I have started attending a men’s group every Thursday morning and I’m going to start sharing the message for you guys just to try and revive this thread. There’s so much negativity out there and I’d love to be able to offer you guys positivity through the Word of God and hopefully make a impact on your day. Have a blessed day everyone!
Today’s message was about your personal identity, meaning what you identify yourself and relate with, and what that looks like as a Christian.
Ephesians 2:1-5
2 1 And 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.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)
So, with this passage we’re looking at what Paul has to say about us as mankind. He gives us some hard truths here, the first of which is that we are “dead” in our sinful nature. All of us are broken and imperfect, consumed with a hole that we try to fill with everything of this world: women, money, materialistic possessions. We have been separated by God by sin, and we cannot fill the God-sized hole.
But the second truth here is that even with all of our flaws, our sins, God still loved us without us having to earn that love, and gave us a way to come back to His grace through Jesus Christ and the Crucifixion.
This is our identity as Christians. That we are imperfect sinners, but we have a Heavenly Father that loves us with such intensity that he saved us even before we knew what we needed to be saved from.