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Today, we begin a new section of Romans chapter 5.
In the first 11 verse Paul was telling us about the blessings that come to those who are justified by faith in Jesus Christ.
Paul concluded that section by assuring us that God keeps those that are justified.
Paul essentially said, that because God the Father went to all this expense of saving you, by the sacrifice of His son Jesus Christ on the cross, surely he will keep you as His and carry you through to glory.
Last week Paul gave us assurance that God will take care of His people.
Paul argued from logic-Since God the Father, went to all this expense of saving of you, won’t he hold on to you?
Up to Chapter 5 Paul was talking about becoming justified by faith, now from chapter 5 onward Paul is talking about what happens to those who are already justified by fiath, or the christian
life.
He started with the blessings, and now he begins a new section.
Now Paul is going to begin to move on.
In this section coming up down the road Paul will be talking about the Christian life.
So now here for the rest of chapter 5, Paul is going to prepare us by going over issues of identity.
And that is what i want to talk about today, who are you?
Back in chapter 2, and chapter 3 Paul has been arguing that one thing that the whole human race has in common is this universal problem of sin.
Right?
I’m not going to make that case again, I’m just going to proceed as if we all agree with statement- All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God-Now since all have sinned, that makes all of us sinners.
We are sinners, that is who we are it is part of our identity.
So as we begin, I want to talk a little bit about identity.
We all have various traits that make up our identity, and that make us who we are.
We may be caucasian, or African, or Native American, or Asian, or another race.
We are a men or women.
We may be a wife or a husband, or a loyal friend, or an aunt, or an uncle.
We may be an athlete or a scholar, or a crafter.
There are carpenters and truck drivers, and nurses, and computer programmers, and executives.
We have all theses different things that make up our identity.
Some of these traits we choose.
We say, I would like to be nurse, so we head off to nursing school and study to become a nurse, or I like sports, I want to be Athlete so we go into training.
However, there are some aspects of our identity which we do not have a choice over.
Thisis really important as kids go through middle school and especially high school.
They look for the group they identify with and form a friend group.
Wether it is the farm kids or the football palyers.
The cheerleaders, or the band kids.
We relate to people becasue we share common interests, and we can understand thier struggles and what they are striving for.
It is sort of the first step.
To become a football player, you join the team and you hang out with the football players.
Practice spills into free team, and pretty soon your identity is that you are a football player.
This works really wel for things we have control over.
In other words I wanted to be a football player, so I joined up with the football team.
Or you maybe wanted to be part of that particular crowd.
For instance, we do not get to decide what race we are born into.
We do not get to decide if we are going to be tall or short.
Certain diseases are genetic, and we do not get to decide if we will have that disease or not.
But what happens when we do not have a choice.
In other words there are certain things that I’m just not going to have, gifts that i don;t posses, and no matter what i do I will never be able to idnify with a certain groups.
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