It Matters, Part 2

We all search for identity, but what if we’ve been looking in the wrong place? This message explores how the resurrection reshapes who we are.

Good News
Hillsong Worship

Washed
Elevation Rhythm

I Speak Jesus
Bethel Worship

Open The Eyes Of My Heart
Worship Circle

Who are you?

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Trying to find your identity outside of God will always leave you confused, empty, and searching.

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Exodus 13v17
When Pharoah let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, if they face war, they might change their minds, and return to Egypt.

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Exodus 13v18
So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea.

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Exodus 13v21-22
By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so they could travel by day or night. Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.

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The Exodus Pattern
God rescues, God forms, God dwells, and God sends

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Exodus 14v13-14
“Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance of the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

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Exodus 14v29-31
But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. That day the LORD saved Israel from the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the LORD displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and put their trust in Him and in Moses his servant.

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Exodus 15v1-2
Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. Both horse and driver He has hurled into the sea. The LORD is my strength and my defense; He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

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Matthew 3v17
“This is my Son, whom I love, with him I am well pleased.”

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Romans 6v1-4
What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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Identity in Jesus
You were dead in your sin, you were buried with Jesus, you were raised with Jesus, you now walk in the newness of life.

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Mark #1
A follower of Jesus is one who finds their identity in Him.

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Galatians 2v20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

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