Are you trying to bear up the burden of proof? This weekend Pastor Steve Andres continued our MOSES series with a message about identity.
Exodus 3:14
God replied to Moses, “I AM who I AM. Say this to the people of Israel: I AM has sent me to you.”
Moses has a confusing upbringing, born from an oppressed people, but raised in privilege. In a moment of recklessness, he kills a man who is mistreating his fellow Hebrews, and he is forced to flee Egypt.
1) Your behavior follows your sense of identity.
Our actions can be traced back to our sense of who we are, for better and for worse. Our lives are an outworking of our beliefs about ourselves.
2) What makes you awkward in one season might make you relevant in the next.
Moses was not like any other Hebrew, which was isolating. He was trained in the most advanced society of the day, and he was uniquely prepared to lead a nation.
From the place of your deepest wound will come your most significant gift to others.
Moses spent forty years learning from the best of Egypt, then he spent the next forty years learning humility and faithfulness in the desert.
3) An encounter with God raises questions before it offers answers.
When God appeared to Moses, it was unsettling, and it provoked even more questions about his identity and adequacy.
Finding WHO GOD IS is the surest way to understand WHO YOU ARE.
Moses asks God, “Who am I?” The answer Moses gets is about who God is.
4) You are the person that God says you are.
God tells us who we are, but the miracle is that he commits to prove it for us. Our identity in Christ is a work of God’s grace from start to finish!
2 Corinthians 5:17
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
