50 - Who does God say you are?

In this episode, Johan teaches why believers must agree with God's Word concerning their identity. Discover what it means to be a child of God, an heir with Christ, and someone who speaks faith instead of doubt. 

This message will encourage you to embrace who God says you are and walk confidently in your identity in Christ. 

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Welcome to One Gospel, bringing you the full truth of God's Word. Clearly explained. Together with our host, Johann Tuit, we'll unpack scripture to understand what's written and grow as a disciple of Christ. Ready to take notes? Let's open the Bible.

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Hi there, and welcome to today's episode of One Gospel. I am your host, Joan Toot, and as always, I am excited to share the Word of God with you. And so I've started this teaching, this series called In Christ. And man, I've shared a lot and I've covered a lot concerning our identity in Christ Jesus, that you know who we are, and I've shared on you know how we are now blessed, how we now are favored. I've shared on you know how we have been chosen, have been accepted, you know, and um how we have been sanctified and we have been made holy in Christ Jesus, how we now are a new creation, a new man, you know, and then um you know I went uh to uh saying what God is saying in these last two episodes. And basically I have shared on you know how we should say what God is saying and we should not say what God is not saying. And if we say what God is not saying, then we should repent from that and immediately speak what God is speaking over that situation to counter that. And so uh I took the examples from as from Moses when he appeared to uh when God appeared to him in a fiery bush and said who he was and what he was gonna going to do through his hands. And Moses said, But I am not, I am not uh eloquent, I am slow of speech. And God, you know, became upset with him. He says, Listen, I have made man's mouth, and I'm gonna put my words in your mouth, and you're gonna say what I'm saying. You're not gonna say what you what you are saying, you're gonna say what I'm saying. Same story happened in Jeremiah when he appointed him as a prophet. He said, I have sanctified you, and I have, you know, I knew you in the in your womb, in the womb, not your womb, in the womb of your mother, you know, and I've sanctified you and I've appointed you as a prophet. And then he says, But I am not eloquent, I am but a child. And God says, Don't say, I am but a child. Say what I am saying. I'm gonna, uh you are gonna speak what I am gonna command you to speak. You're gonna speak my words. And these are instructions that God gave to us that we should speak his words. We should speak what God is speaking, we should say what God is saying. And even though we sometimes don't say what God is saying, we should just repent from that and just speak what God is speaking, you know, without condemnation or anything like that, but just because you know you have what you say. There is power in our words if we put faith in that what we say, and if we put faith in what the doctor says and speak then, then we will have what the doctor says. But if we speak what God says and have faith in what God is saying, and we speak that in faith, then we will have what God says that we have. That's why I always proclaim that I am who God says that I am, I have what God says that I am, and I can do what God says that I can do because he is not a man that he should lie. And so I believe God. And even though sometimes I say things that are not in line with the word of God, and I immediately, you know, realize no, this is not from God, this is my carnal man or whatever, unbelief or doubt. And I counter that then immediately with the with the word of God. And so then basically, in these two previous episodes, you know, um, I was sharing a lot on that we need to say what God is saying, and I also took some personal testimonies in that. And then I came to the point where we should say what God is saying about us uh to other people, and you know, and we should confess that all the time. And I took something that I know that a lot of people, you know, were like, What? You can't say that, you know, like that I said that I am a God, and that shocks people immediately when you say that, but you have to understand the context in which I am saying it, because Jesus, he also said, you know, uh, I am the Son of God, and so he made him to be equal with God, because he said before Abraham was I am, and they immediately knew that he reverted to when Moses, when God appeared to Moses, where he said, I am, that I am, has sent you. You know, and so they knew that he would make he was making himself God. Now he was making himself God Almighty because that's who he is. You know, I'm not making myself God Almighty, he is my father, I am his son, amen. And so the context is that whatever you sow is what you reap. So if I am now born of God, that makes me automatically a God, but not a you know, um almighty, you know, creator of heaven and earth, God, but a son of God, amen. So with a little g. And so Jesus said in uh John 10 34, he says, Is it not written in your law, I said you are gods? So God Himself says in Psalm 82, verse 6, he says, You are gods. And so if God says that I am a God, then I am a God. And he says, If he called them gods to whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken, do you say of him who the Father sanctified and sent into the world, you are blaspheming because I said, I am the Son of God? Jesus was saying, you know, what he said in their law. If that already was saying to people that were people and not, you know, to Jesus, you know, the Christ, you know, then how much more, you know, uh if he said it. So the point I wanted to make is that God calls us gods, and I am born of God, and therefore I can say that I'm a God. And let me continue in this teaching. Father God, thank you so much for your word. I pray it's gonna be a blessing to those who hear. I give you all the glory in Jesus' name. Amen. I'm sorry. And so now you can say that you are a son of God, and therefore you are a God. Then I want to look at what that really means because it is not for you to say and everywhere to call out, you know, I am a God, I am a God, I am a God. I mean, if you're gonna start doing that, people will lock you up, you know, they will think you are crazy, that you are mental if you say that. You have to understand the context. And the context is that you understand what your identity is, that you understand who you are in Christ. In Christ, you have become so much more than just a saved sinner. I'm sorry, you have become so much more than just I was darkness, but now I am in the light. I was lost, but now I am found. You have become so much more, and I want to look at that, and then when we understand that, that we also start to speak it. And so it's not, you know, for you to go around, you know, saying to everybody, I am a God, I am a God. No, it's for you to understand that you know who you are, that you understand your identity, that you that you understand I am in this world, but I'm no longer of this world. You know, I am no longer just blood, flesh, and the will of man from blood, flesh and the will of man. I am now born of God, I am a spiritual being, I am a temple of the Holy Spirit, I am now an inhabitant of the kingdom of God, I am now in Christ, and Christ is now within me. I have his very nature, I have his very spirit, I am as he says, that I am in this world. I am a God, but not the one that has created us. Amen. I am his son, and so you need to understand the context. It's not about the sentence that you can say that, it's to understand that you know who you are and what you may do. Now, let's turn with me to Ephesians 5. Man, I know that there are people you know just cut these things out and then use them online and you know, ridiculize you, but that's okay. Go and you know, do what you want to do. Amen. So Ephesians 5 verse 1, it says, Therefore be imitators of God as their children. And so, and walk in love as Christ also has loved us and given himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God, to God for his sweet smelling aroma. I'm sorry. Man, I've got this thing attacking me in my throat. Out in the name of Jesus, amen. And so in the Amplified, it says it's like this it says, Therefore, because you are a son, because you are born of God, there is therefore, therefore, therefore, be imitators of God, copy him, and follow his example, as well, beloved children imitate their father. Man, this is a mouthful, and you really gotta understand what this is saying. Because you now are born of God, because you are now a son of God, because you now have his very nature, because you now have his very spirit, because you are now in him and he is in you, because this is all true, therefore, be imitators, copy him, and follow his example as well, beloved children. Imitate their father. Copy them, copy him. So I don't know, you know, are there people among us, you know, that are listening that wanted to imitate their father? Man, my father was not a really good example, but I really wanted to imitate him. You know, I remember stepping into his shoes, putting on his jacket, acting like he was acting, you know, saying what he was saying, doing what he was doing, you know, and and they encouraged me to do that also, you know, and so my father was not a good example because he was not a very great guy in the things that he did, and I copied the wrong things, but still I wanted to copy my father, I wanted to be like him, I wanted to walk like him, talk like him. There is this, there is this, you know, um how you say that cartoon movie called Jungle Book, very old, and um, and there is this song in it. I want to talk like him, walk like him, you know, and that song always kept with me, you know. But just want to you want to imitate, you want to copy your father, and so here it says that be imitators of God, copy him and follow his example as well, beloved children imitate their father. And so God wants us to follow him, to copy him, follow his example, and imitate him. Why? Because we can. We can imitate God, we can walk like God, we can talk like God, we can act like God, we can think like God, we can be like God, because as he is, so are we in this world. John 4 17. And so God is not a man that he should lie. I can imitate him and I can walk and do exactly as he is. You know, and then also let's like if I take a little bridge, we call Jesus our rabbi, we call him our master, our teacher, and I've teached on that also. But you know, when when in the I don't know if that still is like today, but you know, in the history, you know, when a rabbi said to uh his student, to his disciple, follow me, you know, he was saying, I want you to copy me, I want you to learn from me, I want you to do exactly what I'm doing, I want you to follow my example, I want you to walk in the dust of my feet and copy exactly what I am doing. Walk like I walk, talk like I walk, act like I act, say what I say, do what I do, be like me. That's when he said, follow me. And Jesus says, follow me.