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Gregory Dickow: Power to Change Today

Gregory Dickow - Know Who You Are

January 18, 2025 | S

Gregory Dickow - Know Who You Are
Gregory Dickow - Know Who You Are
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Gregory Dickow: Power to Change Today | Gregory Dickow - Know Who You Are | January 18, 2025
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  • Gregory dickow: welcome, global family around the world,
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  • Welcome to the "power to change today."
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  • And did you know that god is really pleased with you?
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  • I'm not saying that everything you or i do is right, but you
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  • And i have god's seal of approval already.
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  • "how is that?" you ask.
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  • Well, today, i'm gonna teach you about your identity
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  • And your approval with god.
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  • I'm also gonna show you five things the devil does when we
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  • Don't know who we are, and how to turn it all around for your
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  • Victory and for your good.
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  • I'm also gonna prophesy over you, so stay tuned
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  • The whole time.
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  • Let's buckle up and check this out.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Gregory: you know, in the world that we live in today, we need
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  • To know who we are, this world is very confused about
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  • Who they are.
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  • Identity is everything to me, and i believe it's everything
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  • To god.
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  • When we understand our identity, that's when we can walk
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  • In our destiny.
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  • And as sons and daughters of god, we need to know who we are,
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  • We need to know what we have so that we can exercise
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  • Our authority in this life to fulfill our god-given destiny.
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  • It's our god-given identity that gives us god-given security,
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  • Delivering us from insecurity, which leads us into our
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  • God-given destiny through the authority that we have.
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  • And i want you to know you're a son or daughter of god, you're
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  • Not on the outside looking in, you are not a second-class
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  • Citizen in the kingdom of heaven, you are a joint heir
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  • With jesus christ.
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  • He is the first born of many brethren, many brothers
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  • And sisters, and we are his brothers and sisters.
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  • In john chapter 1, verse 12, it says, "and as many as received
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  • Him," you and me, "as many as received him, to them he gives
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  • Them the right to become sons and daughters of god."
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  • If you've received jesus, you are a son or daughter of god;
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  • And as a son or daughter of god, we need to know who we are
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  • And what we're living for.
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  • In luke chapter 17, i want to jump right into this passage,
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  • So that you can know who you are, truly, and that you can
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  • Walk in your god-given destiny.
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  • It says that, "jesus took with him peter, and james, and john,
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  • And led them to a high mountain," in verse 1,
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  • "by themselves.
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  • And he was transfigured before them."
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  • And it says, "his face shone like the sun, and his garments
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  • Became as white as light.
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  • And behold, moses and elijah appeared to them, talking
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  • With," jesus.
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  • And peter responded, i think he responded out of shock, he said,
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  • "lord, it is good that we are here; if you want, i will make
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  • Three tabernacles here--one for you, one for moses
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  • And one for elijah."
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  • Jesus didn't say anything at that moment, but the heavenly
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  • Father did.
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  • "and while he was still speaking," it says in verse 5,
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  • "a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice from
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  • The cloud said, 'this is my beloved son, with him i am well
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  • Pleased, listen to him.'"
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  • Now, i want you to see that this sounds similar to when god spoke
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  • Over jesus in mark 1:11, "you are my dearly loved son, and you
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  • Bring me great joy," or, "you are my dearly loved son,
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  • And in you i am well pleased."
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  • But but god adds something here, and he's talking to the
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  • Disciples about jesus.
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  • Because they were trying to categorize jesus with moses and
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  • Elijah because peter saw the three of them together, but god
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  • Wanted to make it very clear that moses and elijah are not at
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  • The level that jesus is at.
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  • But you wanna know something?
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  • You want to know?
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  • You want to be let in on the secret?
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  • You are right there with jesus.
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  • The bible says, in 1 john chapter 4, verse 17, "as he is,
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  • So are we in this world."
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  • "as he is, so are we in this world."
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  • Wow, we're joint heirs with jesus christ.
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  • Now, i want you to see this, in verse 5, of luke chapter 17,
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  • I want you to see three things, really four in a sense,
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  • But there's three primary things in this passage.
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  • When the father speaks over jesus, he's telling the
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  • Disciples, he said, "this is my beloved son," that is identity,
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  • We are sons and daughters of god, identity,
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  • "this is my beloved son."
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  • You are his son or daughter, that's your identity.
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  • We really need to get this, we're not his nephews, we're not
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  • His nieces, we're not his cousins, we're not some distant
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  • Relatives, we're not strangers to god, we're his
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  • Sons and his daughters.
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  • When you understand your identity, it is the first step,
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  • It is the great foundation to walking in your authority and
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  • In your destiny, but you gotta understand your identity.
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  • Who are you?
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  • You are a son or daughter of god.
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  • You know, we get our confidence from our father, we get
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  • Our confidence from god, because we're made in his image
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  • And we're his sons and daughters.
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  • God sure knew who he was.
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  • I want to go through a few verses and show you some people
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  • Who knew who they were, and what they had in common.
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  • Notice how god introduces himself in exodus chapter 3,
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  • Verse 14, when moses's like, "who should i tell them
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  • Sent me?"
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  • And god said, in the burning bush, "i am that i am."
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  • Well, there's some confidence there, he says,
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  • "i am that i am."
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  • Like, when you say, "i am that i am," he didn't even say,
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  • "i am the healer, i am the deliverer," he just said, "i am
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  • That i am," like that has authority over everything else.
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  • "i am that i am," that's pretty powerful confidence,
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  • That's someone who knows who they are.
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  • "i am that i am."
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  • And there's something very powerful about that
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  • Level of confidence.
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  • Notice that the father passes that on to jesus, and jesus gets
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  • That from the father.
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  • When he introduces himself, in john chapter 8, verse 58,
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  • He says something very similar.
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  • He says, "before abraham was born, i am."
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  • "before abraham was born, i am."
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  • Now, today, we need to be able to say, "i am who god says i am,
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  • I am a son or daughter of god, i am his beloved, i am approved
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  • By him, i am one who he put in authority in this life, i am one
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  • Who is going to fulfill my destiny, i am healed, i am
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  • Delivered, i am the head and not the tail, i am above
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  • And not beneath."
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  • We need to know, "i am," we need to know who we are.
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  • Notice the father says, "i am that i am."
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  • Notice the son says, "before abraham was born, i am."
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  • Notice how paul introduces himself in 1 corinthians 15,
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  • Verse 10, "i am what i am by the grace of god."
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  • So we have the father saying, "i am that i am," he knows who
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  • He is; we have the son of god saying, "before abraham was
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  • Born, i am," he knows who he is; we have paul the apostle saying,
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  • "i am what i am by the grace of god," he knows who he is.
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  • Now contrast that to what happens in life when you don't
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  • Know who you are.
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  • Let's look over to a very familiar passage, maybe,
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  • For you, in acts chapter 19, verse 13.
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  • It says there were some, "itinerant jewish exorcists,"
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  • Who, "took it upon themselves to call the name of the lord jesus
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  • Over those who had evil spirits."
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  • They took it upon themselves and, "they said, 'we exercise
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  • You,'" we cast you out in the name of jesus, "by jesus
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  • Whom paul preaches."
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  • Notice they didn't even say, "we cast you out in the name
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  • Of jesus," they said, "we cast you out by the jesus whom
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  • Paul preaches."
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  • And it says, in verse 14, these, "were seven sons of sceva."
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  • Notice who they're identified as, they are seven sons
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  • Of sceva, a jewish chief priest, they're the sons of sceva.
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  • Notice who you are, you are a son or daughter of god;
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  • These guys were sons of sceva, who was a jewish priest,
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  • So their identity was in their natural descendant or ancestry,
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  • Who they were naturally a descendant of.
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  • And notice how the devil responds, or how the evil spirit
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  • Answers these guys who didn't know who they were.
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  • And the evil spirit answers, in verse 14, "jesus i know,
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  • And paul i know."
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  • It's not gonna end well here, gang.
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  • "jesus i know," the demon says, "'jesus i know, and paul i know;
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  • But who are you?'
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  • Then," it says, in verse 16, "the man in whom the evil spirit
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  • Was," in, it says, "leaped on them, overpowered them,
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  • Prevailed against them," and, "they fled out of that house
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  • Naked and wounded."
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  • What a description of the butt kicking that these guys took
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  • Because they identified themselves as sons of sceva,
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  • Because they didn't know who they were in christ, because
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  • They were preaching about jesus that somebody else preached
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  • About rather than somebody who they actually knew, rather than
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  • Somebody who they were actually connected to.
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  • We're connected to jesus; if we belong to christ, we're
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  • Abraham's seed; and if we've received him, we're sons and
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  • Daughters of god.
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  • Notice, when we don't know who we are, what the devil
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  • Is able to do.
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  • In verse 16, it says the devil overcame them, so they were
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  • Defeated; the devil prevailed against them, so they were
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  • Defeated even worse; they ran in fear, so they lived in fear, the
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  • Devil had them on the run.
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  • And then, four, it says that they were naked, so the devil
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  • Stripped them of everything they had, and they were wounded.
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  • In other words, the devil leaves us in worse condition than
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  • He finds us when we don't know who we are.
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  • These guys did not know god, they didn't know jesus; they
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  • Heard about him through paul, and we heard about him through
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  • Paul, we heard about him through peter, but we've been introduced
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  • To him, and we know that in christ we're born again
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  • And we're the joint heirs with jesus.
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  • But these guys didn't have that understanding, they had not
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  • Received jesus christ in that way, and they certainly didn't
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  • See themselves as sons and daughters of god, they still
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  • Identified with their natural heritage, sons of sceva.
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  • We have to shift right now.
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  • I want to ask you to shift right now, from finding your identity
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  • In the family, the upbringing that you grew up in.
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  • I'm not criticizing that, it's not about whether that was
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  • A good upbringing or a bad upbringing, it's just not your
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  • Complete upbringing, it wasn't good or bad.
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  • It's not whether it was good or bad, it's that it's incomplete,
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  • And only when we are in christ are we completed in who we are,
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  • As our identity as sons and daughters of god.
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  • And we don't have to do anything to become sons and daughters
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  • Of god, simply, "to as many as received him, to them he gave
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  • The right to become sons and daughters of god."
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  • Do you realize that if you would just shift your thinking from,
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  • "well," you know, "my last name is johnson," or, "my last name
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  • Is smith," or my last name is this or that, "i'm from this
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  • City, i'm from these parents, i'm from this upbringing, i had
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  • This childhood, i was molested, i was abused, i actually grew up
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  • In a rich home," or, "i grew up in a poor home."
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  • We have to realize that our bloodline has been changed,
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  • From our natural heritage to our kingdom heritage as sons
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  • And daughters of god, as sons and daughters of freedom.
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  • Boy, when you know who you are, you can reverse
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  • These five things.
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  • Now notice, back in acts 19, verse 16, these five conditions
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  • That the enemy can do in their lives because they didn't know
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  • Who they were.
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  • The devil overcame them, so you'll be overwhelmed by
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  • The enemy; the devil prevailed against them, you'll constantly
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  • Lose in life to the enemy; the devil made them run away
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  • In fear, you'll constantly live in fear when you don't know
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  • Who you are.
  • 00:13:07.776 --> 00:13:09.278
  • The devil stripped them, they were naked, they ran
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  • Out of the house naked, he took their clothes.
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  • On their way out, as they're running in fear, he said,
  • 00:13:14.283 --> 00:13:17.386
  • "hey, leave those, i want those gucci shoes," or, "i want those
  • 00:13:17.386 --> 00:13:21.690
  • Pants you're wearing," or, "i want those, i want your
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  • Clothes too."
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  • Oh, they just stripped all their clothes or the devil just ripped
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  • It off of them, or that man that was demon-possessed,
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  • He ripped it all off of them.
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  • They went out naked; i'm sure they didn't start that way, they
  • 00:13:32.301 --> 00:13:34.703
  • Weren't casting that devil out naked, they must have had
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  • Clothes on, but by the time they're running for their life
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  • They don't have any clothes on.
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  • Why?
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  • Because the devil robs, he comes to steal, kill, and destroy.
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  • And when you don't know who you are, you're gonna be in lack,
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  • You're gonna be in deficiency, you're gonna be robbed from
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  • And stolen from continually.
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  • And it says here, they were wounded too, he gave them
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  • A good beating on their way out the door.
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  • My god, we've been letting the devil push us around, we've been
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  • Letting the devil push our churches around, we've been
  • 00:14:02.631 --> 00:14:04.934
  • Letting the devil rule this world, and we've been letting
  • 00:14:04.934 --> 00:14:08.337
  • The devil tell us when to fear and when not to fear.
  • 00:14:08.337 --> 00:14:12.341
  • And we've got to realize that we are the head and not the tail,
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  • You have been given authority, jesus paid for you not only
  • 00:14:15.344 --> 00:14:19.548
  • To be forgiven but to have authority in this life.
  • 00:14:19.548 --> 00:14:23.519
  • Through the, "abundance of grace," romans 5:17 says,
  • 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:27.056
  • "and through the gift of righteousness,"
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  • We reign as kings in this life.
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  • We are waiting for somebody to approve of us, we've got
  • 00:14:31.226 --> 00:14:34.630
  • To stop it, we gotta get our approval from god.
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  • We've been waiting for somebody to tell us who we are, and god
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  • Already told us who we are.
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  • We're waiting for the world to give us something and we're
  • 00:14:40.970 --> 00:14:44.106
  • Waiting for the universe to give us something, rather than we
  • 00:14:44.106 --> 00:14:47.743
  • Gotta go and take dominion, and exercise our authority over our
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  • Thought life, our authority over our bodies, our authority over
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  • Our children, our authority over our finances, our authority
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  • Over our lives and our emotions and our relationships
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  • And our futures.
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  • Yes, we have that kind of authority.
  • 00:15:03.993 --> 00:15:07.196
  • And when you know who you are, look at how you can reverse
  • 00:15:07.196 --> 00:15:11.033
  • All these five things where the enemy defeats us.
  • 00:15:11.033 --> 00:15:15.004
  • When you know who you are you can be healed, so where
  • 00:15:15.004 --> 00:15:19.775
  • The devil wounded you, you can be healed.
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  • Mark 7:27, says, "he was saying to her, 'let the children be
  • 00:15:21.543 --> 00:15:25.247
  • Satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children's
  • 00:15:25.247 --> 00:15:28.717
  • Bread and throw it to the dog.'"
  • 00:15:28.717 --> 00:15:30.085
  • So healing is the children's bread, it's your portion, it's
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  • What god has given to you.
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  • If you are a christian, if you are a child of god, if you've
  • 00:15:36.325 --> 00:15:39.895
  • Been born again, healing belongs to you.
  • 00:15:39.895 --> 00:15:44.166
  • I'm going backwards, i'm going in the reverse order, so the
  • 00:15:44.166 --> 00:15:47.903
  • Fifth thing that the devil does when you don't know
  • 00:15:47.903 --> 00:15:50.406
  • Who you are is he wounds you.
  • 00:15:50.406 --> 00:15:51.774
  • So the first thing we can take back, now, is take back our
  • 00:15:51.774 --> 00:15:54.743
  • Healing, because healing is the children's bread,
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  • It's our portion.
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  • Amen?
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  • The second thing we can do is, the devil strips us, he steals
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  • What we have, so the second thing is we can get back
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  • What was stolen from us.
  • 00:16:07.456 --> 00:16:08.824
  • Proverbs 6:31, says the thief, "when he is caught,
  • 00:16:08.824 --> 00:16:12.861
  • He must repay sevenfold."
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  • I just declare over your life, i prophesy over you right now
  • 00:16:14.863 --> 00:16:19.501
  • That what's been stolen from you by the devil, by you lacking
  • 00:16:19.501 --> 00:16:23.705
  • Your sense of identity and your sense of security and your sense
  • 00:16:23.705 --> 00:16:27.209
  • Of authority; whatever the devil has stolen from you, the time
  • 00:16:27.209 --> 00:16:31.380
  • That has been stolen, he's gotta pay back seven-fold.
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  • We call back seven-fold return on the time that you've had
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  • Robbed from you, the money that has been stolen from you,
  • 00:16:36.985 --> 00:16:39.888
  • The opportunities that have been stolen from you, the joy that
  • 00:16:39.888 --> 00:16:42.624
  • Has been stolen from you, the peace that has been stolen from
  • 00:16:42.624 --> 00:16:45.294
  • You, the breakthroughs that have been stolen from you away,
  • 00:16:45.294 --> 00:16:48.730
  • A sense of confidence that has been stolen from you.
  • 00:16:48.730 --> 00:16:51.100
  • You've been stripped of your confidence, stripped of your
  • 00:16:51.100 --> 00:16:53.569
  • Authority, stripped of your knowledge of your authority,
  • 00:16:53.569 --> 00:16:55.938
  • That is, and i declare it's coming back seven-fold to you,
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  • In jesus name.
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  • I prophesy restoration, i prophesy repayment of all
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  • That's been lost, all that's been stolen, all that
  • 00:17:03.946 --> 00:17:06.181
  • You've been cheated out of, in jesus name.
  • 00:17:06.181 --> 00:17:10.052
  • You start talking like that over yourself and you're gonna see
  • 00:17:10.052 --> 00:17:13.622
  • Things change, and at the very least it's gonna change your
  • 00:17:13.622 --> 00:17:17.226
  • Attitude, it's going to put a smile on your face and you're
  • 00:17:17.226 --> 00:17:18.927
  • Gonna walk into your next day with confidence, and good things
  • 00:17:18.927 --> 00:17:21.997
  • Are gonna happen for you because doors are gonna open that
  • 00:17:21.997 --> 00:17:25.634
  • No man can close.
  • 00:17:25.634 --> 00:17:27.469
  • We're reversing these things that the enemy has taken from us
  • 00:17:27.469 --> 00:17:31.406
  • Because we didn't know who we were, but we do know who we are,
  • 00:17:31.406 --> 00:17:34.877
  • And therefore the third thing is we can put the devil on the run.
  • 00:17:34.877 --> 00:17:38.080
  • Where he had these seven sons of sceva running for their lives,
  • 00:17:38.080 --> 00:17:41.350
  • We can make the devil run for his life.
  • 00:17:41.350 --> 00:17:43.685
  • In matthew chapter 4, verse 10 and 11, jesus said,
  • 00:17:43.685 --> 00:17:46.288
  • "begone, satan!
  • 00:17:46.288 --> 00:17:48.323
  • For it is written...
  • 00:17:48.323 --> 00:17:49.658
  • 'worship the lord your god, and serve him only.'"
  • 00:17:49.658 --> 00:17:51.793
  • The bible says, in verse 11, of matthew chapter 4, that,
  • 00:17:51.793 --> 00:17:56.565
  • "the devil left him," and, "angels came and
  • 00:17:56.565 --> 00:17:59.268
  • Ministered to him."
  • 00:17:59.268 --> 00:18:00.602
  • I want you to see, the devil left him.
  • 00:18:00.602 --> 00:18:02.604
  • You say, "well that was jesus," but the bible says that,
  • 00:18:02.604 --> 00:18:05.541
  • "as he is, so are we."
  • 00:18:05.541 --> 00:18:07.142
  • It also says that we submit to god, in 1 peter chapter 4,
  • 00:18:07.142 --> 00:18:13.315
  • We can, "submit to god.
  • 00:18:13.315 --> 00:18:14.683
  • Resist the devil and he will flee," "he will flee."
  • 00:18:14.683 --> 00:18:20.656
  • Number four, where the devil has prevailed against us we can
  • 00:18:20.656 --> 00:18:26.228
  • Prevail against him.
  • 00:18:26.228 --> 00:18:28.130
  • James chapter 5, verse 16, says, "the prayers of the righteous
  • 00:18:28.130 --> 00:18:31.500
  • Avail much."
  • 00:18:31.500 --> 00:18:33.068
  • Isaiah chapter 54, verse 17, says, "no weapon formed against
  • 00:18:33.068 --> 00:18:37.272
  • You shall prosper," but you shall condemn those tongues
  • 00:18:37.272 --> 00:18:44.813
  • That are accusing you and those tongues that are prevailing
  • 00:18:44.813 --> 00:18:48.817
  • Against you, and those things that the devil has programmed
  • 00:18:48.817 --> 00:18:52.754
  • Your mind to believe about yourself.
  • 00:18:52.754 --> 00:18:55.023
  • You're prevailing over those things, you're prevailing over
  • 00:18:55.023 --> 00:18:58.227
  • The enemy, you're prevailing in life, you're prevailing because
  • 00:18:58.227 --> 00:19:03.065
  • You are more than a conqueror.
  • 00:19:03.065 --> 00:19:04.666
  • Romans chapter 8, verse 37 through 39, says that you,
  • 00:19:04.666 --> 00:19:09.204
  • "are more than a conqueror through him that loved us."
  • 00:19:09.204 --> 00:19:14.209
  • And you can overcome, instead of the devil overcoming you.
  • 00:19:14.209 --> 00:19:19.081
  • Just like i was saying, you also can overcome him rather than the
  • 00:19:19.081 --> 00:19:23.819
  • Devil overcoming you, the demons overcoming you, you can overcome
  • 00:19:23.819 --> 00:19:27.823
  • Whatever has come against you.
  • 00:19:27.823 --> 00:19:29.524
  • It says, in romans 8:31, "what shall we say to these things?
  • 00:19:29.524 --> 00:19:34.663
  • If god be for us, who can be against us?"
  • 00:19:34.663 --> 00:19:36.865
  • He's asking a question and he's answering it.
  • 00:19:36.865 --> 00:19:39.334
  • "what shall we say to these things?
  • 00:19:39.334 --> 00:19:41.169
  • If god be for us, who can be against us?"
  • 00:19:41.169 --> 00:19:43.805
  • The question is, "what shall we say to these things?"
  • 00:19:43.805 --> 00:19:45.707
  • The answer is, "if god be for us, who can be against us?"
  • 00:19:45.707 --> 00:19:48.677
  • We need to start saying things to these things that are coming
  • 00:19:48.677 --> 00:19:53.815
  • Against us, we have to start talking to these things.
  • 00:19:53.815 --> 00:19:59.655
  • I'm telling you, when you get ahold of this, you're gonna walk
  • 00:19:59.655 --> 00:20:03.892
  • In so much peace.
  • 00:20:03.892 --> 00:20:05.260
  • Christians have been afraid to take their rightful place
  • 00:20:05.260 --> 00:20:10.866
  • As sons of god, thinking that they're somehow arrogant
  • 00:20:10.866 --> 00:20:14.202
  • To think that they're equal with jesus.
  • 00:20:14.202 --> 00:20:16.738
  • And we're not equal in the sense of divinity, we're not divine,
  • 00:20:16.738 --> 00:20:21.310
  • Without human, without sinful nature like jesus was divine
  • 00:20:21.310 --> 00:20:26.114
  • Without sinful nature, he was with human nature and divine
  • 00:20:26.114 --> 00:20:30.218
  • Nature but he wasn't with sinful nature.
  • 00:20:30.218 --> 00:20:32.154
  • So we're not equal in that way, but we are equal in the sense
  • 00:20:32.154 --> 00:20:35.624
  • That he has seated us with him in heavenly places; he has
  • 00:20:35.624 --> 00:20:41.296
  • Seated us with him in heavenly places, we are joint heirs with
  • 00:20:41.296 --> 00:20:45.534
  • Him, according to romans chapter 8.
  • 00:20:45.534 --> 00:20:47.803
  • We can just go on and on
  • 00:20:47.803 --> 00:20:49.137
  • In all the passages that jesus elevates us to a position
  • 00:20:49.137 --> 00:20:54.476
  • Seated with him.
  • 00:20:54.476 --> 00:20:56.178
  • John 1:12 already said that, it says that to, "as many as
  • 00:20:56.178 --> 00:20:59.715
  • Received him, to them he gave the right to become
  • 00:20:59.715 --> 00:21:02.818
  • Sons of god."
  • 00:21:02.818 --> 00:21:04.152
  • Romans 8, verse 19, says all of creation is waiting eagerly
  • 00:21:04.152 --> 00:21:10.025
  • For the children of god to be revealed.
  • 00:21:10.025 --> 00:21:13.095
  • God tells us that, "all of creation," all creatures,
  • 00:21:13.095 --> 00:21:19.368
  • All circumstances, all of life, "is earnestly longing," and
  • 00:21:19.368 --> 00:21:23.905
  • Waiting, "for the revealing of the sons of god."
  • 00:21:23.905 --> 00:21:26.842
  • The mountains in your life are waiting for you to rise up and
  • 00:21:26.842 --> 00:21:30.112
  • Tell them what to do; the problems in this world are
  • 00:21:30.112 --> 00:21:35.317
  • Waiting for you to rise up and tell these problems what to do.
  • 00:21:35.317 --> 00:21:39.388
  • The thing that is in front of you is waiting for you to
  • 00:21:39.388 --> 00:21:42.391
  • Push it, waiting for you to resist it, waiting for you
  • 00:21:42.391 --> 00:21:45.961
  • To tell it what to do.
  • 00:21:45.961 --> 00:21:49.131
  • Father said, "this is my son," identity, "my beloved son,
  • 00:21:49.131 --> 00:21:54.102
  • In him i am well pleased," security.
  • 00:21:54.102 --> 00:21:56.905
  • "listen to him," authority.
  • 00:21:56.905 --> 00:21:58.840
  • And you're in christ, you have the same identity, you have the
  • 00:21:58.840 --> 00:22:03.445
  • Same security, and now you know you have the same authority.
  • 00:22:03.445 --> 00:22:08.283
  • It's time to exercise that authority, we gotta walk out
  • 00:22:08.283 --> 00:22:11.586
  • Of here today and we got to close the service today knowing
  • 00:22:11.586 --> 00:22:14.790
  • Who we are.
  • 00:22:14.790 --> 00:22:16.124
  • If i can tell you a few things about yourself so that you can
  • 00:22:16.124 --> 00:22:20.128
  • Start knowing these things about you, it's time to prevail, it's
  • 00:22:20.128 --> 00:22:24.266
  • Time to invade, it's time to overtake, it's time to take back
  • 00:22:24.266 --> 00:22:28.236
  • What's rightfully ours.
  • 00:22:28.236 --> 00:22:29.604
  • We've got to know who we are.
  • 00:22:29.604 --> 00:22:32.140
  • Who are you?
  • 00:22:32.140 --> 00:22:33.508
  • You're more than a conqueror, romans 8:37 says.
  • 00:22:33.508 --> 00:22:35.944
  • Who are you?
  • 00:22:35.944 --> 00:22:37.312
  • You're a king and a priest before god, revelation 1,
  • 00:22:37.312 --> 00:22:39.981
  • Verse 5 and 6 says.
  • 00:22:39.981 --> 00:22:41.349
  • Who are you?
  • 00:22:41.349 --> 00:22:42.684
  • You are a son of god, john 1:12 says.
  • 00:22:42.684 --> 00:22:44.753
  • Who are you?
  • 00:22:44.753 --> 00:22:46.087
  • You are a joint heir with jesus christ,
  • 00:22:46.087 --> 00:22:48.490
  • Romans 8:16-17 says.
  • 00:22:48.490 --> 00:22:52.627
  • Who are you?
  • 00:22:52.627 --> 00:22:53.962
  • You are the seed of abraham, galatians 3:29 says.
  • 00:22:53.962 --> 00:22:57.265
  • Who are you?
  • 00:22:57.265 --> 00:22:58.633
  • You are the righteousness of god, 2 corinthians 5:21 says.
  • 00:22:58.633 --> 00:23:03.171
  • Who are you?
  • 00:23:03.171 --> 00:23:05.240
  • You are what god says you are, you are the church.
  • 00:23:05.240 --> 00:23:12.881
  • Matthew 16:18, and it says, "the gates of hell will not
  • 00:23:12.881 --> 00:23:17.285
  • Prevail against," you.
  • 00:23:17.285 --> 00:23:18.620
  • Who are you?
  • 00:23:18.620 --> 00:23:19.988
  • You are the church, you and me, we are the church.
  • 00:23:19.988 --> 00:23:22.591
  • We're the church, we are what the gates of hell cannot prevail
  • 00:23:22.591 --> 00:23:26.862
  • Against us, we're the devil's worst nightmare, we're what
  • 00:23:26.862 --> 00:23:33.335
  • He wished would have never happened.
  • 00:23:33.335 --> 00:23:34.836
  • He couldn't stop the resurrection, but he's sure
  • 00:23:34.836 --> 00:23:38.139
  • Trying to stop people from knowing who they are in christ,
  • 00:23:38.139 --> 00:23:42.444
  • And we're his worst nightmare when we know who we are and
  • 00:23:42.444 --> 00:23:47.382
  • When we take our rightful place, when we truly declare
  • 00:23:47.382 --> 00:23:54.022
  • And believe that we are who god says we are.
  • 00:23:54.022 --> 00:23:56.691
  • By the grace of god, that's who you are.
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