Freedom in Christ: Your Worth Is Already Secured

You see, they had they had accepted the work of Jesus. They didn't have an issue with Jesus. They believed that Jesus had forgiven them of their sins, that Jesus had had come and made them right with God, that they were accepted in love because of Jesus. But slowly, they began to lean back into their own performance. And instead of Jesus being enough, it was Jesus plus keeping the law. It was Jesus plus me proving myself. [00:39:49] (46 seconds)  #JesusIsEnough

And in fact, just I want us to think about that together for a minute like, if your peace, just think about this for yourself, if your peace disappears every time your performance slips, that's not freedom. If your identity rises and falls on what people think about you, that's not freedom. No. That's that's pressure. That's slavery. And if we're really being honest today, I think that we are actually a lot less free than we realize. [00:37:39] (46 seconds)  #FreedomFromApproval

And so we've kind of absorbed this idea in our culture that's everywhere. We it just kinda gets all over us, we just kinda get washed in it. That like our our value is earned. It's earned through our performance. It's earned through our success. It's earned through measuring up. And so because this feels so fragile, man we're constantly, instead of really living life, I'm gonna lean on this a little bit, we start managing life. We're managing what everybody else thinks about us. [00:36:22] (45 seconds)  #StopChasingApproval

And I tell you that because as I look back, that story is not really about basketball. No, it's about something different. You see every single one of us, we kinda We live with this underlying need to have some questions answered. Questions like, do I matter? Do I belong? Am I enough? And in this world, those things feel really fragile. And so we spend so much of our days trying to secure that. Trying to figure that out for ourselves. [00:35:03] (44 seconds)  #YouMatter