I want you to think with me for a moment on the word evidence.

Our entire judicial system is based and built on evidence, the necessity of evidence,

clear evidence, unequivocal evidence, conclusive evidence.

Now that's not the case all over the world, because our laws are based on biblical foundation.

Evidence is anything or any fact that can be used to prove or disprove something.

It's proof or disprove of an action.

It's a confirmation of facts. It's a verification of truth. To claim to be a Christian or a believer in Jesus Christ, you have to provide evidence of that belief. I read not long ago about a senior

law enforcement officer who happened to be a wonderful believer. And he was speaking at a retreat

in Hume Lake, California. And he was speaking to these young Christians, and he said, you know, in my years of service as a law

enforcement officer, I arrested people, I have been witnessed in a court of law in situations.

I came across many Christians in my experience. All of that has led me to always ask myself the question.

If being a Christian becomes a crime, would I have enough evidence to convict me?

I must admit, I ask myself that question many times. Think long and hard about this. We have began a series

of messages entitled identity transformation. And we saw in the very first message how the Lord

Jesus so graciously, so lovingly, so patiently, began to transform Peter's identity from fishing

in the lake and provado into identity in Christ and in Christ alone. And we saw how many of us

see our identity, whether it be in our family or in our title or in our profession

or the company we work for. And the Lord would want every single one of us to be transformed

and that identity be placed in Jesus and Jesus alone. In fact, the Lord did this work in Peter's

life. The Peter, in turn, wanted to do this in helping other Christians

all over Asia by writing his first epistle, and he wanted to do what the Lord Jesus Christ

did in his life. He wants to do it in the life of others. And so we began in First Peter, last

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