WEBVTT 00:00:01.280 --> 00:00:09.039 So we are continuing our series on the baptism of discipleship. 00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:13.919 We started talking about a biblical understanding of baptism. 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:16.480 We spent a good bit of time digging into that. 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:20.800 And then we began to talk about uh just what what does it mean? 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:25.039 What does baptism mean to Christianity, the biblical understanding of it? 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:25.679 What is it? 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:30.160 We talked about some types and shadows of it even in the Old Testament or the Old Covenant. 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:37.200 You see baptism as a thread throughout Scripture and throughout God's people. 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:50.240 And then obviously in the New Covenant, we see a different version, if you will, of baptism and not just water baptism, but baptism in general, the spiritual element, the spiritual principle of baptism. 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:52.560 There's more than just baptism in water. 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:53.679 It's a spiritual thing. 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:55.200 So we spent time talking about that. 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:57.119 You can go back and listen to those messages. 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:02.960 And then we spent a significant amount of time talking about what does it in the name mean? 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:04.719 What does in the name mean? 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:07.040 So we dove into that, we studied that. 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:11.040 And if you weren't uh here for those messages, I would encourage you. 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:13.120 Those are foundational to these teachings. 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:18.879 They build on each other, and so it's foundational to the understanding of what I'm going to talk about today. 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:23.200 I'll do a short recap, but I don't have enough time to go into depth with it. 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:25.280 So go back and listen to those. 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:29.280 Those are on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:40.719 But I believe that, and I'll say this over and over because it's one of those things that we have to get, we have to understand it, or a lot of other stuff doesn't make sense. 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:43.920 It's what I call a keystone spiritual biblical principle. 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:48.480 It it it if you don't understand it, you can't understand other things. 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:55.280 And if you understand it, it unlocks other revelation and other things that you can get in the scriptures. 00:01:55.439 --> 00:02:00.000 And so we're talking about a baptism of discipleship. 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:07.359 Let's jump into Matthew 28, 18, one of our texts for this entire series. 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:13.680 This is after the resurrection, Jesus comes and appears to his disciples. 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:20.240 In verse 18, he says, I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:39.599 Therefore, in other words, in light of the fact that I have all authority in heaven and on earth, therefore, go, say go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the name of the Son and the Holy Spirit. 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:44.800 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you and be sure of this. 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:50.479 I am with you always, even to the end of the age. 00:02:51.439 --> 00:03:00.879 And so one of the things we continue to talk about and dig into and remind ourselves is that Jesus wasn't talking about water baptism in this text. 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:04.719 He wasn't talking about, wasn't in the conversation at all. 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:09.120 So he wasn't giving us language for water baptism. 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:15.680 He wasn't giving us something to tack on to the end of a prayer when we pray for somebody. 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:21.199 He was giving us what I believe is a model of discipleship. 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:23.680 Let's pray. 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:29.919 Father, thank you that we can come to your word and we can ask you to reveal it to us. 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:40.879 So many times we see in scripture where it says, You opened their minds and you helped them understand your word and your teachings. 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:49.360 And we pray that prayer today, that you would open our minds and help us to understand the scriptures. 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:55.520 You, Holy Spirit, teach us, lead us into all truth today. 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:57.039 In Jesus' name. 00:03:57.280 --> 00:03:57.919 Amen. 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:08.560 Every single one of us as Christians is called by the smallest and one of the most powerful words in the Bible. 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:10.400 The word go. 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:21.600 Mark 16, verse 15, again, and Jesus told them, Go into all the world and preach the good news to everyone. 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:27.439 I've heard it said like this: without the go in gospel, all you have is a spell. 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:35.600 Everything that Jesus said, did, and is always leads up to this point. 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:37.680 To this moment. 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:49.360 If you are a believer, if you are a follower, if you are a disciple of Jesus, everything that he said and did always leads up to this moment in our lives. 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:59.519 Not just in the lives of the disciples that were standing with the resurrected Lord before he ascended into heaven, but with you today. 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:07.680 And the question is this will his work stop with you or accelerate through you? 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:21.680 The disciples had years with Jesus to receive and obtain his love, acceptance, his power, his teaching, his way of life, and his habits. 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:24.000 And now this is his instruction. 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:24.639 Go. 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:31.839 Take the things that you got from me, that you learned from me, that you heard from me, that you saw me do. 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:35.920 Take those things and go and help others. 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:40.079 How many of you know we're called to be rivers, not reservoirs? 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:46.000 Jesus didn't say that out of our bellies would be reservoirs of water. 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:50.160 He said would flow rivers of living water. 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:56.079 And the only difference between the two is that one goes and one sits. 00:05:56.480 --> 00:06:01.839 One releases what it has and the other one keeps what it has. 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:12.959 One receives and one receives and doesn't give, and one receives and releases what it has received. 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:22.160 Being a reservoir, listen, is the kingdom of this world's plan for your life, for my life, for our life. 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:29.120 Gathering and not giving, building and not blessing, receiving and not releasing. 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:32.639 That is the kingdom of this world's plan for you. 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:36.319 And remember who rules the kingdom of this world. 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:43.920 Gather, gather, gather, build, build, build, and for what? 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:46.319 Listen to me. 00:06:46.639 --> 00:07:01.439 If you're not tithing and giving to God what belongs to him, if you're not investing the time and the resources that he has given you, you are failing to recognize that it all comes from him. 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:04.399 It all comes from him. 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:15.439 Everything you have, everything you've produced, everything you are gathering, everything you are building, it all comes from him and belongs to him. 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:37.439 If you're not releasing those things to advance his work, his family, and his kingdom, one day you will stand before God, and everything you spent and the work from every hour that you invested building and building and building is going to burn like wood, hay, and stubble in his presence. 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:54.319 When we take the things that he has given us and we use them for his work and to advance his will in the earth, it attaches eternal significance and value to those otherwise natural things. 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:56.639 Listen to me. 00:07:56.879 --> 00:08:11.680 When God invites us to tithe and to give and to serve and to lay our life down and to be about his business, when he invites us into that, that is one of the most powerful and gracious things that he could ever do. 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:27.519 It's one of the greatest opportunities a human being could ever have that I can take these natural things that I'm gathering and building and accomplishing, that I can take these and I can partner with God with it in his work. 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:47.360 Literally redeems all the hours, all the time, all the dollars, all the effort that we spent gathering and building when we bring it to him and we use it, we release it to build and to advance his will in the earth. 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:48.720 Listen to what it does. 00:08:48.879 --> 00:09:06.399 It supernaturally creates a conversation, a conversion, rather, of what would be wood, hay, and stubble, and it converts it to gold that has been tested and purified that will last not only in this life, but also in the life to come. 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:13.200 It's part of his grace and his kindness to us. 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:24.799 So when he says go, when he says give, when he says be a river, when he says that, when everything that he does leads up to those moments, that is his grace. 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:35.759 If there's conflict in your heart because of that, there's conflict with his grace, there's conflict with his mercy, there's conflict with his love and his ways and his kindness. 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:38.080 He's wanting to bless you. 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:46.879 And remember what Jesus said: if you try to keep your life, if you try to hold on to it, you will lose it. 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:53.360 But if you will lose it, if you will release it, if you will let it go, then you will find it. 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:05.039 When we go and when we give, we store up treasure in heaven that will outlast this earthly life. 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:18.399 When what he gets to us is released through us, listen to me, the river flows, the kingdom grows, and eternal significance becomes our bottom line. 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:22.720 How many of you know if it won't last in eternity, it's not the bottom line. 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:33.360 I don't know what your bottom line is in your business or whatever, but if it won't last in eternity, it is not the bottom line. 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:42.320 And however much of your life you spend on the wrong bottom line, you will be disappointed. 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:52.480 Going is the only power needed to turn an ordinary person into an extraordinary hero. 00:10:52.960 --> 00:11:07.600 The power of the gospel message, a testimony of a life transformed and changed by the love and acceptance of God through the finished work of Christ and released to change others the way they were changed. 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:09.919 It's the only power needed. 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:13.519 It's such a small word, such a powerful word. 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:15.519 Go, go. 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:28.159 Take all the things that you've received, all the things that you've learned, all the things that you've encountered, and go and let it flow through you like a river into somebody else. 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:32.480 Go, go, go. 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:33.600 Jesus says, go. 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:35.200 This is the culmination. 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:36.879 It all leads to this. 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:38.879 The disciples gave up everything. 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:50.480 Listen, they gave up businesses, they gave up money, they gave up families, they gave up houses, they gave up careers, they gave their lives, and that is what it all led to. 00:11:50.799 --> 00:12:00.960 That moment where Jesus says, go and make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, and in the name of the Holy Spirit. 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:04.960 Teach these disciples to obey all the things that I've commanded you. 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:11.279 In other words, all the things that I've commanded you, that I taught you, that I shared with you, go and teach them to somebody else. 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:23.279 So we understand when Jesus said to baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, he wasn't talking about what to say when we water baptized him. 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:26.799 There's deeper, more symbolic meaning to this. 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:32.799 The subject at hand was in the light of all the authority and power that he had been given that we would go. 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:34.000 That we would go. 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:35.519 It's a commission. 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:38.799 You've heard it said as the Great Commission. 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:52.320 Well, I believe Jesus is referring to a discipleship process that is focused on submerging someone into all that God is, all that he has, and all that is his will for our life. 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:55.200 And that's really what we're going to talk about today. 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:57.759 The brief recap. 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:00.240 We talked about what baptism means. 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:04.399 We talked about what the word in my name means. 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:06.159 And here's a summary of it. 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:23.840 Okay, so to be baptized in the name means, let's just say this, to be baptized in the name of Jesus means to be fully immersed, submerged under and firmly fixed into Jesus' very own character and nature. 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:41.759 So when you put all of those things together from the from the Hebrew and the Greek there that we studied out, to baptize in the name means to be fully immersed, submerged under and firmly fixed into Jesus' very own authority, character, and nature. 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:45.679 That's what in my name means when he said that. 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:50.080 So then you just take Jesus out and put in the Father, insert the Holy Spirit. 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:55.200 It means the same thing, but into the Father, into the Son, into the Holy Spirit. 00:13:55.840 --> 00:14:03.679 So today what we're going to talk about is in the name of the Father. 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:07.039 Again, he gave those very specific things. 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:08.399 He separated them. 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:14.159 He said, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:18.960 So there's a reason that he separated God, if you will, into three parts. 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:20.559 We know that as the Trinity. 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:26.159 We believe we even see that in Genesis when God said, Let us make man in our image. 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:28.320 We're going to look at that here in a minute. 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:31.919 But we see that it's one God, three parts. 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.320 Let me say, or one God, three roles. 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:36.480 Father, Son, Holy Spirit. 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:39.279 They're all God. 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:40.240 Son is God. 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:41.519 The Holy Spirit is God. 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:47.600 But they have different roles, different functions in and through our lives and in the earth. 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:53.679 So here's, let's let me break this down. 00:14:53.919 --> 00:15:02.240 Father is identity, origin, order, love, belief, repentance. 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:03.600 It's personal. 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:05.200 Say it's personal. 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:21.759 The Son, Jesus, is acceptance, forgiveness, imputed righteousness, the word, truth, it's grafting into family, it's salvation, it's new life, it's discipleship, it's positional. 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:23.360 Say positional. 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:34.559 The Holy Spirit is power, purpose, health, nurture, emotional health, security, fruit of the Spirit, gifts of the Spirit. 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:37.039 It's powerful, say powerful. 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:41.919 So the Father is about identity, the Son is about acceptance, and the Holy Spirit is about power. 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:45.919 So it's personal, it's positional, and it's powerful. 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:50.159 That is the baptism in the name that we're going to be talking about. 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:52.159 This week we're talking about in the name of the Father. 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:54.399 Next week we'll talk about in the name of the Son. 00:15:54.559 --> 00:16:00.960 And then on Easter Sunday, we'll talk about in the name of the Holy Spirit and what that means. 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:03.519 I believe this is a discipleship model. 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:05.120 Let me even say it like this. 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:09.120 I believe this is a therapeutic discipleship model. 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:14.080 I believe this is a model for freedom and deliverance ministry. 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:17.279 I don't think there's like something separate. 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:26.799 Like making disciples is leading people into all that Jesus did, all that Jesus said, all that Jesus has, all that is his will. 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:28.000 That includes freedom. 00:16:28.159 --> 00:16:29.919 That includes forgiveness and salvation. 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:30.960 That includes healing. 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:32.240 That includes deliverance. 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:34.720 That includes all of those things. 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:39.679 It's a therapeutic model of discipleship. 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:44.159 I believe that as we walk through these, I believe some of you are going to get delivered. 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:45.279 You're going to get healed. 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:50.159 You're going to get set free from things that have had you bound for a long time. 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:51.120 Amen. 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:59.200 Baptism into the Father is focused on the person that you are. 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:04.240 Baptism into the Son is focused on the position that you occupy. 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:09.359 And baptism in the Holy Spirit is focused on the power that you have. 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:12.160 So what does this look like? 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:21.039 God exists as a family, and becoming a disciple is at its core a baptism into the family of God. 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:24.000 So let's talk about Father. 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:28.240 I said that that's identity, and then I listed some of those things that that includes. 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:34.319 Okay, it's origin, it's order, it's love, it's belief, it's repentance. 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:39.440 It's essentially a baptism into your origin story. 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:42.319 How many of you like a good origin story? 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:48.400 It's a baptism into your origin story. 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:53.599 You can't accurately know who you are until you know whose you are. 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:01.839 You can't accurately find where you're going without knowing where you came from. 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:10.720 This is where becoming a disciple starts with personal belief and identity. 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:22.640 It's a baptism into the Father where we learn who we are, what we are, why we exist, and what our purpose is. 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:25.599 It's vital to our flourishing and thriving. 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:28.640 This is where we find answers to the questions like who am I? 00:18:28.799 --> 00:18:29.920 Where did I come from? 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:31.119 Why do I exist? 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:32.319 Am I loved? 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:33.680 Am I valued? 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:35.279 Do I have worth? 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:38.480 This is where we find the answers to those questions. 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:51.119 Have you know that's that's that's that's probably most of the reasons people are traumatized and have soul wounds and issues and are in counseling. 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:52.559 It's those things. 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:56.000 This is this is a model that could put counselors out of business. 00:18:56.079 --> 00:18:57.119 And I am a counselor. 00:18:57.359 --> 00:19:08.799 I'm a licensed Christian counselor, and I would love to be put out of business because we just make disciples and they're just all the trauma, all the issues, all the freedom, all the healing, all the deliverance, like it's gone. 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:18.640 And and they're flourishing and thriving and living the abundant life that Jesus died and was buried and raised from the dead so that we could have access to. 00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:19.680 Amen. 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:23.119 Genesis 1.26. 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:24.480 This is our origin story. 00:19:24.559 --> 00:19:27.839 Listen, read Genesis chapter 1, 2, and 3. 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:33.359 Read it, know it, read it all the time, read it over and over and over again. 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:36.079 It is your Genesis story. 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:41.519 It will bring so much truth and so much healing into your life. 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:44.319 We got to be baptized into this. 00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:53.200 And then God said, Let us make human beings in our image to be like us. 00:19:56.559 --> 00:20:05.200 They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on earth, and all the small animals that scurry along the ground. 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:08.480 So God created human beings in his own image. 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:13.599 In the image of God, he created them, male and female, he created them. 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:14.799 Now, listen to me. 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:21.519 God's saying to himself, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, family, let's procreate. 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:24.079 Let's have some kids. 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:28.319 Let's make man and woman. 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:31.839 Let's make mankind in our image. 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:35.680 He didn't say that about the fish, he didn't say that about the birds. 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:37.119 He didn't say that about the animals. 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:40.559 He didn't say that about the animals that scurry along the ground. 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:42.799 He said, No, we're gonna make man. 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:55.519 We create, he created all this stuff, he made all this stuff, and then he says, We're gonna make man in our image to be like us, and they will rule over all the other created things. 00:20:57.039 --> 00:21:12.079 That's why I believe one of the ways you can tell that someone is influenced or maybe even completely controlled by demons is that his goal is to make them look like, act like animals. 00:21:13.279 --> 00:21:15.359 It's one of the distinguishing factors. 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:20.960 The distinguishing factor of a human being from animals is that we're made in the image of God. 00:21:21.119 --> 00:21:28.559 And so if you look at every sin that you can get in bondage to, it always leads to making us act like animals. 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:32.160 Unthinking animals is what the Bible calls it. 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:33.839 Like unthinking animals. 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:38.319 They did whatever sinful, degrading thing that they desired. 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:39.200 Right? 00:21:39.599 --> 00:21:42.079 Talks about all of those things. 00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:47.039 Trading the image of God, the truth of God for a lie. 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:52.000 Made to look like the things He created, the animals. 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:53.759 Right? 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:59.759 It's one of those things which if it's if it looks animalistic, it's because it is. 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:12.079 And I think that one of the things Satan is trying to do is take the glory, the crown jewel of God's creation, and reduce it to an animal. 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:14.559 An unthinking animal. 00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:22.079 You gotta be baptized into this origin. 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:29.440 You have to know whose you are and where you came from and what you were created to be and do. 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:34.079 It's a baptism into the name of the Father. 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:41.359 All that the Father is, all of his character, his nature, and his authority. 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:56.960 Genesis 2, 7 says, the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground, and he breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person. 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:01.039 That was something the animals did not get. 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:09.279 I say it like this: God created some things, and other things he made. 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:15.680 So existence, our very existence, comes from the Father. 00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:20.079 Identity comes from the Father. 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:25.599 Love, worth, and value comes from the Father. 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:34.559 And if you disconnect yourself from these truths and from these things, you're gonna have issues in all of those areas. 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:46.720 You're gonna have identity issues, you're gonna have love issues, you're gonna have self-image issues, you're gonna have worth and value issues if you're detached from what it means to be in the name of the Father. 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:51.440 You came from the Father. 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:56.319 You were not just created by God, you were made from God. 00:23:57.119 --> 00:23:58.079 Listen to that. 00:23:58.240 --> 00:23:59.119 That's important. 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:06.559 You were not just created by God like all the rest of the earth and the animals and the trees and the fish. 00:24:06.799 --> 00:24:08.880 You weren't just created by God. 00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:11.920 You were made from God. 00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:16.480 There's a huge difference, a huge difference. 00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:24.240 And the difference is important because it determines our ultimate destination. 00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:35.519 God created the heavens and the earth, and then it introduces another element of creation where it says He made things from what He created. 00:24:36.319 --> 00:24:40.640 So He began to speak to the sea to bring forth fish. 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:47.599 He began to speak to the earth to bring forth plants and seed-bearing trees and all of those things. 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:53.279 So he created stuff and then he made stuff from the stuff that he created. 00:24:55.119 --> 00:25:00.000 Some things were created from nothing, and others were made from what was created. 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:03.680 Some things God created and some things God made. 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:14.000 Something that's made comes from the thing that made it, is sustained by the thing that made it, and then goes back to the thing that made it when it dies. 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:18.240 So think about that in the natural, right? 00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:18.960 A tree. 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:26.160 A tree comes from the earth, is sustained by the earth, and goes back into the earth when it dies. 00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:27.440 Right? 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:40.559 A fish comes from the sea or the lake or the pond, the river, is sustained by the river and goes back into the river when it dies, right? 00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:45.359 Animals come from the earth. 00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:47.200 They're sustained by the earth. 00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:50.799 They go back into the earth when they die. 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:53.920 You came from God. 00:25:56.079 --> 00:25:59.599 Your spirit and your soul came from God. 00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:04.720 It's made from Him in His image, male and female. 00:26:05.519 --> 00:26:12.640 You came from God, you are sustained by God, and when you die, you're going back to God. 00:26:13.839 --> 00:26:18.880 It matters where you came from because that's where you're going. 00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:22.640 And if you don't know where you came from, you won't know where you're going. 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:28.799 You won't know what to do with your life on earth if you don't know where you came from. 00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:33.680 If you don't know who you are and whose you are, it's massively important. 00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:37.839 This baptism into the name of the Father is a big deal. 00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:45.200 It's not just language, it's a whole process that we have to live out. 00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:48.079 That we submerge. 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:53.599 Remember the word baptized means to overwhelm, to submerge, to be under. 00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:56.079 Immersion. 00:26:58.079 --> 00:27:01.519 We need to be immersed into the name of the Father. 00:27:01.759 --> 00:27:02.400 Amen. 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:08.079 So that our identity is based on truth. 00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:11.759 Our His love permeates our being. 00:27:12.480 --> 00:27:16.720 So He created our so He made our soul and our spirit, right? 00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:17.759 He breathed it. 00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:21.200 And then He made our physical bodies from what? 00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:22.559 From the earth. 00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:25.279 And what is our physical body sustained by? 00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:27.759 And where is it going to go when we die? 00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:29.200 Back to the earth. 00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:32.079 But not your soul and not your spirit. 00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:42.240 When it says that he breathed and that man became a living being, that is something completely different than what the animals got and what the birds got and what the fish got. 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:43.759 Completely different. 00:27:43.839 --> 00:27:45.119 They don't have that. 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:46.960 Sorry to tell you that. 00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:49.759 Your precious little puppy or cat. 00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:51.039 You know. 00:27:53.759 --> 00:27:56.079 They don't have a soul or a spirit. 00:27:56.400 --> 00:27:58.960 So listen to me, I'm going to shift gears here. 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:11.200 Even in the natural family unit, we know psychologically that a mother and a father have unique roles that they play in the development of a human being. 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:16.240 In the physical development, the sociological development, the psychological development. 00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:20.400 The role of father has very specific things that it accomplishes. 00:28:20.559 --> 00:28:24.319 The role of mother has very specific things that it accomplishes. 00:28:24.640 --> 00:28:26.160 And those things matter. 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:29.599 That's why the nuclear biblical family matters. 00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:31.200 It matters. 00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:45.039 So we see this in psychology that a mother and a father have very different, distinct, and vital roles and contributions in the life, development, and health of a child. 00:28:45.359 --> 00:29:04.480 In general, we get our sense of well-being, emotional stability, nurture, sensitivity, mood regulation, how you handle stress, how you approach relationships, conscious inner self-talk and thoughts from your mom. 00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:11.680 That primarily, not exclusively, but primarily is a deposit from the mom. 00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:12.960 Good or bad? 00:29:13.279 --> 00:29:14.640 Good or bad. 00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:24.319 If your mom was calm and responsive and engaged and nurturing and involved and present, you're more likely to feel emotionally stable. 00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:34.880 If she was over-emotional, emotionally unstable, inconsistent, distant, you may struggle with emotional health issues, anxiety, or trust. 00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:41.759 We'll talk more in depth about that on Easter when we talk about in the name of the Holy Spirit. 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:54.559 Likewise, in the world of psychology, it's observed that in general we get our identity, self-worth, sense of confidence, and healthy self-image from our father. 00:29:55.440 --> 00:30:01.920 So what I see and what we see as pastors and counselors who deal with people's issues, problems, and dysfunction is interesting. 00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:05.920 Someone who had father issues generally struggles in the area of identity. 00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:10.240 And those with mother issues generally struggle with emotional health. 00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:17.839 And if you had both of those issues with parents, unfortunately, your struggle in all those areas. 00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:23.759 But, but be of good cheer. 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:26.960 Take hope. 00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:29.920 God has an answer for it. 00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:30.880 Amen. 00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:33.920 God has an answer for it. 00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:40.079 It's called be baptized in the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, and in the name of the Holy Spirit. 00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:46.880 And it will supersede and transcend every single father and mother issue you may have had. 00:30:47.039 --> 00:30:56.319 Every bad thing that happened to you in your life, every good thing that didn't happen to you in the formation of your life, there is a remedy. 00:30:56.640 --> 00:30:57.279 Amen? 00:30:58.559 --> 00:31:00.160 Be baptized. 00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:20.079 I believe one of the greatest crises that we have in our country is largely an identity crisis, which is largely due to fatherlessness and irresponsible, unhealthy men who have children. 00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:37.680 After his baptism, Jesus came up out of the water, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and settling on him. 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:45.920 And a voice from heaven said, This is my dearly loved Son who brings me great joy. 00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:58.400 Now this is a rare picture, amazing picture in the baptism of Jesus, where we see all in one place on earth the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:10.799 And the Father's voice comes over the PA system of heaven, and he leans over the balcony of heaven and he says, That's my boy, in whom I am well pleased. 00:32:11.359 --> 00:32:12.480 What is that? 00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:15.359 Identity and affirmation. 00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:17.839 That's what comes from the Father. 00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:24.160 And if you don't have that, you have an identity crisis and a value and a worth deficit. 00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:28.160 And you cannot flourish and thrive in life with that. 00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:29.039 You can't. 00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:34.240 It's handicapping, it's crippling, but it's something that Jesus came to fix. 00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:35.119 Amen. 00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:37.359 It's part of the gospel. 00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:40.240 Matthew 17, 5. 00:32:41.200 --> 00:33:05.200 This is another occasion where Jesus, we know this as the uh when Jesus transcended the transfiguration on the mountain, and he appeared, it says in verse 5, but even as he spoke, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, This is my dearly loved son who brings me great joy. 00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:06.720 Listen to him. 00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:16.640 Now you have a second time that God audibly spoke from heaven, and other human beings heard it and saw the manifestation. 00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:18.240 And what did he say? 00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:27.279 Identity and affirmation, worth, value, significance, legitimacy. 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:32.480 This is my son in whom I am well pleased, who brings me great joy. 00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:35.119 And then he's like this listen to him. 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:46.559 Peter and John were there that day, and Peter was so excited, he's like, Moses and Elijah were there too, which is crazy. 00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:48.160 Read that story, it's amazing. 00:33:48.559 --> 00:33:50.319 Moses and Elijah were there. 00:33:51.519 --> 00:34:02.400 And Jesus and James and John and God shows up, not uh uh Peter and John, and God shows up, and again, the father speaks affirmation and identity. 00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:03.440 Love it. 00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:17.119 This is such an amazing baptism because it literally has the power to transcend and heal every single father wound, every identity issue, every single insecurity and inadequacy that you have. 00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:31.760 It's a baptism of identity and absolute assurance that you know who you are, that you know whose you are, and that you are a beloved son or daughter of Father Creator God. 00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:41.599 John 17. 00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:48.239 Now, I only pulled an excerpt of this out because there's so much. 00:34:48.480 --> 00:34:49.280 I just want to tell you this. 00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:51.199 Read Genesis 1, 2, and 3. 00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:53.280 Read John, the book of John. 00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:58.079 John had special revelation into this thing. 00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:03.440 This concept of in the name, this concept of in and abiding. 00:35:03.679 --> 00:35:05.280 John had special revelation. 00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:08.000 So much of his book and also 1 John. 00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:12.239 Uh, so the Gospel of John and then 1 John, they start out the same. 00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:15.119 In the beginning, God created origin. 00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:20.320 And then all throughout John, this is actually an excerpt from a prayer of Jesus. 00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:23.199 I would encourage you to go back and read the whole chapter as a prayer. 00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:28.960 And in the prayer and in the teachings of Jesus, he echoes this all the time. 00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:37.280 One of the things I love about this series is it's teaching us things that we will begin to see all throughout Scripture when you read the Bible. 00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:39.760 And you'll go, oh, I know what that means. 00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:41.440 That's significant. 00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:43.599 Listen to this. 00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:47.199 They do not belong to this world any more than I do. 00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:54.000 Speaking of the disciples, he's praying to God out loud in front of the disciples, and he's talking about them to God. 00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:57.519 Make them holy by your truth. 00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:01.840 Teach them your word, which is truth. 00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:08.559 Just as you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world. 00:36:09.199 --> 00:36:15.280 So what is the Father sent Jesus, and he's saying, Just as you sent me, I am sending them. 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:15.840 Was that? 00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:16.960 That's authority. 00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:18.239 Passed down. 00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:21.760 Submission to authority, passed down. 00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:30.800 And I give myself as a holy sacrifice for them so that they can be made holy by your truth. 00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:39.039 I am praying not only for these disciples, but for all who will ever believe in me through their message. 00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:43.039 So who's it up to? 00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:46.559 Who's the salvation of the whole world? 00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:51.119 All who will ever believe after this prayer was prayed, who's it up to? 00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:52.800 Those who go. 00:36:56.079 --> 00:36:57.280 Listen to what he says. 00:36:57.519 --> 00:37:08.559 I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one, as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. 00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:14.000