Romans | Week 12 | Living the Blessed Life Through Identity In Christ

Romans 4:9-12 | Pastor Keoni Hughes

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1. Religious Activity Is Not Your Identity

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Circumcision Is Seen as a Religious Activity

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Cruise Ship | Entertainment/Enjoyment Focused | Self-Oriented

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Battle Ship | Training-Focused | Mission-Oriented

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“Talk to him about ‘moderation in all things’. If you can once get him to the point of thinking that ‘religion is all very well up to a point’, you can feel quite happy about his soul. A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all-and more amusing.” – Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis

2. Religious Activity Is a Sign of Your Jesus Identity

Sign and Seal

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3. Ethnic Identity Is Not Your Identity

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Work

Social Media

Family

Ethnicity

Orientation

Hobbies/Interests

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Any identification about you that becomes a definition of you, seeks validation for you that only justification in Jesus can give you.

4. Jesus Is Your Identity

“For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” – Galatians 2:19-21

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Application

Reject Your Religious Activity

Reject Every Identity That Attempts to Define You

Receive the Identity You Have in Christ

Rest in His Identity and Gain True Acceptance and Belonging With God

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