Peter Roselle: Finding Our Identity in Christ (Romans 8:15)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 2022-02-25

Peter Roselle: Finding Our Identity in Christ (Romans 8:15)
Peter spoke at King of Kings on 2/20/2022. Romans 8:15-16 says, “You did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” Through that prayer, God’s Spirit confirms in our spirits that we are His children.”
As Christians, our primary identity is “child of God.” 

You’ve been “blessed to be a blessing.” (Genesis 12:2)
Pay it forward!

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Romans 8
17-18 If we are God’s children, that means we are His heirs along with the Anointed, set to inherit everything that is His. If we share His sufferings, we know that we will ultimately share in His glory.
I’m sure of this: the sufferings we endure now… are not even worth comparing to the glory that is coming and will be revealed in us.

Galatians 3
26 It is your faith in the Anointed Jesus that makes all of you children of God.
28 It makes no difference whether you are a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a freeman, a man or a woman, 
because in Jesus the Anointed, the Liberating King, you are all one. 
29 Since you belong to Him and are now subject to His power, you are the descendant of Abraham and the heir of God’s glory according to the promise.

John 17
9 [Jesus praying to His Father]: “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. 
10 All Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. 
11 Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as we are.

Ephesians 2
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
11-13 Remember… you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
19 You are no longer called outcasts and wanderers but citizens with God’s people, members of God’s holy family, and residents of His household. 
20 You are being built on a solid foundation: the message of the prophets and the voices of God’s chosen emissaries - with Jesus, the Anointed Himself, the precious cornerstone.

2 Samuel 8:15 So David was king over a united Israel, ruling justly and fairly.
2 Samuel 9
3 David: Is anyone from Saul’s family still alive to whom I could show the kindness of God?
Ziba: Jonathan has a son who is still alive; he is crippled, unable to use his feet.
4 David: Where is he?
Ziba: He lives with Machir, son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar.

Commentary
David promised his friend Jonathan that if he ever became king, he would treat Jonathan and his descendants with kindness. Their friendship was important to David; and although he thinks all of Saul’s family has been destroyed, he wants to find out if somewhere there might be a relative of Jonathan whom he may honor in gratitude for all Jonathan did for him.

2 Samuel 9
5-7 David sent for Jonathan’s son Mephibosheth and had him brought to Jerusalem from the house of Machir, son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar. When he arrived, Mephibosheth, son of Jonathan, grandson of Saul, laid facedown on the floor and honored the king. There’s no need to be frightened. I intend to treat you kindly for the sake of your father, Jonathan, who was my loyal friend. I will return to you all the territory that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always be welcome at my table.
8 Mephibosheth again prostrated himself before the king. 
Mephibosheth: What am I to you that the king should look with favor on a dead dog like me? I am as one of your servants.
11 From then on, Mephibosheth ate at the king’s table as though he were one of David’s own sons.

1 Kings 13 - Finding Our Identity in Christ
1 A man of God from Judah arrived in Bethel because the Eternal One had told him to go there for a divine purpose. He arrived in the city while Jeroboam was burning incense at the altar. 
2 The prophet proclaimed the message of the Eternal against the altar.
Man of God: Altar, altar, listen closely! This is the message of the Eternal: “A boy named Josiah will be born of David’s royal bloodline, and he will sacrifice the priests of the high places upon your back. 
O what irony: the bones of the priests will burn at the very spot where, just the day before, the priests burned incense.”

2 Kings 22 
1 Josiah was 8 years old when he inherited the throne.
11 While the king listened to the words of the book of law, he was filled …