Teaching | Identity | Discovering Your Identity and Calling E02
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Who am I? Somewhere in our hearts, we all are seeking the answer to this question, trying to find security and worth. In this teaching, John Mark teaches us about who the Bible says we are. Jesus found his identity from Heaven, but we often find our identities from earthly things: in what we do, what we have, what we want, or even what others think about us. But the Bible says that not only is our identity rooted in Jesus and what He did on the Cross, but it is also rooted in our future with Him, rather than our past or present reality. John Mark closes by exhorting us to "live in a manner worthy of calling with which we have been called," and to embrace the fullness of God's identity and calling on our lives.
Key Scripture Passages: Matthew 3v13-17; Ephesians 1v1-15; Ephesians 4v1-3
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https://practicingthewayarchives.org/practices/identity-and-calling
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way. |
| 0:05.0 | This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon |
| 0:10.0 | as a part of the Discovering Your Identity and Calling series. |
| 0:14.0 | Hey, please turn in your Bibles to Matthew Chapter 3. |
| 0:25.0 | Well, we're really happy you're here wherever you are at with Jesus of Nazareth. |
| 0:29.0 | Last week, we kicked off a brand new series and with it a practice on discovering your identity |
| 0:36.9 | and calling. Basically, for us, the way of Jesus is just that. It is a way of life and it takes practice and in community. |
| 0:46.0 | So every few months we take on a practice from the life or the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. |
| 0:51.0 | And we talk about it on Sundays and then we go flesh it out in our |
| 0:55.6 | community and right now we're in the middle of discovering your identity and |
| 0:59.8 | calling it. Last week we read the story about Jesus from Matthew chapter 3 and a key moment in his own journey of discovering his identity and calling and like pretty much any really good literature, there are layers to the story. |
| 1:15.0 | And so I want to read that exact same story again, |
| 1:18.0 | but this week go a little bit deeper. |
| 1:20.0 | Matthew chapter 3, take a look at verse 13. |
| 1:23.3 | Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan |
| 1:26.3 | to be baptized by John. |
| 1:28.2 | John tried to deter him saying, |
| 1:29.8 | I need to be baptized by you. |
| 1:31.2 | Do you come to me? Jesus replied, let it be so now. It is proper for us to do |
| 1:37.0 | this to fulfill all righteousness. And apparently, like then John consented. I don't know how to say |
| 1:42.2 | no to Jesus. |
| 1:43.7 | As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water |
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