I want to learn to

to learn to increasingly identify as a man who belongs to Jesus.

And I want to invite you towards the careful cultivation of that identity.

Not just the recitation of your salvation story.

I'm grateful you're born again.

I believe in the new birth and conversion

that initiation into the kingdom, but I want to lead a life fully identified in Jesus.

And I want to invite you to that as well.

It's the most remarkable way to live.

You won't get great cultural affirmation,

but you'll get tremendous affirmation

from the host of heaven.

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Now it's on to Pastor Allen. Be blessed.

We're working through a series on this theme of clarifying your identity.

There is a great deal of discussion these days around how you identify.

To the point that we've crossed beyond the absurd. It's in the bizarre. It's like you wake up every morning and

decide who or what you'll be. And they tell us that and with a straight face and

accept us to expect, anticipate that as being normal or it should be normalized or

routinized. I don't agree with that. And I think that we got to that place not

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