"Uncontestable Identity/ Unlimited Impact Pt.1: ft. Todd White" S1 Ep18

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Ordinary people lead ordinary lives.

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They do ordinary things and die ordinary deaths.

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An event filled and alternate change.

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Meanwhile, nobody wants to follow ordinary.

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If there's a conflict, because within the heart

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is a tendency of wanting to blend in,

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but an identity waiting to bust out.

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On this episode of Keep It 100,

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we hit the table to talk about the battleground of identity

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and hear from international evangelist, Todd White.

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Welcome to Keep It 100 podcast

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with Sean and Christa Smith.

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Join us in this space where we take on real issues.

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With real insight, your real inspiration.

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This podcast is for those not looking for temporary relief

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to change circumstance,

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but revelation to forever change lives.

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Welcome, everybody, to Keep It 100 with Sean and Christa Smith.

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Come on, we are anticipating an awesome time with you today.

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So glad you decided to tune in,

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and we've got some great things in store for you.

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You know, I was just thinking about this,

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that there is a unique intensity in the times

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that we're living in right now.

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It is so true.

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I've never been in a time of history like we're in right now.

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I've lived through multiple presidential elections,

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but nothing like this.

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Agreed, agreed.

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This recent poll experience and election has been one hot mess,

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if I'm to be honest.

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Someone had a meme that American Idol can count 130 million votes

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during the commercial break, and there's no excuse for this.

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You know, that is hilarious and actually true.

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It is amazing how long this is taking.

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What has made this election so unique is that we've had counts and recounts,

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accusation of voter fraud, an insistence that people would be there

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and witness people counting.

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We've had premature declarations.

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We've had lawsuits that have covered the news and political websites.

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And there's even this incredible place where I saw this article

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that hospitals have even increased their capacity

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for what's called election stress treatment.

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Wait, what?

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Yes, that people are so stressed out by it not being decided who their leader is

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that hospitals, they have an increased capacity for what is called election stress treatment.

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Oh my goodness.

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You know, that is sad, but it shows you the current state of where we're really at in our nation.

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You know, what's interesting is Time Magazine has an article that's coming out

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November 16th this year about the current elections, and it said,

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but this is 2020, the year of the plague, the year of the unexpected, of course it would not be that easy.

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Both sides were hoping for a knockout below a landslide that would forever settle the question

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of which version of America prevails.

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Instead, our identity crisis continues.

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And really, don't you agree, Sean, that is really what is happening.

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We are in a national identity crisis.

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I'm going to take it one step further and say the church is in an identity crisis.

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And really, I think maybe for more people than we think,

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the real pandemic is an identity crisis because we really don't know who we are in these times.

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That is so accurate.

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There is this, and it's funny, all these commercials that are on identity theft,

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and it seems like in the midst of this, somebody's trying to hijack and steal our identity as a

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nation and even as the people of God.

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Let's take a moment right now to define what identity is.

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Here's a definition of identity.

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It is the sum of everything that shapes us, that frames our actions,

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and communicates to others who we are.

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So think about it.

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When you talk about identity, it's what shapes you.

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So those thoughts that you hold in your mind about yourself, it shapes you.

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You're being transformed into the very thoughts you hold.

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It frames your actions.

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Your actions are going to come out of how you see yourself,

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and it's going to communicate to others who you are.

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Right now, we want to give you three components that will help you grasp the concept of identity.

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Number one, your identity is your worldview.

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And what we mean by worldview is that it shapes all your choices.

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Your identity is so important that you're going to actually make decisions based on your identity,

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how you see yourself, and how you see yourself ultimately becomes the lens in which you see

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the world around you.

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But here's the challenge.

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The challenge is to see yourself as God sees you, not see yourself the way Madison Avenue sees you,

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not see yourself the way social media sees you, not see yourself the way this group or that group

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sees you. You have to see yourself as God sees you, because when you see yourself as God sees you,

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then you see the world as God sees the world.

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And when that happens, here is the benefit, Keeper 100 tribe.

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It helps you not overreact on every little matter that arises.

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That's right.

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Identity could be the cure to the stress that many people are feeling right now,

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because our identity ultimately tells us where we belong.

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We belong to the people of God. Before we belong to any group, any other affiliation,

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we belong to the people of God.

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And identity answers this question once and for all.

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You know, another component to help you grasp the concept of identity is your identity is what you

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look to define you.

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So really, what is the source of your identity?

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That is a big question we're all facing and asking.

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It's the one that has to be answered.

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Some people are looking to materialism, relationships, money, education, the job they have,

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the car they drive, where they live, who they're connected with, who they're not connected with.

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And too many of us are forming our identity around moving parts,

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meaning things that aren't stable, things that aren't secure,

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things that are not rooted and grounded in the Lord.

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People's identity is often summed up with, I am what I do, what I desire and what I have.

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And when what we do defines us, the problem with that is it can be switched off and on.

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So it's not stable.

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Facts.

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If we find our identity in things that are out of our hands and things that are fleeting and

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changing constantly, therefore our worth, our value, our purpose, and how we see ourselves

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will change consistently because it's not in a stable anchor, which is the Lord.

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I love that.

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You know, last component to help you grasp the concept of identity is your identity is ultimately

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the deciding factor of your destiny.

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Here's truth, your spiritual DNA allows you to manifest God and dominion of the earth.

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If you know who you are, then you know the authority that you've been given to live with.

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I know certain ministers will have their congregants hold up the Bible and says,

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this is my Bible.

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I am what it says I am.

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I could do what it says I could do and claim the promises that it says that I have.

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And that is actually an illustration of your point that it becomes the deciding factor of your

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destiny.

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So good.

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Keep your 100th tribe.

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We've got a big surprise for you right now.

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I first met this mighty man of God probably about a dozen years ago.

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We were both being interviewed and on a CBN segment as Pat Robertson's network.

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And I had written a book, prophetic evangelism and this great mighty man of God.

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After I talked about it, they went to this video and they showed this evangelist that had dreads.

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He was out on the street by the name of Todd White.

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And I saw him out there and he's getting words of knowledge.

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He was weeping with people that had chemical dependencies, people that others had given

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up on their disenfranchise.

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He was leading them to the Lord praying for the sick.

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And I could immediately tell something was different about him.

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And I love this guy immediately.

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We've been friends ever since.

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Join me now for this green room conversation with Todd White.

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Hey, Keep your 100th tribe.

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I have Todd White, who is the founder and president of Lifestyle Christianity.

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They have a university.

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They have a church now.

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This precious brother-in-his-wife Jackie, Christa and I have sat and broke bread at their house.

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I've been able to jump in with him on some power and love schools.

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I've been blessed that he has brought me along.

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I've been to Perth, Australia with him, Kirishiba, Brazil, a whole bunch of places.

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And he has been featured in Father of Lights videos and God uses them mightily.

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And so I just want to welcome right now Todd White.

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What's up, bro?

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Hey, good morning.

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It's so good to be with you, man.

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I love you with all of my heart, man.

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Likewise.

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Hey, man, we're just going to jive right in this, man.

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You have to share with us.

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Todd, what has God been doing with you in this time of international global pause, quarantine?

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What has God been saying to you?

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Wow.

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So much I've been going through the most amazing pruning in my whole life where God has just been

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scraping the inside of my heart from any kind of debris that doesn't belong there,

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from any kind of busyness that doesn't belong there.

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Actually, it was so crazy.

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You know, when this whole COVID thing started and God just started this pruning,

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he started to go deep on me, deeper than ever before.

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And I had an amazing relationship with the Lord.

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I was disciplined and I was militant about making sure that I would come away with him

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and then I would be with him and then I would go into the secret place and I would seek him

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in the secret.

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There was never a question of whether I was going to go in.

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And it was about prayer.

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It was about reading.

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It was about fellowshiping and hearing his voice because faith doesn't come by having

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heard, faith comes by hearing.

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And I've been really blessed and really thankful over my life of 16 years of Christianity

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to dive in deep with him.

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But this season that looked like catastrophe and looked like the biggest storm that we've

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ever gotten hit by, people have called it this and called it that and said,

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God did this and God did that.

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And I would like to say that no matter what comes your way, God can make lemonade out of

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any lemons that come your way, but it's not God that gives those lemons to begin with.

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Because all things that come to steal, kill and destroy come from the devil's hand.

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They do not come from the Father.

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Say that.

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Say that.

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So knowing that and prioritizing that, that God's not in control of the storm, making

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it come your way, choosing to kill this one, make this one sick.

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He's not choosing that.

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He actually wants us to press in.

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So this has been an amazing season for me of pruning, of being strengthened in my inner

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man to know his love that abounds far higher, further, wider, deeper than anything before.

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And my whole life has just turned completely inside out with extravagant love.

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And I've stepped into a place of adoration like I've never known before.

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I've stepped into a place of a manifest presence of the Lord where I found that over all these

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years I would make sure that I made time to be with him.

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But because I had so many things to do and so many things to keep straight and had family,

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had ministry, had all these things, and had the school here, I just want to make sure that

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everything's done with diligence.

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But by that, what happened is that I feel as if I was committing spiritual adultery on the Lord

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through the active art of busyness.

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And so busyness had become this adulterous affair that I had no idea was even happening.

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I had no clue.

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It was just the way that things were going because I wasn't going to let anything drop.

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And so what happened out of that is the equation equaled me squatting at the feet of Jesus instead

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of sitting at the feet of Jesus.

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And I entered into this place of sitting at his feet and drinking from the cup in his hands

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and being able to truly adore and to truly fall in love all over again with this great

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King of glory that shows me that I didn't choose him.

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He chose me and he chose to come and make himself known to me.

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You know, the Bible talks about knowing God.

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It doesn't talk about knowing about God.

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It talks about knowing him.

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Jesus says in John 17.3 that this is the eternal life, that they might know you, the only true

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God and Jesus Christ, the one whom you have sent.

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It's in the Lord's prayer, not our Father who art in heaven, hell, be thy name.

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That's the Lord model that he modeled that and said, this is the model prayer, but the Lord's

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prayer is John 17.

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And he talked about knowing the Father.

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Now, I would have told you before this that I knew him and I did, but there's more.

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It's so important that we understand there's more.

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So during this time, and as a matter of fact, it's been nine months and that nine months has

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been labor, that nine months of labor has allowed me to now give birth to intimacy in a way that

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I've never known before.

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And I have been stepping into this place of newfound love and just this first love that

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is more extravagant than anything I've ever seen before, I've ever known before to where

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his presence that has come through visitations before has now set up and become a constant

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avatation in my life.

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So I've moved in a place, he's moved me because it's all by grace through faith.

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He's moved me from a place of visitation to where he would visit me to where, and I know

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it because in the Bible it says in Christ, in us the hope of glory.

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So God says, I'll never leave you nor forsake you and he won't.

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So he's there, no matter what.

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But righteousness isn't just a position, righteousness is a lifestyle.

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And that lifestyle leads to greater intimacy.

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That lifestyle leads to a greater perception of the fear of the Lord, which is the beginning

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of wisdom.

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The reality of being in love with Jesus dispels everything else from trying to come my way

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and to come across my screen.

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God sits in the theater room of my soul and judges everything and sees everything that

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goes across my screen.

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It wasn't like there was sin and twisted stuff.

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I never got into pornography or just life.

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I didn't get into that.

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I just was in busyness of ministry trying to make sure that nothing fell through.

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And God said, pause, sit back, breathe.

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And I've been in a place of rest like I've never known before.

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So the priority of laying my head on a pillow, which is the Lord's chest when I go to sleep

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at night, turning my affection to adoration and adoring him.

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As I drift off to sleep on God's heart, which is my pillow, he ministers to me all night

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long.

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My heart is wide awake as I sleep.

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And when I awake in the morning, I awake with the warm embrace of his love for me, the

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reality of his goodness meeting me and his mercies are brand new.

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When I go into my prayer room, which is not out of diligence, but it's out of a hopeful

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expectation that love is going to meet me there.

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And when I step in there, I encounter him like I've never encountered him before.

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I left a whole night of encounter to enter into my morning of a continued encounter.

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It's amplified because my mind has been asleep at night and my heart has been wide awake.

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Now when my mind comes awake in the morning, it is trumped by a heart that is continually

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within his presence.

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And he meets me there and I sit there for hours in a place of adoration and love when

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his manifest presence comes and blankets me and enables me to sit in this place of union

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and communion that I've never known before.

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It is the most outrageous place of victory.

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And God has created every believer so only actually every person on the earth can only

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be satisfied with union and communion.

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It's not about just knowing about God.

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It's about knowing him and it's not just about knowing him.

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It's about being known by him.

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So when my knowing him and being known by him come together, all of a sudden the intensity

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of identity is strengthened inside of my heart and upon my life and everywhere I go, I get

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to have his manifest presence flowing through me.

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Words of knowledge, the prophetic, healing, all the gifts that are in the Bible, all

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1 Corinthians 12, all of them are totally activated when sonship is a priority and righteousness

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is the foundation.

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I do not even have to seek after that because God will flood me with that and all day long

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He will enable me to function in whatever gift is necessary because the giver of gifts,

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the Father of lights, has come and is within me and is now resting upon me in a complete

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union and communion of relationship that can't be infiltrated by sin any longer.

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It is beautiful, man.

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Man, I literally, I could just run with you on that.

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I just want to say to our listeners, this is exactly the word of the Lord in this season.

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I believe the Lord has allowed all these disconnections to happen so that we would strengthen the

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one vital connection we all must have.

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And there's so many messages that are floating around.

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You see so many people walking in fear.

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We're in a place where there's a worldwide identity crisis and what you're sharing right

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now is literally the crux of it all.

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It's what is it.

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Peter was on the Mount of Transfiguration.

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He looked up and I think in the King James it says he saw no one save Jesus.

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In other words, he saw Jesus and we got to get to that.

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I love your message you carry on identity.

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Let me ask you, Todd, what do you see as an obstacle to having a healthy identity in Christ?

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Yet yourself.

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Your biggest obstacle is yourself.

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The biggest obstacle to identity is yourself is being so focused on you that you can't

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focus on him as being so focused on what you're going through that we can't see what he's

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went through.

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It's by being so focused on the things that you need to do instead of the one thing that's

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necessary and that's sitting at the feet of Jesus.

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We can become so occupied with self and we can be occupied with self in the name of Jesus.

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And it's absolutely ridiculous when we can't afford to go down that road.

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One of the things that probably has, it's hard for me to talk about it, probably has

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troubled my heart more than anything.

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And some people have said, well, Todd's against certain ministries or Todd's against this

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or Todd's against that.

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No, what I am is I am for Jesus.

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I am for love.

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I am for people understanding the price that was paid for them that determines their value.

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And so many people have said, they've come up short in worth.

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They've come up short in value.

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They've come up short in the reality of how they see themselves.

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And again, yourself is in the way again because it's not about you.

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It's about him.

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And God took all those things into consideration and much more when he chose to redeem you

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and his thoughts for you were far outweigh any thoughts that you could think about yourself.

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If it says in Psalm 139 that his thoughts for me outnumber the grain of sand in all

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the world, that every grain represents a thought for my welfare and he has more thoughts

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for each person that outnumber all the grains of sand.

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If I've got a hold of some of those thoughts, my whole life would change.

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But instead we're thinking about our faults, our failures, our shortcomings, the way that

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we were rejected coming up, the way that our mom didn't want us, our dad didn't want us,

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how we were treated, how people have said to us, even coming into the church, all of

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a sudden how leaders treated us and how I've been hurt by them.

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And all of a sudden that pain and that stuff so outweighs the reality of the truth of who

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Jesus is.

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And so, Jesus, if we went through what Jesus went through, we would have been able to see

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what he would be, complete basket cases.

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I mean, picture this.

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Jesus knows everything.

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He comes here, he's never sinned, he's never been apart from the Father.

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So he's born into this world, he grows up in the same world that we do.

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He is tempted at all points, not at some points.

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He's not just tempted at the points that Todd has been tempted at, he's tempted at the points

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that all humanity could ever be tempted at.

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He's tempted with everything.

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And so he goes through all that without sin.

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He was made in the likeness of sinful flesh, came here and his flesh never sinned.

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So powerful.

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Like his heart for the Lord was everything because it wasn't just doing this for God,

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he was doing this because you were the joy set before him.

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So he pursued the cross at all costs, no matter what, just to get there because he

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knew that once he got there, was crucified, died, and was resurrected and went to sit

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at the right hand of the Father, you could be joyfully accepted and not strategically

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rejected, that there's no possible way that anything could ever separate you from the

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love of God that's in Christ Jesus.

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But when I look at Romans 8 and it talks about the things that could separate me, it seems

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like the list is so full that there's absolutely nothing.

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But when I look at that scripture, it says in verse 38, I am fully persuaded that neither

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death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things

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to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us

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from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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The reality of God's love is what he wants us to encounter.

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Jesus who knew no sin became sin so that I might become the righteousness of God that's

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in Christ Jesus.

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I have to see what I've become and I have to see what could separate me from becoming.

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This is so important.

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It says death, life, angels, principalities, powers, things present, things to come.

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Your past isn't on this list because your past has the other ability to separate you

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from God's love.

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Me looking back at things that God no longer remembers is a crazy place to live.

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The devil knows that if he can get you focused on what you cannot go back and change, you

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will be in a place of guilt, shame, and condemnation for life.

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If I'm focused on what I cannot change, it leaves me with an hopeless outcome.

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Therefore, hope deferred makes my heart sick and my heart is completely sick.

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When I step into the reality of righteousness, my heart being sick is replaced by being love

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sick.

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My heart being sick is one thing where I can never get past it and the devil wants you

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to look in hindsight because you can never fix that.

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You can never go back.

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God knew that you can never go back so he wiped out the transgressions against you, the handwriting

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against you, the Colossians do.

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It is wiped out.

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He completely made a public spectacle of the powers and principalities.

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There's nothing that they can do to change this.

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But forever has sealed this and the cross, the Calvary, is the greatest victory that

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we could ever know.

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We need to dive into the cross.

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We need to see what the blood of Jesus has done.

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Hebrews talks about the blood of Jesus cleansing our conscience from dead works.

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If the blood of Jesus doesn't do the active work on the conscience, then we still live

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with guilt, shame, condemnation, regret.

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Those things are wiped out completely through Calvary and that no longer has a voice.

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Self-control is being so focused on his voice that every other voice loses its voice because

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I am in love with the one that's called me.

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I am beholding forever the Lamb of God.

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My gaze is restored and I am now gazing at the Father.

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Looks at me with pure love and no regret, guilt, shame or condemnation upon that.

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Now I'm in Christ, a brand new creation.

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Old things have passed away.

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All things have become new.

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Now I need to walk in the newness of life that He created me to be.

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The renewal of the mind is crucial, especially now.

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Man-Covid has caused people to go introspective, to look inside in the wrong way, has caused

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people to not use the weapons that we've been given to pull down every thought that tries

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to come against the knowledge of God.

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So in 2nd Corinthians chapter 10 verse 4, it says, the weapons of our warfare are mighty

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in God, mighty in pulling down every stronghold, taking every thought captive to the above.

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The obedience of the mind of Christ.

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Every thought.

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So any thought that comes against the knowledge of God or the knowledge of who God created

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me to be gets pulled down by the truth that is the word of God.

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We've tried to rebuke the devil to command him to get behind us and why would I command

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somebody that's beneath me to get behind me?

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We should not entertain the enemy's voice.

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Jesus said, my sheep will hear and obey my voice and as strangers they will not follow.

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When you listen to it, you're following it.

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We need to heed the shepherd because he's not just the anchor, he's not just the anchor,

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he's not just a crutch.

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He actually is the shepherd, the overseer of my soul.

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To whom I'm going to give an account when I stand before him.

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God loves us and he will never change his mind about us.

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A thousand years from now, God's not going to say, you know Todd, I made a mistake.

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I really shouldn't have let you in here.

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Absolutely opposite.

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The devil has been rejected.

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He's angry, depressed.

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He is completely hopeless and there'll never be victory for him.

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So he's trying to reproduce himself in the mindset of every Christian on the planet.

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Don't let the liar have his way with you.

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Make sure you walk in truth and make sure that you know who Jesus has called you to

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be.

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Live as a son, not as an orphan.

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God has adopted you and placed the spirit of adoption upon you.

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He will never ever look away from you.

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He is gazing on you, he is for you and greater is he that's in you than anything in this

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world.

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Man, I'm telling you what, I'm going to start calling you the spiritual oyster because

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you be dropping pearls, bro.

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Oh my goodness.

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Oh my goodness.

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Keep your 100 tribe.

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Let me tell you, every single thing he said is absolutely 100% about identity.

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It's so important.

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In fact, let me pitch you this question, kind of a two-part question.

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Why do you think identity matters so much?

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And then two, how did you develop your revelation of identity?

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People know that I was bound in sin and bound in atheism and drug addiction.

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You name it, I was bound in it for 22 years.

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I never knew who I was my whole life.

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I was always trying to be somebody else that I wasn't.

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I always looked to other people and I thought, man, if I could only get to where they are,

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most of those people, as a matter of fact, none of those people were Christians because

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I really didn't think that Christians had anything to offer me.

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So I stole from everybody else outside the church.

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Really no one shared the gospel with me, the good news, till I was 34 years old.

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It took me actually getting shot at to have an encounter with him.

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So my identity was wrapped up in singing in a band.

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My identity was wrapped up in being the life of the party.

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My identity was wrapped up in just whatever I could do to satisfy me.

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So my identity was wrapped up in selfishness.

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My identity was wrapped up in being the man when the Bible says clearly that Jesus, we

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have the man seated at the right hand.

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I had no idea it is so important in this hour.

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I cannot afford to go after who God's created me to be for any other purpose except being

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known by him and knowing him.

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I can't afford to go after my identity through wanting to have a big ministry.

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I can't afford to go after my identity through wanting to have a big business.

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I have to go after my identity strictly as son and daughter of the most high God to where

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I have the most amazing father.

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I would tell you that the priority of identity is so escalated, especially in this season.

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Like everything around us is going crazy, like the elections, like everything.

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It doesn't matter what it is.

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It's just going crazy.

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These whole riots that are everywhere.

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00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,080
It's trying to find our identity.

467
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Like we think that being a part of a riot establishes who we are and our rights.

468
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It's just not any good.

469
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,560
It's not helping anybody and it's hurting so many.

470
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:53,260
You have one man that had a horrible death that was by a police officer that took it

471
00:27:53,260 --> 00:27:55,720
way too far that it should have never done it.

472
00:27:55,720 --> 00:28:00,080
Then you have people that are killing police officers that are going after that to try

473
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:01,680
to justify a cause.

474
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:08,080
But really it's just a lost, fallen identity that's not being who God created you to be

475
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:09,080
to begin with.

476
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:14,080
It's so important that we could never listen to other voices except for our father's voice

477
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:18,960
because every voice leads us astray into something we were never created to be.

478
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:25,520
And only Jesus can give you the peace that you're looking for through everything else

479
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:26,880
that's out there.

480
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,400
That's the only thing that can matter.

481
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,400
That's the only thing that matters actually.

482
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:37,440
There's nothing else because nothing else can bring eternity into your today.

483
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,000
You can't afford to be up for sale for anything else.

484
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,480
And really when you give your identity to something else what you're doing is you're

485
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:47,920
selling cheap for something that's been paid such a high price for.

486
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,520
Alright, but let me ask you this question Todd.

487
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:55,440
What is the connection between our identity in Christ and the Kingdom impacting the world

488
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:56,440
through us?

489
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:57,440
Yeah.

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00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:03,600
Honestly Christ in us is the hope of glory but Christ coming out of us is that hope being

491
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:04,600
made manifest.

492
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:11,160
So the Kingdom of God is not meat or drink but is righteousness, peace and joy in the

493
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:12,160
Holy Ghost.

494
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,160
So the Kingdom is in the Holy Ghost.

495
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,800
And when I would say like where is the Holy Ghost?

496
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:18,800
Where is He?

497
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,720
All of us would say well He's in us.

498
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,000
He is in us but He also rests upon us.

499
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:29,320
So He's not to be in me like a lake with no outlet.

500
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:34,760
He is to be in me as rivers of living water that constantly have outlets.

501
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:39,240
So how can I affect the world with Kingdom through identity?

502
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:44,360
If I see who God's created me to be then I will see that when Jesus lived and walked

503
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:49,840
and was on this earth after he was baptized in the Holy Spirit and his ministry began

504
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:57,160
which was at the age of 30 for three and a half years it was so profuse through him as

505
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:58,160
God's man.

506
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,400
So you have the Father, you have the Son and you have the Holy Spirit.

507
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:08,440
So Jesus was a conduit for God the Holy Spirit to flow through on a continual basis.

508
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:14,160
Cities were changed, bodies were healed, devils were cast out, prophecy was given, words of

509
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:19,880
knowledge were given like the whole gamut of the Kingdom flowed through Jesus on this

510
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:20,880
planet.

511
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,120
And He says that we're supposed to follow Him.

512
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,760
He wouldn't tell us to follow Him if there was no way we could.

513
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:28,760
So crazy.

514
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:34,480
So now that I find out that the possibility of following Jesus is there I need to look

515
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:40,560
at what are the main ingredients for me to be able to function like Jesus says I can.

516
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:46,800
While Jesus was without sin there was absolutely no sin on his life and we know that humanity

517
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:53,040
has fallen because of the first Adam humanity took part in sin Jesus came to restore actually

518
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:57,680
humanity became sin because the reality of this thing is we weren't just born into it

519
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,760
we were cultivated by it.

520
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:01,920
We were cultivated by sin itself.

521
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:06,880
So our mindsets were cultivated by sin we grow up with the way that seems right to a man

522
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,080
and in the end it's destruction.

523
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,840
That's why the Bible says you must be born again.

524
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,320
So being born again means to be re-fathered.

525
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:15,320
Being re-fathered by what?

526
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,040
Being re-fathered by God the Father.

527
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:23,960
So now we're re-fathered by God the Father we've become born again and the same spirit

528
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:30,680
that raised Jesus from the dead comes with the package of personal born again adoption

529
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:35,160
to where the Holy Spirit, the same Holy Spirit that flowed through Jesus that did the works

530
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:36,520
that Jesus did.

531
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:40,360
Jesus said if you don't believe me through the things that I say at least believe me

532
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:45,640
through the works that I do for it's the Father that dwells in me that does the works the

533
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,600
Father was in him through agency of kingdom the kingdom of God's not me to drink but

534
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:54,360
righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost so the kingdom is in the Holy Ghost.

535
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:59,120
So Jesus was fully functional without sin and fully dependent upon the Holy Spirit or

536
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:00,200
the kingdom.

537
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:06,880
So Jesus hanging on the tree became sin so that you and I might become the righteousness

538
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:08,720
of God that's in Christ Jesus.

539
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:13,480
So when Jesus went down to the river Jordan and to get baptized John the Baptist said

540
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:18,800
you're coming to me for baptism yet I need yours and Jesus said no it is necessary so

541
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:24,720
that righteousness might be fulfilled meaning the fulfillment of righteousness for Jesus

542
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,880
was the completion of the law without missing anything.

543
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,080
So the Holy Spirit comes down upon Jesus because righteousness was attained.

544
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:39,080
When Jesus was crucified it says that he who knew no sin became sin so that I might become

545
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,880
the righteousness of God that's in Christ Jesus.

546
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:47,360
So when I see what I've become through identity I will hear the same voice that Jesus heard

547
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:51,960
this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased.

548
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:57,860
So now I start my life with being pleasing to the Father not because I've done it because

549
00:32:57,860 --> 00:33:03,680
all of my righteous acts they're all filthy rags but Jesus paid a price so that I could

550
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,440
become because of what he became.

551
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:12,760
If I don't see this see Jesus was marbing on any man he was whipped and bruised and broken

552
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,360
and stripped of everything.

553
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:21,840
On that cross you see this man crying out for the people that did it Father forgive them

554
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,600
they know not what they do.

555
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:28,080
He was crying out for humanity the ones that ripped his beard that spit in his face that

556
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:33,600
crowned him with thorns that shredded his flesh and Jesus it says on that tree in Isaiah

557
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:39,840
53 and 54 it says that Jesus was unrecognizable on that tree.

558
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:44,320
So on the tree you couldn't even recognize who was speaking the voice you could but the

559
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:48,080
flesh you couldn't because his body was marbing on any.

560
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:54,720
Jesus became unrecognizable so that you and I could become recognizable again.

561
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:58,240
He who knew no sin became sin so that you and I might become.

562
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,280
So he became something so we could become something.

563
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:07,240
Now when we get born again we're no longer sinners God sees us as saints.

564
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:08,800
He doesn't see us as sinners.

565
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:14,760
Yes the ability to sin is there but the habitual nature to do what we did and to be like we

566
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:19,600
were and to live like we were has been completely cut off from us.

567
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:27,200
Romans 7 the passion translation Romans 7 actually says that we were trafficked by sin.

568
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,920
We were trafficked like a sex trafficking ring.

569
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:35,800
We were trafficked by a sin ring by the ring of sin by the leader the enemy we were trafficked

570
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:41,500
we were brought out and that thing was cut off and now we were born again into a brand

571
00:34:41,500 --> 00:34:42,700
new kingdom.

572
00:34:42,700 --> 00:34:48,320
And because of that the influence that we can have on society is beyond anything we've

573
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:54,160
even touched or stepped into because Jesus had such an impact and then Jesus says in

574
00:34:54,160 --> 00:35:02,440
John 14 he who believes in me the same works that I do and greater works will they do because

575
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,200
I'm going to go to be with the Father.

576
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:08,880
What happened on the day of Pentecost Jesus is at the Father the disciples are all huddled

577
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:14,600
in a room praying Jesus sends the promise what happens the Holy Spirit when he comes

578
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:19,520
he convicts the world of three things of sin of righteousness and of judgment.

579
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:23,600
Jesus said of sin because they don't believe in me of righteousness because I'm going to

580
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:29,280
go to be with the Father and of judgment because the ruler of this world has been judged.

581
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:34,080
So of righteousness the Holy Spirit convicts of righteousness so the very Peter that denied

582
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:39,480
Jesus was the one that got convicted of righteousness when the great Holy Ghost came upon him he

583
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:43,800
preached the first message to people that he was afraid of before who was changed into

584
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:48,520
a different man who his identity was about to demonstrate what the kingdom looks like

585
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:53,400
on society and the very people that hung Jesus on a tree said we are cut to the heart what

586
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:59,960
shall we do and three thousand people were added that one day without a microphone amazing

587
00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:05,160
that is what kingdom identity does on society when someone gets possessed with the freedom

588
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:10,480
of God if anybody had the right to look back and be sad about what he did it would have

589
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:16,200
been the one that denied Jesus that's not that's not okay that we could think that Peter

590
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:20,840
would live with that guilt for the rest of his life Jesus had to do something so miraculous

591
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:26,760
how wonderful that would be when you're convicted of righteousness your past no longer exists

592
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:31,560
and only today and tomorrow exists and you have no right to revisit your past apart from

593
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:36,800
the blood of Jesus and the testimony of what he's done for you instead of living in a place

594
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:42,040
of regret of what he needs to do for you it's already been done it's already finished the

595
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:47,040
bails been torn enter into his presence behind the bale live in righteousness and affect the

596
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:48,200
world through kingdom.

597
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:53,120
Man thank you so much Todd I'm serious I'm trusting people are going to really get this

598
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:59,520
your revelation of identity has launched this soul winning movement and I really believe

599
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:03,920
that God has raised up a breed of people that are walking in holiness they're walking in

600
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:09,120
intimacy they want depth and that they know who they are as a son and a daughter the most

601
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:14,760
high God Todd man I love you bro I love you man give our love and big hug to Jackie and

602
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,120
the kids thank you I love you too.

603
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:24,040
Wow I mean that was an incredible conversation who Todd is and the Lord is not only inspiring

604
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:29,320
it's challenging and you know what I love about him is he refuses to allow his past

605
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:34,880
to define him and I think that's such a powerful thing for the Kippu 100 tribe to really pull

606
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:39,440
on in their own life and you none of us have walked it perfect all of us have mistakes and

607
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:43,560
regrets and we look at our life and we can allow those things to define us or we can

608
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,200
allow those things to propel us into the love and the lap of Jesus which is what Todd's

609
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:52,440
done there is such a beautiful affection and love for Jesus because there's such a gratitude

610
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:54,320
in what the Lord has done in his life.

611
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:55,320
That's so accurate.

612
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:56,320
Love that.

613
00:37:56,320 --> 00:38:00,400
Hey keep it 100 tribe we want to give you some additional takeaways that help you discover

614
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:05,160
your identity because we believe in you and we want to help equip and call out who God

615
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:06,160
has called you to be.

616
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:11,720
The first takeaway you discover your identity by receiving revelation from your maker.

617
00:38:11,720 --> 00:38:13,600
Identity is a gift from God.

618
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,280
Identity is how God sees us.

619
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:21,960
Knowledge of who you really are in Christ is vitally essential to uncontestable identity

620
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:23,480
which is what we're talking about.

621
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,680
When it's uncontestable it means the enemy can't talk you out of it.

622
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:32,360
I 100% agree with that and we really need to discover that by a revelation from our

623
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:33,360
maker.

624
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:37,120
It's funny because even today we're walking past the Apple Store when something goes wrong

625
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:40,560
with our MacBook or iPad we don't take it to Samsung.

626
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,440
Because they weren't the maker or manufacturer.

627
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:43,760
We take it to Apple.

628
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:48,360
And so often if you want to discover your identity it's not something you sit around

629
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,200
and allow the Twitterverse to decide for you.

630
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:55,120
You've got to get revelation by getting alone with God and let Him speak inside of you.

631
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:56,120
Come on.

632
00:38:56,120 --> 00:39:00,000
The second additional takeaway that will help you discover identity is you discover your

633
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,640
identity by renewing your mind.

634
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:04,680
And renewing your mind in what?

635
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,080
It's reading what the Bible has to say about you.

636
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:11,360
Reading what the Bible says that you are as a new creation in Christ Jesus.

637
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,040
Bible says old things have passed away but old things have become new.

638
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:19,200
You're not just the child of a woman or a mom that was in pain or a dad that bolted or

639
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:23,840
a dad that was so busy climbing a corporate ladder and having his laptop open that you

640
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:25,320
didn't get lap time.

641
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:29,600
You discover your identity not by those in the past, not by looking in the review mirror

642
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,600
but the windshield of God's Word.

643
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,880
And the question is what do you allow to define you?

644
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,840
And that is an important question you have to ask.

645
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:41,120
Proverbs 23.7 says, For a man thinks in his heart so is he.

646
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,480
So your identity is going to be formed by the thoughts you hold in your head.

647
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:49,880
So you have to refuse the labels heaven has not given you and see yourself the way God

648
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:50,880
sees you.

649
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:55,760
The third and final takeaway that will help you discover your identity is you discover

650
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,960
your identity by contending against the accuser.

651
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:05,720
The devil was doing identity theft since the garden and you can't allow the enemy to rob

652
00:40:05,720 --> 00:40:07,360
you of your identity.

653
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:08,360
So what do you have to do?

654
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,760
You have to change false beliefs about yourself.

655
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:15,640
What lies are you allowing to steal away your God given identity?

656
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,520
Because there's all these things that the enemy will try to lie.

657
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,360
He'll try to tell you that you're not lovable.

658
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,800
He'll try to tell you that you're not strong.

659
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:24,800
You're not stable.

660
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,280
That you have to have this guy, this girl in your life.

661
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,480
He tries to say you don't do relationships good.

662
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:33,680
He tries to tell you your only gift is to give literally people what they want whenever

663
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,600
they ask and you have no boundaries.

664
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,640
Let me just stop and tell you, you are valuable.

665
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:42,640
Somebody you're listening right now and I just want you to know Jesus died for you.

666
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:44,800
Your life is valuable to God.

667
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,240
It doesn't matter what has happened.

668
00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:50,040
Doesn't matter what may even be currently transpiring.

669
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:54,640
What happens is a decision you make right now to let God give you a picture of how he

670
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:56,720
sees you and allow him to love you.

671
00:40:56,720 --> 00:40:57,720
Come on.

672
00:40:57,720 --> 00:40:59,120
You know, that is so powerful.

673
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,200
We grab ahold of what Sean just shared.

674
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,080
I mean, we all can agree this has been a really hard year.

675
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:05,080
It's been a difficult year.

676
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,600
Sometimes we can lose sight of who we are.

677
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:12,400
We can lose sight of God's love for us and his plans and his purpose, but most importantly,

678
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:13,880
that we're a son and daughter of God.

679
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:18,800
Our total identity is rooted and grounded in the love of God for us and as difficult as

680
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:23,120
the times have been and as challenging as the situations have been that many of us have

681
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:24,120
walked through.

682
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:25,360
I just want to encourage you.

683
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:26,560
Keep it 100 tribe.

684
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,920
You are called to be a son and daughter of God.

685
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,520
It is your God given identity to walk in the plans and purposes.

686
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:34,600
You are called to be the head and not the tail.

687
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,760
You're called to walk in victory, not defeat.

688
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,240
You're called to walk in hope and not distress.

689
00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:41,680
You're called to walk in peace and not anxiety.

690
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:46,400
Your identity is one that is rooted in the goodness, the mercy and the faithfulness of

691
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:47,400
God.

692
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:48,400
I just want to speak that over you.

693
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:52,680
I believe there's some people today that are going to hear this that need to be reminded

694
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,040
that depression is not your friend.

695
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:56,720
Loneliness is not your friend.

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Being a victim is not your friend and recognize that God is calling you and pursuing you even

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in this moment just to gently and lovingly remind you of your identity in him.

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Keep it 100 tribe.

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We're always honored that you take time to not only download, but to listen and share

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these episodes.

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We've gotten so much incredible feedback and I want you to know we are so grateful to be

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able to share this time with you week in and week out because we are passionate about

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equipping people for the body of Christ.

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Thanks so much for tuning in and if you haven't already subscribed, will you please do that?

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Rate, review and refer.

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Share this link on your social media platform because we want to continue to get the word

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out there and share this podcast with as many people because we believe it's here to bless,

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equip and encourage people in their walk with God.

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As always, check us out on www.Seanandchristasmith.com, find us on Facebook, Sean and Christa Smith

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Ministries and give us some feedback.

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We'd love to hear how this podcast has impacted you.

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I so agree with that.

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I just want to say to so many of you out there, we've been so encouraged by your feedback

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and it's truly inspired us to really hit the table coming in with our fresh material and

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please help us get the word out because we really want to minister and bless a lot of

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people.

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Hey, give it 100 tribes.

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Stay tuned next week as we launch further into this conversation.

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Yes, that's right.

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We're going to have a part two.

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We're going to launch further in this conversation and our conclusion to uncontestable identity

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and unlimited impact part two and there will be some surprises.

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So hey, remember, relief may change your circumstance, but a revelation will change you.