Is there an Identity Crisis?
That depends on what team you’re on! Team Jesus or Team World?
Team Jesus believe, “We can do all things through Christ Jesus strength”, “We are blessed coming and going”, and “We are not of this World”!
“I have given them thy Word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. “I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.” (John 17:11, 14–15.)
As members of Team Jesus, we know exactly who we are and we have been given the Game Plan that spells out and spills out the Truth in and through us.
As for Team World, they want you to believe that there is a major identity crisis. They say “You have the choice to identify as whatever you would like to be”, “If it feels good then do it”, and “Live it up while you can”. They base everything on the principle that happiness is fulfilled by pleasing the lust of your flesh.
The Truth is the world says a lot of things that are not the truth!
As Followers of Jesus Christ, we have found our identity. When your Identity is in Jesus Christ, you are able to overcome and live a life of joy, love, and peace. We believe the Word, not the world. That extra L when you go from Word to world represent the Lie the enemy has used to deceive so many. Satan is the author of confusion and perversion.
2 Corinthians 5:17 (AMP) say, “Therefore if anyone is in Christ [that is, grafted in, joined to Him by faith in Him as Savior], he is a new creature [reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit]; the old things [the previous moral and spiritual condition] have passed away. Behold, new things have come [because spiritual awakening brings a new life].
Romans 8:37-39 (AMP) says it well, “37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors and gain an overwhelming victory through Him who loved us [so much that He died for us]. 38 For I am convinced [and continue to be convinced—beyond any doubt] that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present and threatening, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the [unlimited] love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Satan uses words to confuse, but the Word of God is the inspired Truth and It brings peace to the world. Jesus came as the Prince of Peace, in comparison to Satan who is called the prince of the world and the prince darkness.
I am going to avoid sharing this person’s name and I am committing myself to pray for this person often, because I know God is working on them, but I could hardly believe what he was saying in an interview recently. “Don’t call it Porn. Call it Adult Entertainment”. He was actually referring to a self proclaimed porn star and a porn movie. Just a few sentences earlier, he was talking about Jesus, God, and protecting children from evil. The amount of confusion that I was hearing was unreal, yet this person’s influence in the world is great. Seconds later he is including God and the F word in the same sentence. It was beyond saddening.
The Word of God says over and over to not fear, but instead cast your anxiety on God. 1 Peter 5:6-7 (ESV): Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
The word “anxiety” in the Greek means to pull apart. I believe this screams exactly what Satan is doing right now. Pulling families and lives apart by unleashing evil and darkness into the world.
In comparison let’s take the word “Peace”, which means to tie or bring together. Jesus came to bring the Truth and the body of Christ together so we can conquer the darkness.
Satan’s goal is to create anxiety by dividing, confusing, and perverting the Truth. If he can confuse you about your identity, then he can open the door to so many other lies and so much more darkness.
Identity is eternally important and this is exactly why the enemy is behind the identity crisis in the world today. The difference in spending eternity in Heaven or burning in Hell comes down to your decision to identify the Truth. Will you Believe the Truth or the Lie? Team Jesus or Team World?
Satan constantly deceives and perverts. Doing things like taking God’s promise, the rainbow, and trying to identify it with something that is not the Truth. God is Love and God loves everyone, but God hates sin. Satan sells sex, porn, and perversion, instead of the beauty of love between a man (husband) and a woman (wife) in marriage. It is true, all sex outside of marriage is sin and that we all sin and come short of the Glory of God.
“This righteousness of God comes through faith in Jesus Christ for all those [Jew or Gentile] who believe [and trust in Him and acknowledge Him as God’s Son]. There is no distinction, since all have sinned and continually fall short of the glory of God, and are being justified [declared free of the guilt of sin, made acceptable to God, and granted eternal life] as a gift by His [precious, undeserved] grace, through the redemption [the payment for our sin] which is [provided] in Christ Jesus, whom God displayed publicly [before the eyes of the world] as a [life-giving] sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation (propitiation) by His blood [to be received] through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness [which demands punishment for sin], because in His forbearance [His deliberate restraint] He passed over the sins previously committed [before Jesus’ crucifixion].” Romans 3:22-25 AMP
“Let your gentle spirit [your graciousness, unselfishness, mercy, tolerance, and patience] be known to all people. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious or worried about anything, but in everything [every circumstance and situation] by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, continue to make your [specific] requests known to God. And the peace of God [that peace which reassures the heart, that peace] which transcends all understanding, [that peace which] stands guard over your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus [is yours]. Finally, believers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and confirmed by God’s word, whatever is pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable and of good repute; if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think continually on these things [center your mind on them, and implant them in your heart]. The things which you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things [in daily life], and the God [who is the source] of peace and well-being will be with you.” Philippians 4:5-9 AMP
The Game Plan for Team Jesus is clear and the confusion, deception, perversion, and darkness of Team World has never been more clear. God is Pro Life when it comes to protecting His Seed and His Creation. He made it crystal clear that He knows us in our mother’s womb.
God is also Pro Choice, if your referring to the power to choose where you will spend eternity. There has never been a greater love demonstrated than when our God sent His Son to die for us, so that we can choose to spend eternity with Him.
There has never been a greater demonstration of evil than in the world today as Satan is openly going after children. Telling a child they can identify as an animal and letting drag queens into schools. How so many could be so blind to this is hard to understand, but the blinders of sin can only be removed by the love and salvation of Jesus Christ. We must choose to turn from our selfish nature, dying to sin, and being born again through the redemption power of the cross, blood, and the resurrection power of Jesus Christ.
As addiction, suicide, and fear prey on the mental health of the world. Team World fails to get it. While they prey, We Pray! As members of Team Jesus we have the ability to Pray to our Heavenly Father. God sent us the the Power through the Holy Spirit to win this Spiritual Battle. The battle we must win is a spiritual war. We are to Pray, but then we are called to GO into all the world to share the GOOD NEWS.
The Bible says the world will be further and further ripped apart with fear and anxiety. The world’s answers to the problems are lies. They will continue to scream “Change your identity”, “Do whatever you feel like doing, because if it feels good, then it is your right”, and “Live it up. Smoke, drink, sleep with anyone or anything you want while you still can”. “You can’t make a difference”. Will you choose to listen?
One of Satan’s biggest lies is just wait until tomorrow to give up that selfish addiction that holds you captive and causes you to hold off on choosing Jesus. He knows that as long as you buy that lie, someday soon when Jesus returns for His Team, it will be too late for you to choose TEAM JESUS.