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Jab 1
Let’s make a deal
What if… you were holding a suitcase with a thousand dollars, or maybe a new Hyundai…or think of the thing you value in your life.
Your career, children, guitar,
Jesus stands there in Monte Hall’s space and asks you to give up what you hold for what’s behind door number 1.
In the game show that’s a gamble, but what about with Jesus?
Jab 3
Transition (5:21)
In the beginning of this series we discussed how we all bring a variety of “identities” with us.
Our jobs, families, skills, and more are identities we carry along for the ride.
As evidence, look to the athlete who loses his career to an injury.
You can tell really quickly if athletics was an identity or a career.
Throughout this series in have been making the case that in Christ we have a new identity which supersedes all the others.
We are loved, adopted, citizens of a new kingdom, and because of those truths we now carry the identity of a minister (one who gives we have to aid those without) to a lost world.
But what happens to those old identities?
Going back to Jesus as a game show host, what happens when we trade the one for the other?
Now that your old identity has been taken, what happens?
Today’s text shows us two things.
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It shows us how to live the right way.
2. It shows us an amazing truth.
When we give up those other things as identities…God gives them back.
But he gives them back complete and in their right place.
Paul gives us three pairs of examples of identities which once surrendered to Christ, come back better than they were, complete.
and in their right place.
eph 5:21
That was where we left it last week.
As we imitate God like dearly loved children, we are called to submit to one another out of reverence to Christ.
Submit.
That’s a tough word.
It’s easier to swallow when connected with Paul’s explanation.
If we take “Submit to one another” at face value, does that mean I do whatever my child tells me to?
Does it mean I receive poor treatment without addressing it?
Does it mean I don’t stand up for my needs and safety?
No.
Paul using specific roles to explain his point, helps us to recognize the fullness and beauty of submission.
2 things to keep in mind.
It’s still hard
The other person will not always appreciate it or even see it as submission
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Complete Wife
Eph 5:22-
Complete Husband
Eph 5:25-
Complete Children
Eph 6:1-
Complete Father
Eph 6:
Complete Worker
Eph 6:5
Complete Boss
EPh 6:9
Complete Submission (conclusion)
I’ve traded my identities.
I’ve given Christ my role as husband, father, pastor, geek, bald guy…all of it.
He has given me in return all of the truths we have discussed through this series.
My identity is first of all one who is “In Christ”.
Now all of those things come back to me in their correct space, completed.
Now I am a father in Christ.
I am a husband in Christ.
I am a geek, in Christ.
Questions
What are identities you carry apart from Christ?
Why are those important to you?
Which identity means the most to you?
How would losing any of that identity impact you?
Imagine you could ask Paul to write a section specifically about the identity you described.
How do you think he would write about that identity in submission to Christ?
Take time to pray for one another.
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