Restoration of Identity
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today we continue our week on the parable of the prodigal son, by looking at the son’s restoration of identity. The way we see ourselves changes our lived experience of every day. And the world around us often sends us a totally different message about who we are than who our Father in heaven says we are.
May God align our perspective with his today, as we apply the restoration of identity from Jesus’ story to our own lives.
Our Scripture for today comes from 1 Peter 2:9, and today's worship is Graves Into Gardens by Elevation Worship feat. Brandon Lake.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's podcast, we continue our week on the parable of the prodigal son by looking at the son's |
| 0:10.2 | restoration of identity. The way we see ourselves changes our lived experience of every day, and the |
| 0:17.3 | world around us often sends us a totally different message about who we are |
| 0:21.5 | than who our Father in heaven says we are. |
| 0:24.2 | So may God align our perspective with His today as we apply the restoration of identity |
| 0:29.5 | from Jesus' story to our own lives. |
| 0:32.8 | Welcome to the First of team podcast. |
| 0:49.7 | Our verse for today comes from 1 Peter to verse 9. |
| 0:59.1 | Scripture says, but you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, |
| 1:05.9 | that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. |
| 1:14.6 | The restoration of identity to the rebellious and wayward son in the story of the prodigal son is perhaps the greatest example of God's heart to restore you and me as his children. |
| 1:21.6 | In the story, the rebellious son returns to the father, hoping solely to be allowed to serve his father as one of the slaves. |
| 1:30.1 | But as the son approached his home, the father ran out to meet him, and immediately brought |
| 1:35.8 | restoration to his identity as a good and pleasing son in his eyes. |
| 1:42.3 | 2 Corinthians 5 verse 17 says, |
| 1:45.0 | Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, |
| 1:48.0 | He is a new creation. |
| 1:50.0 | The old is passed away. |
| 1:52.0 | Behold, the new has come. |
| 1:55.0 | Through faith in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, |
| 2:00.0 | we have been transformed from a rebellious and sinful people into reflections of our Savior. |
| 2:07.6 | God ran out to meet us at our point of greatest weakness and clothed us with a new nature that we might no longer sin against him, but live with him in glorious, powerful communion. |
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