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He 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.600 made a way, so we have to follow his lead. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.840 He knows who he is, and he became everything he 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.359 was created to be. He now sits at the right 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.360 hand of the Father. See there is something that we 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.839 can identify with. There's so many things in this world 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.800 that are trying to steal our identity, or we're trying 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:41.000 to put our identity in other things. Maybe you know 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.280 a celebrity that you want do you want to be 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.880 like them, or you want to see what they're doing, 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.639 you want to do what they're doing. But I'll tell 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:56.880 you the greatest celebrity there is is Jesus Christ. And 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.799 the enemy knows that we have value in Jesus Christ. 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.239 He knows what he's up against. He knows that he 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:08.200 has temporary solutions on this earth. He is not eternal. 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.399 His days are coming to an end. He only has 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.799 a limited amount of time, and he's on that time limit, 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.480 working over time to try to get us off course. 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:21.720 But see, he has no place in our life. He'll 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.200 never stop us. He may slow us down, but he's 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.880 never going to stop us. Because we are marked with 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.240 the purpose and a destiny in Jesus Christ. That's the 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:36.240 good news today. That is the good news today. But 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.760 he does know this, and so he's always trying to 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.440 get us off course. And I think one of the 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:46.400 greatest temptations that he uses is to place a counterfeit 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:51.040 on our value. He tries to decrease our value and 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.680 our worth because see he knows if he can tear 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:59.160 down our value and our worth, that it will deteriorate 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.840 our purpose. See think about this just a minute. If 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.360 you have something and you tear it down and it 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.440 has no value, you really have no purpose for it. 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.200 Think about when you clean out your closet. Well, I 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.960 don't like this anymore. I guess I can just give 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.680 it away. It has no purpose. You begin to lose 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.880 your purpose. And see, if you can lose your purpose, 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:24.479 you won't shine brightly on this earth. So I just 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.320 want to encourage every one of us. We don't have 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.120 to look for our identity. We can find it in 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:34.240 Jesus Christ. We can find our worth in him. It's 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.880 an easy answer, but we have to take time to 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.760 feed on the word of God. We have to take 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.880 time to feed on the Creator, and let him build 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.799 up our spirit. You see, we can't find our strength 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.159 in our possessions in this outer world. We have to 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:55.640 find our strength in our eternal world, in our inner world. 0:04:56.520 --> 0:05:00.839 See Jesus. In Matthew fourth tells us that when he 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:05.080 was just baptized, he came up from the Jordan River. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:09.280 A loud voice from God boomed from heaven. A dove 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.279 landed on him to represent the power of the Holy Spirit, 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.520 and God said, this is my son in whom I 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:21.279 am well pleased. He was anointed that day with power 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.400 and might. He was the son of God, and the 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:29.880 whole earth knew it. He went into a fast a 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.640 deeper relationship with his father. The Bible says he fasted 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.559 for forty days and forty nights. He sought the father's will. 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.799 He got to know the Father. Now, I've never fasted 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.359 for forty days and forty knights, have you? I have 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:47.400 fasted between meals, but never for forty days or forty nights. 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:55.080 So you know, he was hungry. He had a physical need. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.520 He was very, very hungry, and the Bible says that 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:02.479 the spirit of God led him into the wilderness to 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:08.080 be tempted by the enemy. He had a physical need, 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.520 and guess what, the enemy tried to move in on 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:18.719 that knee. So he offered him a temporary solution. He 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:23.679 said this, if you are the son of God, if 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:28.720 you are right there, right there, he's questioning who he is. 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:33.560 He's also trying to find out who he is. And 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:37.440 he's also trying to bring confusion into the situation, just 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:41.120 like he did Eve. You remember he brought confusion into Eve. 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.000 He said, now, Eve, if God loves you so much, 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:47.600 why can't you eat of this? This is a beautiful fruit. 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:50.800 If you can eat from any fruit in the garden, 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:56.080 why can't you eat from this? Does God not love you? 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.160 See how the enemy comes and he tries to work 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:03.200 on our instaut curities. He tries to steal who we 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.920 are and our identity. If God loved you so much, 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.360 why did you lose that position? Why did your husband 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:16.720 walk out on you? See? He wants to devalue you. 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:21.520 He wants you to not have the worth that Jesus 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.880 Christ came to make you worthy. He's trying to take 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.080 your worth, and you know what, He's not going to 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.320 do it. We might take the bait every once in 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.000 a while, but listen. He may try to slow his bound, 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.920 but he'll never have our life. He'll never have our life. 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.240 He said, if you are the son of God, he 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.440 wanted to play off his insecurity. He wanted to see 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.840 if he even knew who he really was. He said, 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:55.360 take these stones and turn them into bread. Aren't you hungry? 0:07:55.640 --> 0:08:00.840 You can eat right now. But Jesus didn't offer out 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:04.320 of a place of insecurity. He didn't try to become 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:09.800 independent from God. He was connected to the Father. You know, 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.840 he could have turned those stones into bread. You know 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.200 he could have, because we see later on that he 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.600 took two lows and he multiplied the bread to feed 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.520 five thousand. See, Jesus can do anything. He can turn 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.160 anything into anything. It wasn't a matter if he could, 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.920 It was a matter if he would. Was he going 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:35.439 to take the temporary bait. No, he wasn't going to 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.200 operate a place of insecurity because he was connected to 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.520 the Father. He says, listen, I do what the Father 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:44.520 tells me to do. Whatever the Father says do, I do. 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:50.040 And the Father didn't tell me to do that. See, 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:55.840 this is a temporary pleasure. But I am rooted and 0:08:56.000 --> 0:09:00.120 established in the Father as he said, inner world that 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:04.439 Jesus had going on, wasn't the temporary pleasures. It wasn't 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.280 the things for the season. It wasn't that just fill 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.000 my belly right now because he knew, you know what, 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:11.559 I could eat that right now. But I'm gonna be 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:16.600 hungry later. Unless God feeds me, I am always going 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.600 to be hungry. And that's what the enemy wants us 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:23.960 to think that these temporary things can give us eternal satisfaction. 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.680 But they cannot. We have to be willing to go 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:32.280 in and find out who we are, remember who we are, 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:38.559 and establish our identity and that and that alone. Jesus' 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:42.360 response to him was, man will not live by bread alone, 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.760 but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:49.120 of God. He was saying, if God tells me to 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.240 do it, I'll do it. But if you tell me 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.320 to do it, I'm not gonna do it because I 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.840 don't respond to you out of insecurity. I know who 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:00.320 I am, I have worth and value. Hey, this is 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:04.800 hard because I'm hungry. The easy thing to do would 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.560 be to turn the stone into bread. That would be easy, 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.040 that would be quick. How many of you know sometimes 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.400 the easy way out is the quickest way out, but 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:18.320 it doesn't always work for us. Sometimes we take that 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.160 easy way out and we realized it was really the 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:25.600 long road hoe. But if we'll just sit back and 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.960 we say, who is questioning me? Who is the one 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.000 that's trying to bring confusion? Who's the one that's making 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:35.400 me feel insecure? Like I have to respond, like I 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.040 have to do this on my own, Like there's a 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.760 temptation and if I'll take the easy way out, I'll 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.640 get out of this situation. But is it God telling 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.600 you to do that? Are you consulting the inner voice, 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:51.040 the inner's world, the inner strength? The Bible says it's 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.640 the spirit of the man that sustains the man. God 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.320 has got you. Listen, you don't have to make any 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.760 quick decision. God has got you, will help you, He 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:07.840 will lead you. See, Jesus was not willing to be 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:12.600 disconnected to the Father because he knew that if he 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:17.520 would answer the wrong way, and he responded the wrong way, 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.439 then Satan could say, see, he's not even worthy to 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:25.200 save the world. And that's what he wants to do 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.920 to us. He wants to make us feel unworthy to 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:34.599 receive the gift of God. The grace of God, our salvation. 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:40.240 Look what you did yesterday. How could God accept you? 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:45.120 How could you take this free gift of grace, this 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:52.000 unprecedented favor. You're unworthy of it. What is your answer? Hey, 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.320 I am not I am not the one who's worthy. 0:11:55.840 --> 0:12:00.000 It's not my identity. It's the identity of Jesus Christ 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.200 and what he did for me. That's almost too simple, 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:08.240 isn't it. It's almost too simple. I don't want to 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:13.679 encourage you. Don't diminish your value. Don't diminish what Jesus 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.960 did because he did it for you. He did it 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:21.400 because he loves you, because he was willing to trade 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.960 places with you. He was willing to say, I'll give 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:29.160 you my honor and I'll go through it all. See, 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:34.280 when we realize we can worship the Creator, we do 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:39.679 not have to worship the creation. The creation will never 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:44.200 give us eternal satisfaction. Only the Creator can do that. 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:49.320 Only the Creator that should let us know. We should 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.120 take the time to get the word of God in us. 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:56.200 Do like you're doing today. Get in church, fill yourself up. 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.920 Remember when you hear those voices of confusion, that at 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:05.280 than usation, that questioning your identity and your worth. That 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:09.480 is not from God, that is from the enemy. And 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:13.400 you have the answer. I am the righteousness of God 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.400 in Christ Jesus. God's got me in the palm of 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.920 his hand. He's not gonna let me fall. He's not 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.720 gonna let me go because I am stamped and heaven bound. Amen. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.320 He Amen. We love you so much. 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.760 Thank you for listening to the Joelustine podcast. Help us 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.680 continue to share the message of hope with those all 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:39.760 over the world. 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