How to Find Yourself
AMEN PODCAST
Alex and Lokelani Wilson
5.0 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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This video challenges the popular idea of "finding yourself." The speaker argues that looking inward often leads to self-centeredness and sin. Instead, he encourages viewers to "lose themselves" in Christ and discover their true identity in Him through prayer, Scripture, and fellowship with other believers. amenpodcast.com/alexwilson
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on, guys? Another beautiful hot day here in Hawaii. I want to talk to you about |
| 0:06.4 | not finding yourself, losing yourself. The world tells us, find yourself, find yourself, |
| 0:12.8 | and that's because the world knows a secret. It's a secret that the enemy, who is the prince |
| 0:17.4 | of the power of the air, Apostle Paul tells us in his letters, has told and whispered into the world. |
| 0:23.8 | And our flesh, who's already dead and already ridden with sin, agrees with it, sings to the same melody that the world is singing of find yourself, find yourself, find yourself. |
| 0:36.0 | It's really hard not to give into that. |
| 0:38.2 | John 1225, John 1225, what does Jesus say? |
| 0:42.7 | Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life will find it. |
| 0:52.0 | What is he saying? |
| 0:53.4 | He's saying don't give into what your flesh wants what the enemy wants what the |
| 0:57.6 | world wants of finding yourself here's why the devil knows this the world knows this and the flesh know |
| 1:04.0 | this he's those are our three enemies as it says in the letters of apostle john they're all ganging up |
| 1:10.4 | with the same motive. Find yourself, find |
| 1:13.4 | yourself. Why? They want you to find yourself. They know that left to our own sinful nature, when we |
| 1:19.9 | find ourselves, what are we going to find? We're going to find sin. We're going to find evil. We're going to find |
| 1:25.6 | darkness and we're going to like it, we're going to find darkness, and we're going to like it. |
| 1:30.3 | Why do so many people in your life that you see, maybe even yourself, you feel your own potential |
| 1:36.4 | or you see the potential in others and you think, why do they keep on doing that blank? |
| 1:40.7 | Why do they keep going down that road? |
| 1:42.8 | Why don't they just repent and give themselves a God? |
| 1:45.6 | Life would change. Life would be so much better. They would realize their gifts. They could walk in |
| 1:50.1 | their purpose, walk in their identity. Why don't they do that? The reason why is because they are, |
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