God knows who we are.

 

And His word states that over and over and over again.

 

In Psalm 139 and Jeremiah 1 He says that He knew us as we were being knitted together in our mother’s womb……

 

And in Romans 1 He says we are without excuse.

 

This is because God gives us control over our destiny.

 

We are not some cosmic accident.

We are not the victim of our circumstances.

We are not destined to be ruled over by our biology.

We are not what are temptations tell us to be.

 

But society today would tell us different.

Society would tell us that we are the very victims of the earth, and our thoughts.

 

The entire faith comes down to this issue.

We are either who our biology tells us to be and ruled by our own thoughts and temptations……OR we are ruled over by God.

 

IF God is right, we had better take heed of that.  Because He warns us that the enemy will look to steal, kill, and destroy.  He warns us that we are to follow Him–not our lusty desires. He warns us that we are not the victims of where we are born, or how much we have, or who we are known to be—but that we are His children.

 

I believe the latter.

 

I believe that I am a child of God and that my God bought me at a price and that my God is the ruler over my universe.

 

Yes…I will be tempted to do the wrong thing and sometimes do the wrong thing.

Yes…I am born into sin and live in a world that is full of sin.

Yes…Our world is broken.

 

But guess what?  I have a choice.

 

I can choose God.

 

I can choose life.

 

I can choose to be born again.

 

This means that my temptations do not get to tell me what to do or who to be.

It means that I can be forgiven and begin to think a new thought and live a new life.

It means that I have the right to born (as John 1 says) NOT of a human decision–but born of God!

 

This contradicts everything the world is currently now preaching.

 

And it is exemplified by what Jesus asks the man in John chapter 5.  “Do You Want To Get Well?”

 

John 5 1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews.  2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.  3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie–the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.  5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” 

7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” 

8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”  9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. 

 

We must decide if we want to be well of what we are tempted to do.

We must decide if we want to be a child of God or a victim of our own biology.

We must decide if we want to have God—or not.

 

God does not, and will not, adjust who He is to what we want Him to be.

He is going to ask us to turn away from the things that we want to do and trade them for the greatest life we could ever have.

He is going to ask us to live as HIS child, not a child of the earth.

 

I have tried to do it myself.

I have tried to live out my call through my own works.

I have tried to be who I wanted to be–and not who He wanted me to be.

And 100% of the time…..I have failed.

 

I choose Jesus.

I choose who He has called me to be.

I choose to follow His leading.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjhANyrKpv8

 

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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