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[4486.06 --> 4491.38] Christ, Jesus Christ, he came to this earth and he lived the life that we should have all
[4491.38 --> 4491.74] lived.
[4492.10 --> 4497.06] And then he died the death that we all deserved to die in our place.
[4497.60 --> 4500.52] He became the sacrifice for us, atoning for our sin.
[4500.58 --> 4507.20] And then three days later, he rose again from the dead, declaring that sin and death had no
[4507.20 --> 4508.44] hold on him anymore.
[4509.48 --> 4514.90] And now because of that gospel truth of Christ's life, his death, and his resurrection, the
[4514.90 --> 4521.96] privilege of Jesus' obedience is now applied to the church, to all of us who believe.
[4521.96 --> 4528.60] We are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possessions, so
[4528.60 --> 4533.90] that we may declare the praises of him who, again, by his life, death, and resurrection,
[4533.90 --> 4535.24] called us out of what?
[4535.24 --> 4535.74] Darkness.
[4537.26 --> 4539.10] And into his wonderful light.
[4540.84 --> 4548.00] This identity of being God's chosen people is highlighted here this morning.
[4548.46 --> 4553.92] We baptized April and Dawson and Reuben this morning because they are a part of this promise.
[4554.98 --> 4561.10] They have all been chosen by God because, as Galatians 3 says, God's kingdom knows no gender,
[4561.10 --> 4563.14] no race, no age.
[4563.96 --> 4571.18] Our identity, as Peter says here, is not one we achieve, not one we achieve or accomplish
[4571.18 --> 4575.64] ourselves, but our identity is received by God.
[4577.26 --> 4579.54] Our identity is that we belong to Jesus.
[4579.68 --> 4580.80] We are a chosen people.
[4581.26 --> 4582.18] We are the church.
[4582.28 --> 4583.22] We are brothers and sisters.
[4583.36 --> 4586.24] We are a new creation, as it says in 2 Corinthians.
[4586.42 --> 4589.44] We are citizens of heaven, as it says in Philippians 3.
[4589.44 --> 4592.44] We are God's children, like it says in 1 John.
[4592.52 --> 4596.74] We are heirs of Christ, like it says in Romans.
[4596.96 --> 4604.10] Over and over and over again in the Bible, we read about how our identity has been given
[4604.10 --> 4606.10] to us by God.
[4607.72 --> 4610.12] This is so important right now.
[4610.34 --> 4615.50] It's so important in the culture we find ourselves in because in our modern Western culture,
[4615.50 --> 4619.18] we obsess about our identities.
[4620.50 --> 4626.64] Tim Keller points out some incredible realities on our identities that's being shaped by our
[4626.64 --> 4629.78] culture right now, so his voice is going to be entangled in the next five minutes here.
[4631.96 --> 4634.84] See, our identities are central to who we are.
[4635.78 --> 4638.12] Our identities give us a sense of worth in this world.
[4638.20 --> 4643.94] They get to the core of who we are and what makes us valuable in the context we find ourselves
[4643.94 --> 4645.94] in.
[4645.94 --> 4651.56] The problem is right now, as Christians, it's easy to profess God as our Lord and Savior,
[4652.56 --> 4655.92] but also let culture dictate who you are.
[4656.94 --> 4659.72] Also let culture dictate what your identity is.
[4661.34 --> 4666.96] We can say we're God's chosen people, but culture more often than not will point us in
[4666.96 --> 4668.68] an entirely different direction.
[4668.68 --> 4675.90] Historically, traditionally, people used to get their identities from their communities.
[4676.36 --> 4679.86] So traditionally, people's identities were rooted in the communities that they lived.
[4679.92 --> 4682.60] You were someone's son or someone's daughter.
[4682.74 --> 4685.26] You were someone's father or someone's mother.
[4685.38 --> 4691.04] You were known as part of a fabric of a town or a village, and you were known in that town
[4691.04 --> 4694.02] by the family you were a part of and the company that you kept.
[4694.10 --> 4694.92] That was your identity.
[4694.92 --> 4696.68] It was a communal identity.
[4697.94 --> 4699.86] In our culture, this is drastically different.
[4701.06 --> 4705.76] You've been told to look inside yourself to find out who you are.
[4706.68 --> 4713.16] You have to look deep within your soul, and there you will find your dreams and your passions.
[4713.52 --> 4715.86] You'll find your feelings, your intuitions.
[4716.62 --> 4718.12] And then what are you to do with those?
[4719.78 --> 4720.72] Express them.
[4721.74 --> 4722.80] That's who you are.
[4722.80 --> 4725.00] Don't let anyone else define you.
[4727.18 --> 4728.02] Find yourself.
[4728.14 --> 4730.60] And if you look deep enough, you can discover who you are.
[4731.58 --> 4734.64] If you can't, go on a trip and go find yourself.
[4736.98 --> 4737.80] Discover yourself.
[4737.94 --> 4742.60] Only you can define you, and far be it for anyone else to tell you who you are.
[4743.84 --> 4745.24] You can push this further, too.
[4745.34 --> 4746.52] Tim Keller uses this language.
[4746.52 --> 4749.90] He uses the language of a heroic narrative.
[4750.64 --> 4755.16] So again, traditionally, the heroic narrative, the story that made you a hero in traditional
[4755.16 --> 4757.16] cultures, was to deny yourself.
[4757.80 --> 4762.30] Was to actually deny yourself for the benefit and the purposes of your family and your community.
[4762.30 --> 4767.58] If you were to give yourself up for your family or your neighbors, that was honorable.
[4769.02 --> 4773.42] The heroic narrative of all culture is not self-denial, though.
[4773.84 --> 4774.60] It's the opposite.
[4775.08 --> 4778.94] Our heroic narrative in our Western culture is self-declaration.
[4778.94 --> 4786.22] People are now praised when they come out and stand up and declare themselves as something
[4786.22 --> 4786.98] or someone.
[4787.76 --> 4795.12] And they're especially praised if they do this at the expense of oppression or the oppressors,
[4795.46 --> 4799.80] which often takes the form of family or society or community.
[4799.80 --> 4805.48] In our culture, to think that someone else could name who you are, that someone else could help
[4805.48 --> 4810.16] shape you, someone else could form your identity, is villainous, actually.
[4811.14 --> 4815.70] But if you can discover yourself, if you can look inside your soul and discover yourself,
[4815.78 --> 4821.50] despite the tyranny of your family or society holding you down, that is praised right now
[4821.50 --> 4822.06] in our world.
[4822.70 --> 4826.44] And then once you discover who you are, you get to go on TikTok or on Instagram or some
[4826.44 --> 4829.10] other social media platform and announce it to the world.
[4829.80 --> 4835.00] What your newfound identity is, and you get to receive a flood of likes by a community
[4835.00 --> 4838.60] that probably doesn't even know you, which ironically affirms the decision that you've
[4838.60 --> 4840.12] made because community matters.
[4842.38 --> 4852.32] The problem is, trying to find your identity within yourself, it's not healthy, and it goes
[4852.32 --> 4854.54] against what God's calling on your life is.
[4854.88 --> 4856.86] Now, there's a bunch of reasons why, but we'll list two.
[4856.86 --> 4865.16] Firstly, looking within myself to my own passions, my own feelings, my own intuitions, to find
[4865.16 --> 4867.12] an identity is unstable.
[4869.06 --> 4876.52] My, Kevin's, me, my feelings, my passions, my intuitions have changed with the seasons,
[4876.66 --> 4878.52] it seems, as I grow older.
[4878.52 --> 4880.94] Yours all do, too.
[4882.22 --> 4886.14] 20-year-olds out there, if you're 20 years old, how many of you can look back at yourself
[4886.14 --> 4888.36] at the age of 15 and be like, yeah, I had it all together.
[4888.96 --> 4889.64] I knew life.
[4889.70 --> 4891.28] I wasn't doing anything dumb at 15.