Christ in Culture: Identity
September 3, 2018
1 John 3. 1-6 (CEB)
See what kind of love the Father has given to us in that we should be called God’s children, and that is what we are! Because the world didn’t recognize him, it doesn’t recognize us. Dear friends, now we are God’s children, and it hasn’t yet appeared what we will be. We know that when he appears we will be like him because we’ll see him as he is. And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself even as he is pure. Every person who practices sin commits an act of rebellion, and sin is rebellion. You know that he appeared to take away sins, and there is no sin in him. Every person who remains in relationship to him does not sin. Any person who sins has not seen him or known him.
Galatians 3. 25- 29 (CEB)
But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian. You are all God’s children through faith in Christ Jesus. All of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither slave nor free; nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Now if you belong to Christ, then indeed you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.
Identity is how we define ourselves. That definition impacts how we act and see ourselves. Sometimes we change our identity in order to appease others. Other times our identity changes through outside influences. Regardless, Christians are called to find their identity in Jesus Christ. As God’s Holy and Beloved children clothed with Christ, we can be the fullness of who we are.
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