Your Identity is Defined & Your Value is Affirmed | Pastor Lee Cummings
Channel: Radiant Church
Date: 14/04/2024

One of the greatest longings of the human heart and most critical issue in our day is for someone to tell us who we are and that we have worth. One of the central aspects of becoming a Christian – is that God not only “defines” for us “who we are – in Christ” but also “affirms” our value – not based upon our merit, but upon His mercy. Don’t miss this sermon from Pastor Lee Cummings in our When God is Your Father series!

One of the greatest longings of the human heart is to know who we are and what our value is, and the good news is that God has the ability to define our identity and affirm our value.

Sin messed up our connection to the heart of God, but when God is our father, he defines our identity in Christ Jesus.

Believing in God's way unto salvation, through his son Jesus, is the key to being born again and becoming a child of God.

God puts his Spirit, life, and identity in us, exposing the weakness and insufficiency of our old identities.

When we believe in Jesus, we enter into a relationship with the father and he defines for us who we really are.

When you receive Christ, God becomes your father and issues you a brand new passport with all the rights and privileges of eternal life, forgiveness, adoption, salvation, healing, provision, and blessing.

The father speaks over us, affirming our new identity as beloved sons and daughters in whom he is well pleased.

God speaks blessings over your life as a spotless and blameless son or daughter of the Living God.

The transaction of redemption in Christ means that we are not our own, but set free from the chains of sin.

In Christ, you are a new creation with a brand new identity and future.

The act of publicly getting in the water and declaring new life symbolizes a transformation of identity and citizenship in the kingdom of heaven.