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Hey it's Rachel, Today on Crack Your Bible, I wanted to talk to you about identity
issues. Now before we get started, make sure you hit subscribe, with the bell,
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the parentheses, and let's get started. Now last night I was up during the
Twitter purge, and I saw that people were losing tons of followers and I noticed
that I lost a bunch of followers on YouTube last night, just out of the blue.
Really late at night, while the Twitter purge was going on, I was like, "I
bet they're connected!" We're used to censorship and all sorts of weird stuff,
whatever. And yeah, so that was interesting, but anyway that's not what I
wanted to talk to you guys about. I wanted to talk to you guys about
identity issues. And today Billy Graham died. He is a very famous pastor in the
United States, and everybody online and on the radio and everything, "oh he's
going back to Jesus, and oh he did so many great things, and blah blah blah. Oh
he did this and he did that." And it's like like, "hold on real quick!" Because
while it's great to be like, "yes this person did so much stuff" and I think
we're missing a big, big, big thing in the whole scheme of things. Like why he's
going to go to heaven, or why he wouldn't go to heaven - it has nothing to do with
our works. And we see in the Bible - that when people are before God on Judgment
Day, we're gonna have two different judgments here; the judgment of believers,
which we've already talked about, where God gives out rewards for our works, and
that's for the believers only. And that's where you're getting your crowns that
you're going to cast before Jesus's feet. And then you also have the judgment of
non-believers. And then you have this certain group that's there and they're
like, "hold up Jesus, like why am I here? Didn't you know that we did this?
(Matthew 7:21-23) and we did that we cast out demons in your name and we healed the
sick, and we did this, and we did that." And what does God say? He says, "depart from
me, you workers of lawlessness. I never knew you!" Straight into the pit of Hell!
And it's like, you know everybody wants to talk about, "I did this and I did that,
and oh, oh he did so many things, and oh he was so great!" The only reason that
we're righteous is because of what Jesus Christ did on the Cross. So if you get to
heaven, if this were to happen, "why should I let you into heaven?" Only answer is
"Jesus! Because Jesus defeated sin and death on the Cross and He is my God!"
That is the only answer, because there is nothing that we can do that will put us
(Galatians 3:11) into right standing with God there is nothing that we can do where the Father
is going to look at us and be like, "well done my good and faithful servant. You
did this without Jesus!" Never gonna happen, unless we have the blood of Jesus
Christ over us, where death has passed over us, like the Passover lamb. There's
no way that we can have right standing before God the Father at all. So
everything we do is about Jesus, and that brings me back to identity issues.
Because while I was researching Monday's video - if you haven't checked it out,
check it out. It doesn't even have like a hundred views. I'm just like "what?" Anyway
while I was doing research for that video, I talked about the black Hebrew
Israelites, and how you have all these people like, "oh I'm the Israelites" or "oh
I'm the Egyptians!" You have these weird offshoot groups, where they say
they're black Hebrew Israelites, where they're the true Israelites, and
everybody else is an imposter. And then you have their rival group, which is
called Kemet, and they believe all black people are descended from Egyptian
pharaohs - as if nobody else in Egypt was anything other than a pharaoh. Like there
was no regular people just running day-to-day operations in Egypt.
Everybody was a pharaoh! It's just goofiness. And you know, you see people,
they are just they're dying to be somebody. They're dying to be something.
They're... they want to be a part of something bigger than themselves because
they don't feel good about themselves. They feel like they have nothing to show
for their lives. Like maybe they don't have a great job, or maybe they're not
very bright, or they just... you know, they're not very well off. Whatever!
There's something in their life that's lacking, so they're putting all of their
energy into, "well I'm this. I'm this and that's what makes me a good person. This
is what makes me somebody who's worthy of of your attention! I'm a good human
being because of this or that!" And you see the same thing outside of like the
weird offshoot, cult garbage. And you see that with gender identity today. I mean, I
won't tell you their names, but there was this girl that I used to work with. And
she used to bring this guy around and she would say, "oh he's my brother" and we
thought that they were just really strange, like very inappropriate. And
people came up to me and they're like, "is this like... is something weird going on
with these two? Because if that's her brother, they're acting kind of
like incestuous." This is weird because they were very touchy-feely with each other.
And because it was work ,and because it was my job, I had to confront her about
it with other people, (kind of like an HR type meeting about her behavior.) And
come to find out, this guy wasn't her brother - it was just somebody she was
very close to, so close that she "considered him a brother." And later on,
later on the same year, he decided that he was going to come out as trans. Now he
had... this had never come up before, and it's just like, "okay?" So now it went from,
"this guy's my brother," to now "this guy is my girlfriend." And it's just like
you see people - they are so confused. You see all
these people, they're just dying to relate to anything, just something where
it's like, "I have meaning. I have worth!" And they just get into the most crazy
insane Tumblr-isms, where all the sudden you have eight thousand billion genders,
based on animals, and inanimate objects, and all sorts of stuff, and it's just
like, "how did how did it get so crazy?" And it's because people are searching for an
identity outside of Jesus Christ. They're trying to make their own path, just like
the people at the Tower of Babel - where they don't want God's name, and they want
nothing to do with that, because they they love their sin nature. They don't
want to get rid of it. They love sin, yet they feel empty inside. So instead of
running to Jesus, they're gonna make a name for themselves. And that's how you
get people who are otherkin and Cael gender, and all sorts of just absolutely
insane tumblrisms. Just... it's just madness today! And it stems from the
fact that people are trying to make their identity something apart from God.
And whenever you do that, you're going to run into problems. You have people where
it's, "well I'm from this" or "I'm from that." And you see it, especially today in the
church, where pastors forget - this is not a good thing - where they're like, "oh . it's so amazing that we have
the Jewish people here today" And it's like, "these people need Jesus!" God's not
impressed by the fact that they're Jews. Remember God can raise up children
for Abraham from stones! God is not impressed by who your ancestors are.
That's not what makes you special. What makes you special is that you belong to
Jesus, that you are God's child. That's what makes you special! It's not your
genealogy. It's not about your sexuality. It's not about your race. It's all about
Jesus. And until we get this through our heads, we're going to just keep falling
into the lies of the devil that he tells us. He says this about us,
and then you don't know who you are in Christ
Jesus. You'll start to believe the lies. You'll start to believe the things that
other people say about you because you're not grounded in the Word of God.
You're not grounded in a firm foundation of Jesus Christ - He is the one who my
identity is based off of. The Holy Spirit lives inside of me and I know the things
that God has said about me. And those are the things that I buried down deep into
my heart. These are the things that I know about myself, because this is what
God tells me. No instead, people believe all the whispers, and everything around
them. And that's how you get all of these issues with people where they're just
they're depressed, and they're angry, and they're anxious, and they're... they're just
like chasing after the wind. And it's just like, "how did it get so bad" And it's
because if you don't put your identity in Jesus Christ, if you don't say, "Jesus
you are my God, but then recognize that you are now a new creation in Christ
Jesus," and you embrace that, you're going to be lost. You're going to
be wishy-washy. You're going to be the one whose foundation is not on the rock.
We reflect God's nature. We're not gods - don't get it twisted, but we become more
(Galatians 2:20) like God, because the Holy Spirit lives inside of us. We don't reflect our old
nature anymore where we're a part of the world. No, we're part of God's family!
And I want people to understand who they are in Christ Jesus, because it's so
powerful. I mean when I drive around and I see the mountains in Las Vegas, or I
see the palm trees, what I see is like... my God created these things! My Father
created these things! Because He's the Creator of the universe! And if He can
create the mountain range that I see; if He creates the Sun in the sky, the
clouds, the stars, and everything, there's nothing in this world that He cannot do
for me. And we know that Jesus said that we would do greater (John 14:12)
then He even did, here on earth. So if that's my Father, and these are the
things that He's allowed me to do, He's granted me these capabilities as His
child - Wow! I have so much responsibility. There's nothing that can hold me back,
because not only do I have responsibility, I have power! And not only
do I have power, but I have the God of the universe on my side as my Father!
That's what my identity is wrapped up in. It's not about skin color, nationality, or
race, or any of this other stuff - it's all about Jesus, because the Holy Spirit
lives inside of us. The Holy Spirit points us to Jesus, and Jesus points us
to the Father. And we need to remember that it's not about what we feel about
ourselves, or you know, "oh I just can't forgive myself for certain things." No
(Romans 5:1-9) it's all about, "what does Jesus say about us what does God say about us?" And He
says we're righteous, we're holy, that were more than conquerors. He says that we're
victorious, that we're going to be kings and priests who reign and rule with Him.
(Romans 8:31-37) He says that he didn't give us a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound
mind. I don't have to listen to the world because I know who I am in Christ Jesus.
And if I know who I am, I know what my mission is, and I have a direction in
life. But if you don't know who you are, you are just going to be blown about on
the winds of false doctrine. You're gonna be swept up in all this stupid stuff
that's not profitable. You're going to be scattered like the people in the Tower
of Babel. They didn't want God's name. They didn't want God Shem. They wanted to
make a name for themselves. And if your name, if your identity, isn't rooted in
Christ, everything that you do is futile. You will never be satisfied. You will
never be happy. If your whole identity is about your works, the things that
you've done, and the things that human beings have done, and the things that
human beings say about you, you will never be able to accomplish the things
that God has in store for you. And that is not what I want for you. I
want you to recognize who you are in Christ Jesus. I want you to understand
the power, and the responsibility, and the absolute love that God has for you as
His child. And if you don't know that, you you're not going to be an effective
member of the Body of Christ. You're not going to be able to live out the plans
that He has for you, and then if you don't do that, once you get to that
judgment of believers, what crowns are you going to have, if you
didn't live out the goals that He had for you? If you didn't live out your
mission? What are you going to have to show for this life? So it's so important
that you recognize who you are in Christ Jesus so that you can go out and
complete the mission that He has for you, because you're His child. But just
because you're His child doesn't mean that, "okay now you're my child, and now
that's it!" No! You have things that He wants you to do. And you're here for a
reason. You have a purpose. But until you recognize that, you are going to be
caught up in all this other gobbly gook and I don't want that for you. So that's
all that I wanted to share with you. I hope you will like, subscribe, and share.
And do check out a playlist, because we can't fight the schemes of the devil
unless we know the Word of God, so that's all that I wanted to share, and I will
talk to you later. Bye!
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