Jesus’ True Family

Mark Driscoll Audio

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jesus teaches that identity results in activity: who we are in Christ determines what we do. If you are a light, shine in the darkness of the world. Your light also should continue to grow brighter. Maturing as a Christian requires listening carefully to God’s Word and God’s preachers. The powerful preacher George Whitefield (1714–1770) offers six exhortations for how to listen to a sermon. Finally, in the church, serve like family; true family members hear what they are supposed to hear, and then do what they’re supposed to do.

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0:00.0	On behalf of Pastor Mark Driscoll, we want to thank you for allowing us to bring you
0:07.3	Jesus Center Bible teaching. Like Pastor Mark always says, it's all about Jesus. To get
0:15.1	all Pastor Mark's sermons, blogs, books, and other content, please visit us at markdriscoll.org.
0:23.5	There you can also sign up to receive additional free content from Pastor Mark and support this
0:29.1	ministry with a gift of any amount. Thank you. We're going to do a little Bible now. We'll be in
0:36.0	Luke 8, 16-21. I'm going to go ahead and pray and we're going to study God's word, Father God.
0:42.1	Thank you that you are a Father, you're a Dad who loves the Church, your family. Thank you,
0:48.0	Lord Jesus, that you're the big brother who came to take away sin and give salvation and allow us
0:54.1	to experience adoption into the family of God. As we open your word, please open our hearts and
1:00.9	minds to learn and to receive what you would have for us in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, here's
1:08.5	where it's going to go today. There is a parable told by Jesus as well as a teaching moment that will
1:16.0	enjoy from Him and in both of these, He's working from identity to activity. And this is the reverse
1:24.0	of how religion and most people in our world work. In our world, including sadly, in false teaching
1:30.9	churches and non-Christian religions, it is predicated on activity establishes identity. So you do
1:38.8	something to become someone. In religion, this would be you, you have to give, you have to serve,
1:44.8	you have to pray, you have to go to Mecca so that God would find you pleasing in his sight.
1:49.7	You have to reincarnate, you have to suffer, you have to go to purgatory so that God would find you
1:55.2	pleasing in his sight so that you could be in a loving relationship or at least a forgiving
2:01.8	relationship with him. So activity creates identity. The secular version is you're defined by your
2:08.3	appearance, by your job, by your performance, by your status in life. So it's whatever you do or
2:14.7	accomplish that determines your identity. In Christianity, it's completely the opposite.
2:21.7	Through the grace of God and the work of Jesus and the love of the Father, we receive an identity.
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