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IDENTITY CRISIS

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The Bible teaches that we have new life when we come into relationship with God through faith in Jesus. However, all of us have an "old life" filled with the things we have done wrong. The new life that God promises is a new identity. (ex. 2 Corinthians 5:17 = we are a "new creation", Romans 8:15 = we are now adopted into God's family, John 1:12 = we are now the "children of God".) This new identity is much different than our old identity when we lived to please ourselves and did not care about God.

The struggle we so often read about in the Bible, is that people who are in a relationship with God have an IDENTITY CRISIS. An IDENTITY CRISIS happens when you are living as though you are someone else.

If you are familiar with the story of Moses and the Israelites wondering in the wilderness for 40 years. I heard one person say the reason they could never enter the promised land and got stuck in the wilderness is because God got them out of Egypt, but he couldn't get Egypt out of them. This means, that although they were free, they were living like slaves.

We have this struggle in life. God created us to be something greater than many of us are living for right now.

This series of messages is geared towards helping people understand this identity crisis and how to live in their true IDENTITY.

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