talking about that right now we're talking about who you have become as a son and as a daughter of God you've been made perfect on the inside see there's no religion like Christianity I actually don't believe it's even a religion I mean it's a faith it's not a religion all other religions have to attain something you've got to become something they want to be accepted by God they want to be loved by God they want to be holy they want to go after themselves they want to become something but they're always failing miserably because you can't do it yourself the Bible says that no one is perfect not even one Romans 3 10 there's no one righteous not even one your self effort your self work will never attain the bliss of heaven the bliss of your born again spirit it will not happen in this way all religions are trying to do good be good holy righteous and never attaining what they're looking for" [01:21:16] (101 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5) "Christianity starts with a gift and that's why it's called grace because you can't work for it you can't earn it it starts with a gift it's called the gift of righteousness it's the gift of perfection it's so beautiful it has nothing to do with you nor your behavior nor anything else it's just trusting in Christ it's just by faith that's why it's called grace you can't earn it and you will never be good enough by the way only Jesus was ever good enough and because Jesus is good enough that's why he gives you what he received and that's good enough so now you are good enough it's the gift of good enoughness that's a word isn't it surely it's a gift of good enoughness because of his perfect performance on the cross on our behalf 2 Corinthians 5.21 one of my favorite scriptures in the Bible God made him Jesus who knew no sin to be sin for us that in him we might become the righteousness of God there's this beautiful exchange that happened he became sinful for us that we in his word in his life in his faith now we can become righteous as he is there's this beautiful exchange happening very very powerful we have become different and completely new at the core of our being without the glasses you are perfect tell your neighbor you are perfect you are perfect now for this to understand somebody said no no no what about the thoughts getting I don't get this okay two weeks ago or three weeks ago I talked about living from innocence" [01:26:20] (104 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6) "you are a spirit and you live in a body and you have a soul right mind will and emotions so the thing is though your spirit that's who you are you are a spirit yeah you have a body I get this but when the body dies it's a spirit there's no body it's just spirit God is not body he's spirit when you're born again you're of spirit born of spirit he deals with you in your spirit that's why when you're born again you are a son you are a spiritual being like God your spiritual being you've been born of God of his sperm the Bible says his sperm his own nature you have been born the body is just a body the soul is the mind will and emotions that's not redeemed that's not saved yet I mean you know your thoughts you gotta learn to align yourself to your new creation spirit and more and more and more and more that's the work the working out of your salvation is that whole process but you have to understand first that when you become a Christian you are new at the core now did I miss something no I didn't I have a little oh yeah no no just for sorry for he chose us and him before the creation of the world Ephesians 1 to be holy and blameless in his sight not just with the glasses he looks at you because you're awesome because he you're made of him it's not just some positional thing which is good by the way at least you get saved but that's not who you are you're much more than them" [01:27:50] (100 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7) "you are born of God people you are born of God you are a new creation 2 Corinthians 5 17 therefore if anyone is in Christ he is a and then what all things have become new now he's talking about his spirit obviously because the next day you're a Christian one day the next day it's not something like wow where's all my thinking gone where's all my history gone where's my thing gone no you're not new there you're new in your spirit you become a son of God or a daughter of God you are new in your spirit and he has made you perfect it says here made you perfect forever so there's these both realities in your life there's one the perfection that is in your spirit it's who you are that's who you are and then there's the reality of your soul that is the becoming part of your soul and you're becoming more and more aligned to your new creation spirit Hebrews 10 by his perfect sacrifice he you has made perfect forever those who are being made holy now I want to say it again here by the sacrifice he so when did he do that when did he do that yesterday today two thousand years ago so at the cross he made us totally so then when you get into the cross when you believe in Christ what happens totally totally" [01:31:00] (93 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8) "so God I want you to see something so God works from the beginning from the inside out all religion is from the outside in I've got to become something God makes you something I wrote this down he made you something and then he makes you something he made you holy and then he makes you holy there's this one time sanctification in your spirit your son of God ready for heaven the bride of Christ do you think he's going to marry you if you have stayed spotless no you're completely cleansed you're completely righteous but then you walk in this righteousness you just have to learn in your mind to walk like this it's like a little kid start growing up and walking the way you already are and that's why it's so awesome that we're not like other religions that just have to be kind of on this performance treadmill trying to be good trying to get better trying to always failing never getting there and for goodness sake we go on the line we actually come on the finish line we we've won we've won we've won the race it's finished and it's not because we've won the race it's because he run the race and he got the prize he's the victor but guess what he's in you now you are also the victor and so we walk around I am the victor I am the victor I am awesome in this way right because I won the prize because of him don't think it's ever about you by the way let's just make sure" [01:35:05] (94 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9) "this is where the changing from glory to glory if you look at 2 Corinthians 3 comes from as we look in the mirror we look at Jesus but you also see yourself and you've got to see yourself who you really are and when you do we are changed from glory to glory to glory to glory one level of another one not in your spirit you're heaven ready you're the bride of Christ no no in our soul in our minds in our emotions that's what God that's what he talks about Romans 12 Paul talks about do not be confirmed to the pattern of this world because you're living in this world and it's so opposite it's all about performance all about being good do good do good get good be good be bad do bad so that whole thing is in the world it's the world system it's actually a tree of the knowledge of good and evil did you know that that's why God never wanted us to go there we live in the tree of life this is good stuff Philippians so I want you to see that the starting point in your life as you become a Christian even 10 years ago when I was 50 years ago when I was 10 years old when I was born again I was perfect now I had a lot of pain in my life different things happened to me right but the thing is though I never knew this in the earlier days and I beat myself up man it was so bad but then when I got into this understanding of who I was it helped me to deal with the issues" [01:39:13] (84 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10) "we always talk about acceptance grace and also performance grace empowering grace see the acceptance grace goes before the empowering grace you gotta know who you are you gotta know what God has made you and then that lifts you up into this beautiful thing Philippians 2 says now you must continue to make this new life new life in your spirit fully manifested as you live in the holy awe of God and he will continually revitalize you implanting within you the passion that pleases you that is discipleship actually the same scripture is now work out your salvation working out your salvation with fear and trembling is not because you're fearing about your salvation you've got your salvation you've been made perfect once and for all but this whole thing talks about the fear and the awe and the majesty and the power and the glory of God that's who you are the son of God you love Jesus you love your heavenly father you love the holy spirit and you're in awe of him and that's why you walk like this I already know who I am but now in my life in my discipleship I'm trying to be more and more like him in my thought life in my emotions that are broken for whatever happened I want to be whole like I am in my born again spirit so that takes a journey it's aligning yourself all the time closer and closer to who you are in your born again spirit and that's absolutely beautiful and powerful last one I keep asking" [01:41:28] (82 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)