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[4891.52 --> 4892.72] I dare you to raise your hand.
[4893.76 --> 4895.52] 30-year-olds, look back at when you were 20.
[4895.60 --> 4896.44] Do you say the same thing?
[4896.66 --> 4899.50] You look back at yourself at 20 and be like, no, I had it sorted back then.
[4900.06 --> 4900.64] I had life.
[4900.64 --> 4900.94] No.
[4902.08 --> 4907.76] 50-year-olds, have your feelings, your convictions, your personal views, have they stayed completely
[4907.76 --> 4909.38] constant over the last 20 years?
[4910.82 --> 4911.72] No, of course not.
[4912.24 --> 4915.64] I'm not even going to ask the 60 to 100-year-olds in the crowd here today because they're going
[4915.64 --> 4916.30] to roll their eyes at me.
[4917.04 --> 4918.70] No, of course not.
[4918.70 --> 4924.28] Our convictions, our opinions, our feelings, our passions, they change as our lives evolve.
[4925.18 --> 4926.20] This happens to all of us.
[4926.26 --> 4927.38] We discover new things.
[4927.82 --> 4931.82] What once brought joy now brings pain and vice versa.
[4932.94 --> 4936.20] Love we once knew may now be gone.
[4936.48 --> 4941.08] And things we never knew before now may be the most important things in our lives.
[4941.14 --> 4941.92] That's life.
[4943.42 --> 4946.56] Ask any of the parents who just baptized their baby this morning.
[4948.70 --> 4950.16] Life changes.
[4951.44 --> 4959.14] Looking inward to your feelings and passions and intuitions to form your identity is fickle
[4959.14 --> 4959.84] at best.
[4961.26 --> 4962.26] God created us.
[4962.40 --> 4965.02] God created life way too complex for that.
[4967.00 --> 4974.60] Secondly, an identity that's achieved rather than received is exclusive by nature.
[4974.60 --> 4981.08] We can't base our identities on the things that we accomplish because that either elevates
[4981.08 --> 4982.26] or deflates us.
[4982.82 --> 4983.42] Think about it.
[4983.44 --> 4986.72] Maybe you're the best soccer player in your school growing up.
[4987.18 --> 4988.20] You play often.
[4988.32 --> 4989.34] You realize, hey, I'm good.
[4989.56 --> 4990.34] I love soccer.
[4990.38 --> 4991.06] I'm a soccer player.
[4991.48 --> 4992.06] I'm the best.
[4992.80 --> 4995.24] Then you graduate high school and you go to university and uh-oh.
[4996.38 --> 4997.52] You're not the best anymore.
[4998.28 --> 4999.62] You actually, you barely made the team.
[4999.62 --> 5002.82] That Christmas comes and you go down to Mexico.
[5002.94 --> 5003.44] You need a break.
[5003.50 --> 5004.14] You're on a vacation.
[5004.32 --> 5005.34] You walk into a little town.
[5005.92 --> 5008.16] You realize, oh no, there's 10-year-olds playing soccer here.
[5008.90 --> 5009.94] They're better than me.
[5011.78 --> 5017.54] Your identity as a soccer player is based purely on your skill level compared to everyone
[5017.54 --> 5018.34] else around you.
[5019.26 --> 5024.20] Your confidence in your identity now starts waning every time you see someone better than
[5024.20 --> 5024.38] you.
[5025.84 --> 5028.10] That's what achieving your own identity does.
[5028.10 --> 5030.24] It pits you against the rest of humanity.
[5030.68 --> 5033.30] You feel better so long as you're trashing other people.
[5034.04 --> 5040.12] As long as people aren't as skilled or enlightened or hardworking or insightful, you feel pretty
[5040.12 --> 5040.44] good.
[5042.68 --> 5048.72] But when others come around who are better or more insightful or they work harder or they're
[5048.72 --> 5053.84] more enlightened, seemingly, that's the pressing that deflates you.
[5053.84 --> 5059.10] Finding our identities within ourself is fickle.
[5059.36 --> 5062.76] Trying to achieve our own identities is exclusive to everyone else.
[5064.80 --> 5067.88] But rather than doing either, we need to look to Christ as our example.
[5068.52 --> 5070.20] Philippians 2, verse 7, it says this.
[5070.26 --> 5071.56] Get this from the King James Version.
[5071.56 --> 5076.92] He says, Jesus came down and made himself of no reputation.
[5078.12 --> 5081.02] Made himself of no reputation.
[5081.72 --> 5085.04] He became a servant and he humbled himself.
[5086.24 --> 5090.36] And obeyed God right up until death on a cross.
[5090.36 --> 5097.50] We look inwards and try to build ourselves up that way, build our identities that way.
[5097.54 --> 5099.10] We try to grow our reputation.
[5099.58 --> 5101.72] And Jesus came to the earth and did the exact opposite.
[5102.36 --> 5103.16] He looked outwards.
[5104.76 --> 5109.68] He saw what we were mired in and he came down and he made himself of no reputation to save
[5109.68 --> 5110.02] us.
[5111.50 --> 5112.90] And he knew he was chosen.
[5112.90 --> 5117.94] Peter is saying in our text today that you know who you are.
[5118.74 --> 5123.36] You don't need to dig deep within yourself or build your identities by comparing yourself
[5123.36 --> 5124.40] to the world around you.
[5125.18 --> 5128.80] You are a chosen people, a holy nation.
[5128.96 --> 5132.14] Our identities are achieved, are not achieved, sorry.
[5132.62 --> 5133.58] They are received.
[5134.70 --> 5135.14] Hallelujah.
[5137.72 --> 5141.72] We are a God who says we are a chosen, holy, and we are precious.
[5143.30 --> 5146.42] This truth needs to permeate our hearts regularly.
[5146.54 --> 5148.82] That's why we're called to pray regularly.
[5148.94 --> 5150.70] That's why we're called to read the word.
[5150.82 --> 5152.04] That's why we're called to fast.
[5152.34 --> 5156.28] That's why we're called to come together and gather as a community because we need to
[5156.28 --> 5159.36] be constantly reminded that our identity is in Christ.
[5159.68 --> 5160.82] We belong to him.
[5163.74 --> 5164.92] And we are called to go.
[5166.54 --> 5171.84] We are the church chosen by God to declare the gospel.
[5171.84 --> 5174.92] Notice what our text says here.
[5175.70 --> 5180.06] It says, we are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession that
[5180.06 --> 5180.78] we may, what?
[5182.36 --> 5187.28] Declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
[5188.06 --> 5189.76] And this is the final point, so stay with me here.
[5189.76 --> 5194.64] So often we use this terminology of sharing the gospel.
[5194.90 --> 5195.92] Go share the gospel.
[5196.96 --> 5199.50] I've come to learn that this language actually is a bit of a problem.
[5200.42 --> 5204.50] Sharing implies that there is a willing recipient.
[5204.50 --> 5208.90] So if I tell my kids to share their toys, it's because one kid feels left out.
[5209.30 --> 5213.70] If I'm sharing my money with someone who is in need, they're willing to receive it because
[5213.70 --> 5214.30] they're in need.