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Identity is the door to your destiny \\ You are a sum total of all the decisions you make.

\\ On what do you base your decisions?

Why do people commit adultery?

They forget they who they are; I am a husband I can’t do this.

\\ \\ What is the common denominator for people making bad decisions?

Men of God don’t do things like this.

Christian homes don’t act this.

The Body of Christ doesn’t do those types of things.

Pastors don’t do this.

\\ \\ Why do people do these things?

In a moments notice the devil had stolen their identity.

That is the common denominator.

\\ \\ Your identity is the key to your destiny \\ When you know who you are confidence rises up in you.

Then you know what the next step is for your life.

\\ \\ ~* The goal of the enemy is to steal the identity of the believers.

\\ If Satan can get you to forget about who you are, then you will forget about your destiny.

\\ \\ When your identity is stolen then you end up turning into a guy like this.

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We will give you solutions to identity theft.

\\ \\ \\ Help getting your life back.

You just need to know who you are.

\\ I want to give you some Biblical solutions to prevent identity theft in your spiritual walk.

\\ The devil will no longer steal our identity if you know who you are.

\\ When he steals your identity you forget where your destiny is.

\\ \\ Identity theft is a serious thing in our country.

\\ Visiting through our airports, then we want to know who you are.

We are now Finger printing all people coming into our country so we can put them in our system.

We want to know who they are.

Why?

Because your identity tells us how you are going to act.

\\ ~*Don’t tell me what you do!

I am a plumber, I am a nurse….no

\\ Tell me who you are.

\\ There is something about identity that is linked to destiny issues.

\\ Tell me who you are and I will tell you what you are supposed to be doing.

\\ \\ Every 79 seconds in America there is an identity theft victim the stealing of someone’s identity.

\\ Technology tells us in the next two years there will be a massive identity theft crisis in our nation.

\\ \\ ~*Not just natural also in the spiritual.

\\ The devil is about to unleash a deceptive tool.

A massive identity theft conspiracy \\ \\ Because if he can get you for just a moment to forget who you are; he will get you to make decisions based on your emotions and not based off of your identity.

\\ \\ Identity theft is a serious issue \\ \\ Random check of credit reports in 2003 50% credit reports checked were victims and they didn’t even know.

It is serious \\ 1 of 50 people will fall victim to it in 2004.

\\ It will take every victim close to $1500 dollars to repair the damage and get things put back together not counting lawyers fees \\ \\ ~*Here is the tragedy of identity theft- \\ You can spend your whole life building your credit, building your identity credit and in one moment somebody steals your identity and your future is destroyed.

\\ \\ The same thing happens in the spiritual realm.

You can spend your entire life building your spiritual identity but all it takes is one moment to forget who you are and make a stupid decision and it will take you and I years to fix what one decision did, because we forgot who we are.

\\ \\ ~*Identity is a powerful thing.

\\ When you learn who you are you stop wondering around wondering what my next step is.

Just figure out who you are and what you do becomes natural a no brainier.

\\ \\ God understands this.

Exodus- God introduced to Moses in a burning bush \\ First time God is appearing the people of Israel.

First time.

\\ Lead my people out of Egypt.

Moses asked in chapter 3…what is your name … my name is I am who I am.

You tell them I Am sent you.

What was God doing?

\\ Moses wasn’t asking please tell us what you are going to do for us.

Tell us your actions your destiny what kind of God are you going to be.

Who are you because your identity will tell me who you are going to be? \\ \\ I am that I am has sent you.

\\ \\ In other words, tell them whatever they need me to be whenever they need me to be it that is the kind of life I will life because of my identity \\ \\ God comes on the scene before you can understand my destiny you have to understand my identity \\ Before you can walk in your destiny you must walk in your identity \\ Before you can walk in gods plan for your life as a father, as a husband, a man of god as a single adult, before you can walk in God’s promises you have to under stand you identity \\ \\ When you forget who you are is when you make dumb choices \\ \\ Scripture tells us 2 Samuel 11 King David’s problems started when he forgot who he was.

\\ \\ 2 Samuel 11:1 “It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David stayed at home…” 1 Samuel 15 \\ \\ In a moment, for a moment David forgot I AM A KING. Kings don’t stay home at spring they go out to battle.

\\ \\ My identity determines my destiny \\ It determines how I act.

It determines what I do.

\\ And for that split second David said, “Oh, forget that I am a king.

I am staying home.

\\ Because of momentary laps he forgets who he was and he watches Bathsheba sun bath.

\\ Because of that minute of forgetfulness…He makes a decision to have Uriah killed.

It catapults to blood on his hands and god says you can’t build a temple for me because you got blood on your hands \\ All of the sudden…everything he had built was annihilated simply in a moment because he for got who he was a king.

\\ \\ How many times as a people are we willing to sacrifice our destiny for a momentary pleasure of forgetting WHO we are?

\\ \\ I look at times in my life Life is all about choices…where we are right now is not because of how big the devil is, its not because of where I was born…rich, black, poor life is not about the cards you are dealt…lucky Life is a result of the choices we make.

\\ \\ ~*SOONER or later you have to quit blaming what everyone else has done to you in life look in the mirror this day forward \\ My destiny is going to be decided by who I am and the choices I make \\ \\ Your choices and my choices are always based on who I think I am.

Always \\ They are based on my identity.

My self esteem.

How do I look at myself?

What do I think of my self?

\\ \\ Before I can walk in my destiny before I can walk in the promises of God I have to figure out WHO AM I?

You have to settle the issue of WHO AM I? \\ \\ Even Jesus understood this.

He understood that identity related to destiny \\ He was born for the purpose of dying \\ He gets to the river Jordan …do you know that from the day he was born to the day he was baptized leaving heaven he had never heard his heavenly Father speak to him.

He didn’t have to.

They were one.

\\ \\ He is now getting ready to enter into his destiny of what he came to this earth to do.

\\ \\ There are time when you are entering into what you believe is your destiny.

I am telling you your destiny is always put on hold until you settle the issue of identity \\ \\ You will never be the husband you are supposed to be until you settle the identity of what is a godly husband…mother wife student teacher minister business owner, single adult senior saint.

Never.

You have to settle the identity issue \\ \\ So Jesus is coming on the scene he is getting ready to start his ministry and what is the first thing that God does \\ Splits the heavens and says---- \\ \\ Matthew 3:17 “Behold a voice from heaven says, “This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.”

\\ \\ If I were God, to make sure there was no misunderstanding, I would have split the heavens, thunder lighting earthquake, and said, let me take the next 45 minutes and tell you what my son is going to do over the next three and a half years.

I want to lay it all out for you so every one know this is what he is going to do for you.

Cross, die, spit on side split, beaten buried rise again bare the burden of your sin…God doesn’t to that.

\\ All he does is split the heavens and gives us the identity of Jesus.

Let me tell you his identity because when you know who he is (MESSIAH, IMMANUEL, SAVIOR….come to take away the sins of the world Named at birth…given his identity) you know what he is going to do \\ \\ God says I am not going to deal with the destiny issue I am going to deal with the identity issue.

\\ \\ Some of us are so concerned about what we are supposed to do.

Quit worrying about what you are supposed to do and figure out who you are supposed to be.

\\ \\ When you settle the identity the destiny naturally flows in your life.

\\ So God settles the identity.

This is my beloved Son \\ Jesus is looking up going CONFIRMATION I know who I AM.

\\ \\ Next thing is he is lead out to the wilderness Matthew 4. \\ Three temptations of Christ in the wilderness…do you realize what those were about?

\\ \\ When you see this you are going to understand this and it will begin to open a new door to your identity \\ Temptation #1 Matthew 4:3 “if you are the son of God.” Temptation is to the identity.

\\ \\ Temptation is to challenge the identity.

Do you know who you are?

That is what Satan was saying do you know who you are?

If you are the son of god turns stones to bread.