Finding True Identity in Christ's Love and Grace

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "If you want to be like Jesus here, and you want to stand like Jesus here, you're going to have people that will talk about you, and they're going to identify you in a certain way, even though you are like Jesus here. You are totally pure and loving and honest, but look what he says right here. Look at this verse right here. It says, verse 12, and I lost my place. It says, look, it says, Gentiles means the other nations of the world, but notice what they were doing to these Christians here. It says that whereas they speak against you as what? What were they calling the Christians? Evil doers. They may by your good works which they shall behold. In other words, they see how you act. When they talk about you, they see how you act. And there's only one explanation that they can turn around. They have to turn around and glorify God in the day of visitation here." [02:45] (64 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Now, you realize folks here, okay, people know what your beliefs are, okay? I identify as a, I don't, I pastor a Baptist church, but I tell people here, I am a Christian. I identify as a Christian. Amen? Okay? I have Baptist beliefs here, but I don't call myself a Baptist. You may call yourself a Baptist. Okay? I call myself a Bible believer. I'm a believing Christian, a follower of Jesus Yeshua here. That's what I tell people here. That's what I identify." [03:40] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "You know, people identify different people by their performance here. And I'll get to the scripture here, but some people identify a good basketball player. They say, hey, man, he's a great basketball player here, but he ends up in detention every day. Or a football player, okay? How many agree that? I agree with that. Our concept, and I'm a sports lover, but something's not right here if you can score the most touchdowns and you're in detention every day. Can I get an amen? Okay. But some people identify that person as that way here, okay? They are a performance. They can perform good, okay?" [07:47] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "You know, a lot of times people reject Jesus Christ, for hypocrites and church, think a mouse said amen, okay, but my point is okay here, a lot of people don't see a living Jesus, and Christians align, and they're identified, I'm not a Baptist, I'm not a, I'm not American, I'm not anything, I might have faults, but I identify, I'm a Christian Jesus Christ, a lot of people stumble over that, you know what, a lot of Christians need to repent, today, you know what repentance means folks, preachers included, repentance means a change of mind, which means a change of direction, I don't know about you, we need a change of mind, and change of direction in America, because you know what today, in Christianity today, we're playing church pretty good, we are, we know how to play the facts, amen, put a couple bucks in there, so every once in a while, show up here, but that will never glorify God." [32:08] (66 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "Now, you realize folks here, when I see now, God's living in me here, that's exciting. That, that God lives in this house. How many have ever seen that old show, Fix It Up show Saturday morning? This old house, you probably watched that, Aaron. They go in there and they remodel that old house. Well, what Peter's doing, he's identifying these Christians and he's trying to say here that a stone, now, try to picture this for a second. Try to picture building a house or a temple with stone. And if I go up here out of the rocks and I wish I would have brought a rock and I would have said, grow, grow, grow. Is a rock a living thing? No. But the Bible says, that, that when you come to Jesus, you come to him as a living stone. Somebody that is alive. Now, do you realize folks here, our God is alive and we need to be showing people that we believe, we see ourselves, as God is alive in us, he's working in our hearts, we are his people, and we will act like him, live like him, love like him, help like him." [19:51] (74 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "Now, you understand here, there's a problem here in this particular culture. They were exiles, and they were Christians here, and everybody around them was identifying them as evildoers and calling them names here. And Peter's going to write to them, and he's going to tell them some things, who they really are. He going to let them see who they are. They're not evildoers. They're not bad people here. They are the people of God. They have special privileges. Now, I want you to look at 1 Peter 2 very quickly at verse 4 here. I want you to see here how he's going to encourage these people. We're going to look at verses 4 probably to verse 10 today here, and we're going to see here who God, how we see ourself, identify as ourself, and we're also going to see here how do we identify Christ, how do we see him, and then we're going to see here how do we see what God wants us to do here. Does God want us to cave into the pressures of the way people see here? I don't know about you. I don't want to cave into anything biblically that I stand on. Amen? I don't care what anybody talks about me, says about me, identifies me here. I want to be like Jesus Christ and stand on the word of God on anything here." [16:45] (84 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "You know the good thing about God? When we identify us this way, we can't see it. Brittany, can you see anything? Can you see your faults? Can you see your failures? You can't even see your appearances, right? Okay. Ronnie, you can't see Debbie. And she's about ready to take a fist up beside you. No, I'm just kidding. Okay, okay. But Phil, you can't see anything, right? Okay. Jim, you can't see the sweet lady beside you, right? You can't see anything. Okay, you realize, folks, the only way you see things is not by what people say about you. It's we need to see what God says about us. And when we identify who God says about who we are, then we get an accurate view. What color shirt Brittany's got on, Brittany? What color shirt you got on? Are you holding hands with Nick? I can see it this way from heaven, but can you see it, Nick? You better be able to. Amen. Natalie, I can see a smile back there on your face, right? Can you see your smile?" [15:06] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "Now, you realize folks here, you are uniquely placed and made for a reason, you understand here, you're no joke, your life has a purpose, God, when he was building this house here, he said, I want to put a stone here, I want to put a stone here, they may be all different here, but inside of that house, I have different people, that have different talents, but through that, God gets glorified, now, aren't you glad that we're all different here, and God says in this house here, I'm going to put a bunch of different stones, in different places here, different nationalities, different cultures, different personalities, how many realize that we're all totally different, we all come from different backgrounds here, but God says, I want them there, I want them there, I want them to come to me, and I want to live inside of them, and that's what makes Christianity so unique." [24:19] (59 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Now, you know what, I don't want people to say, I don't want to say, I don't want you to say, I go to pastor Stanley's church, I'm honored as a pastor when you say that, I want you to say, I'm a member of Jesus Christ's church, not the church of Christ, can I get an amen, okay, but my point is okay here, I want you to say here, that my, I'm a house, I'm a house, God lives inside of me, I identify, God's living in me, but I also identify, that I am, in line with Jesus Christ, now let me ask you a question here, can you honestly say right now, that you're in line with Christ, because every once in a while, houses get out of line right, and they shift, the wise man builds his house upon a rock, the foolish man build his house upon a what, and it all came down, you realize folks, there's churches, there's people, there's individuals, that they're out of line, but they can't see it, they can't see it, now there's a problem, if you identify as a Christian, if you're out of line, you may not see it, but other people see it, you understand, if you're living like a hypocrite, and at work, other people see it, and they don't want it, so you need to check yourself, every once in a while, you need to check, ladies." [29:14] (76 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "Now, you understand here, there's a problem here in this particular culture. They were exiles, and they were Christians here, and everybody around them was identifying them as evildoers and calling them names here. And Peter's going to write to them, and he's going to tell them some things, who they really are. He going to let them see who they are. They're not evildoers. They're not bad people here. They are the people of God. They have special privileges. Now, I want you to look at 1 Peter 2 very quickly at verse 4 here. I want you to see here how he's going to encourage these people. We're going to look at verses 4 probably to verse 10 today here, and we're going to see here who God, how we see ourself, identify as ourself, and we're also going to see here how do we identify Christ, how do we see him, and then we're going to see here how do we see what God wants us to do here. Does God want us to cave into the pressures of the way people see here? I don't know about you. I don't want to cave into anything biblically that I stand on. Amen? I don't care what anybody talks about me, says about me, identifies me here. I want to be like Jesus Christ and stand on the word of God on anything here." [16:45] (84 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)