As a Believer 2.0 //Positional Holiness vs Behavioral Holiness// Pastor Keenen Worrell

We will not see perfection until we get to heaven. So get that out your mind. Holiness is not perfection. It is being set apart and progressively becoming like his character because we believe that's who we already are in him. Stop trying to earn what you already have. Stop performing for an approval that's already been given to you. [00:27:49] (32 seconds)  #HolinessNotPerfection

Because if I'm holy because Jesus made me holy, then when I choose to live a holy life, I'm not doing it because I'm afraid that God is gonna strike me down. I'm not doing it because I'm afraid something bad is going to happen to me. I'm not doing it because I'm afraid that God is gonna leave me if I mess up. I'm doing it because I believe that I am a child of God. [00:25:17] (23 seconds)  #LiveFromIdentity

Too many times and too much of our time as believers, get this, we've been trying to will our way to right behavior. If I could just do right, and I'm just trying to do right through effort, I'm trying to do right, I'm trying to do it, I'm trying to stay on the path, I'm trying to not sin, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying Instead of just being settled in your position in who you are as holy, set apart for God's purpose. [00:18:32] (41 seconds)  #BeliefBeforeBehavior

We fall into old habits and before we know it, we just give up. We give up altogether and that is exactly what the enemy wants. That is exactly what he is hoping for. solution to right behavior isn't more rules. It isn't better systems. It is right believing. When we are settled in our heart about who we are, when we are settled in our hearts that we are holy, our behavior then adjusts to that belief. [00:21:39] (45 seconds)  #BelieveNotRules

But believing it so deeply that it starts to shape how we think. It starts to shape what we desire and ultimately how we live. That's when real transformation happens. Happens. That's when we stop being a Christian who's who's who's trying trying and trying through self effort. And we start being a Christian that is set free by the grace of God. That is settled in the grace of God. [00:26:36] (33 seconds)  #TransformedByGrace

Our behavior will always be limited by our belief about who we are. So the real work, ladies and gentlemen, is not behavior modification. It is renewing our mind. It is looking at what the scripture says about us and and acknowledging, admitting, receiving the fact that it is true. Actually believing that what this book says about us is true. Not just reading it and saying, oh, yeah. I guess that's what it says. [00:25:59] (38 seconds)  #RenewYourMind

chose you before the foundation of the world. That is not a maybe, that is not if you're good enough, that is not if you do this penance, if you say this, if your actions does this, you are holy. It is a done deal. When you receive Jesus, what he did on Calvary counts for you. You are holy, full stop. You're not working towards holiness, you're working from holiness. [00:08:18] (36 seconds)  #ChosenAndHoly

But just imagine if if if you are someone who who who who has been living, you know, this this this life and and you're like, oh, you know, I I don't have any money for this. I don't have no money for this. This becomes a life for you, and you're scrounging, and you're scraping, and just to put stuff together, and then you find out. You go get this 23 in me, and you find out that you are royalty. [00:17:04] (28 seconds)  #DiscoverYourRoyalty

Because of your new position, there should be new behavior. Now, for example, before I got married to Sonya, I'm ashamed to say this, but I was free to flirt with girls and I did so. could get their numbers. I was free to keep my options open. After I got married, that changed. Not because the laws changed, not because she forced me, but because my position changed. [00:10:44] (39 seconds)  #PositionChangesBehavior

And from that place of security, let your behavior begin to align with who you actually are. Not from striving, from believing. freedom. freedom. That is the life that we were made for. holy. And we, by the grace of God every day, are becoming holy. Do not let the enemy deceive you any longer. Do not let him rob you any longer and pull you into shame and condemnation based on your behavior. You are holy. [00:28:57] (61 seconds)  #LiveFromSecurity

And that behavior change was progressive and I wanted to make that behavior change because of who I was in a relationship with. And because I love the person that I was in a relationship with, it began to, make me want to change my behavior to be in align with the person that I was in a relationship with. behavioral holiness. Because of who I was, my behavior had to line up with my position. [00:14:26] (43 seconds)  #BehaviorFromBelonging

Receive that identity. I I I know, oh, you don't understand what I did. You're still holy. You don't understand what I'm walking through. People still say holy. Holy is who you are. Receive that. Walk in it. Then your behavior will begin to line up with your position. Heavenly Father, thank you. [00:30:06] (26 seconds)  #ReceiveYourIdentity

Listen, we don't overcome the world. You don't overcome your sin. You don't overcome that thing. You don't overcome all the things that you're trying to overcome by better behavior. We overcome by believing that we are faith, belief is how we get victory. Once we grasp the fact that we are already positionally holy, it changes things. [00:24:39] (39 seconds)  #VictoryByFaith

When we stand before Jesus, he's not gonna ask us about our theology. He's not gonna ask us if we got all the doctrine right. I believe he will look at us and he will ask us, did you believe who I told you that you were and did you live like you belonged to me? As a believer, we have been called to a life of holiness set apart, perfection. [00:27:10] (39 seconds)  #DidYouBelieve

then their behavior will begin to line up with the fact that they are enough. And so I don't address behavior, I address who you are. Oh, this happened, that happened. I I tell him, hey, you know who we are. You know who you are. We gotta act like you. [00:23:51] (30 seconds)  #IdentityFirst

Our focus can't behavior. It has to be this, what do I believe about who I am? What do I believe about who I am? Every morning, every day, before my kids leave, we have something that we say. Well, I pray over them and I say, you have one job today and then I say, what is it? And they say, be amazing. I say, you are loved and they say, and I am enough. [00:22:24] (41 seconds)  #DailyIdentityAffirmation

When we gave our life to Christ, when we gave our life to Christ, God didn't make us holy because we deserved it. He declared us and positioned us as holy in Christ. That is our position. Positional holiness, when we accept our position, then we begin to live like who we actually [00:06:36] (37 seconds)  #PositionalHoliness

Once you see that piece of paper that says who you are, your behavior will begin to change based on your new identity. Am I right? Oh, they ain't gonna be able to tell you nothing. Yo. Yo. You your your shoulders back, your head is up, you ignoring people as they talk to you because they didn't address you as your royal highness, as your quimacu. They they [00:17:38] (36 seconds)  #IdentityChangesPosture

Because from an early age, I want them to know their position. Because when they understand their position, their if if they know that they are amazing, if they're settled in the fact that they're amazing, their behavior begins to line up with the fact that they are amazing. If they are settled in the fact that they are loved, then their behavior begins to line up with the fact that they are loved. If they are settled in the fact that no matter who shows up, where they at, what's going on that they are enough, [00:23:17] (34 seconds)  #RaiseThemInIdentity