THE BRAND PART II

The Brand (Part II)

BREAKTHROUGH IDENTITY HAS AS MUCH AS POWER ENCOUNTER

Ex. Israel’s Problem with identity

•    Grasshoppers
•        Didn’t feel they deserved it
•        Still saw themselves as slaves not victors

2 Peter 1:9

⁹ For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

I.    BEFORE

1.        Spiritually Dead

Romans 5:12

¹² Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned.

(“The death”) came to all men. “Came” is diēlthen, literally “passed or went through” or “spread through.” Eisēlthen, “entered into” (the first clause in the verse) means that sin went in the world’s front door (by means of Adam’s sin); and diēlthen, “went through,” means that death penetrated the entire human race,

The reason death spread to all, Paul explained, is that all sinned. The Greek past (aorist) tense occurs in all three verbs in this verse. So the entire human race is viewed as having sinned in the one act of Adam’s sin.

2.        Under the Domain of Satan

Ephesians 2:1-3

¹And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, ² in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, ³ among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

3.        Blind to the Things of God

Ephesians 4:17-18

¹⁷ This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, ¹⁸ having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

4.        Hopeless

Ephesians 2:12-13

¹² That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.

5.        Hoodwinked

2 Corinthians 4:3-4

³ But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, ⁴ whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

6.        Enemies of God

Romans 5:10

¹⁰ For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

II.       ENTER JESUS

1.        Became Sin on our behalf

2 Corinthians 5:21

²¹ For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Hebrews 9:28

²⁸ So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

2.        Became our Defense Attorney

1 Timothy 2:5

⁵ For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 7:25

²⁵ Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

3.        Shed His Blood

1 Peter 1:18-19

¹⁸ For as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; ¹⁹ But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

Hebrews 9:14

¹⁴ How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

4.        Broke the Power of Sin

Romans 6:14

¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

5.        Filled us with Himself

Ephesians 1:13

¹³ In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.

6.        Gave us Everything We Need

2 Peter 1:3

³ as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and 

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III.       NOT THE SAME

1.        Born Again.

1 Peter 1:23

²³ Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever.

2.        Justified.

Romans 5:1

¹Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

Romans 8:28-33

²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. ²⁹ For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. ³⁰ Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. ³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall. ³³ Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

3.        Sanctified.

1 Corinthians. 1:2

² Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.

4.        Blameless Before Him in Love.

Ephesians 1:3-4

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, ⁴ just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love.

5.        Children of God

Romans 8:16

¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

6.        Temples of the Holy Spirit and The Living God

1 Corinthians. 6:19

¹⁹ Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

1 Corinthians. 3:16-17

¹⁶ Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? ¹⁷ If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

7.        Royalty. 

1 Peter 2:9-10

⁹ But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; ¹⁰ who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.