RESTORING IDENTITY.

THEME: RESTORING IDENTITY

BASIC TEXT: And I said to him: What is your name? And he said, Jacob. Then he said, You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for as a prince you fought with God and with men, and prevailed. GENESIS 32.27-28

INRODUCTION

The loss of identity has been one of the great problems of this generation, men and women who over the years have had their identity deformed and today find themselves in a situation of not knowing who they are, in this study we will seek by the word of God the restoration of our identity.

WHAT IS IDENTITY?

Identity is a manifestation of who you really are, such a manifestation is given by your name, appearance, what you do, identity makes the difference between individuals, showing that we are not equal, each one has a temperament and personality, we can summarize that identity is a set of information that identifies a person.

IDENTITY IN THE WORLD

How do people see you out there? The way the world looks at people is not because it takes care of them, but because the world wants to imprint its image and identity on people and unfortunately the world exalts this type of image, the more corrupted the world rejoices, but what is its identity in world, does it correspond to the expectations of the world. Images like: flirt, drinker, tanner, party-goer are seen as normal by people who live according to the world.

And behold, a city woman, a sinner, knowing that he was at the table at the Pharisee's house, took an alabaster vase with ointment; Luke 7.37

Here is an example of how the world sees people, when Lucas writes about this woman in this way it is because that was how she was known, a sinful woman, that is, a woman of life, a harlot, why we have to know how the world sees us. If the world sees you in a distorted or bad way, it is time to restore our identity in the world.

IDENTITY IN THE FAMILY

I believe that there is no other place where identity shows itself more than in the family, as it is difficult to hide who we are inside the home, entire families have been destroyed by fathers and mothers have lost their identity to their children and their children following the path destroyer of your parents, when we talk about identity in the family we are talking about: Authority, education, protection, provision.

With regard to couples, it is necessary to recover an identity of love and understanding and mutual help.

You women are subject to your own husbands, as befits the Lord.

You husbands, love your wives, and do not be angry with them.

Children, obey your parents in everything, because this is pleasing to the Lord.

You, parents, do not irritate your children, lest they lose heart.

Colossians 3. 18-21

Parents' attitude needs to change towards their children, parents need to be more present, not transferring anger to children, consolidating love towards them, physical contact, such as hugging and kissing, this is very important, maybe many did not have this from your parents, but with our children it has to be different. How do your children see you and how does your wife see you?

IDENTITY IN THE KINGDOM

Our identity in the spiritual world is already clear, both God and the devil know who we are, but what is their identity in the kingdom of God, in the kingdom of God we always run the risk of not being totally true to God, because we are always tempted to live according to the world and its passions and live a double life, outside is one thing and inside the church another, identity in the kingdom needs to be clear because the price of living in appearance is very expensive, the person it gets lost anyway, so we need to secure our salvation in Jesus. The enemy is doing everything to get us lost inside the house of God. The most important identification we have today is the identity of children.

But to all who received him, he gave them the power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name; John 1:12

With this identification we have great access to the presence of God and thus we are sealed for salvation, but also when we have spiritual identification in the kingdom of God we also have authority over evil.

And some of the walking Jewish exorcists tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus on those who had evil spirits, saying: I treasure you through Jesus whom Paul preaches.

14 And those who did this were seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, chief of priests.

15 But answering the evil spirit, he said, I know Jesus, and I know who Paul is; but who are you?

We need to restore our identity in the kingdom of God and in the spirit world.

 RESTORING IDENTITY

How can we restore our identity, to the point of a great change and transformation, we understand that only God can do this, and we have as an example Jáco, which means cheater, God changed his name and changed his identity, we have as an example, Abram and Sarah, who had their names changed along with their identity, from an exalted father who was and without children, Abram became Abraham, father of multitudes and today his descendants are like the stars of heaven and like the dust of the earth, to have a transformed and healed identity we need to ask God.

And Jabez was more illustrious than his brothers; and his mother gave him the name Jabez, saying, Because I gave birth to him in pain.

10 For Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, If you bless me greatly, and my terms enlarge, and your hand goes with me, and you do not let evil be afflicted! And God granted him what he asked of him.

1 Chronicles 4.9,10

This man had a name which brought disgrace to his life, because it means: suffering, what causes suffering, imagine a person with that name, and in the old days the name was a prophecy of what the person did or would be, it is something very strong and this man did not accept this condition and identity of suffering and pain and asked God to change his life and so it happened, this can happen to us if we reject all identity deformed by sin and the world and thus the Eternal will be restoring the our identity.

CONCLUSION

Ask right now for the Lord to change and transform your identity in the world, in your family and in the kingdom and it will be like that in our lives.