Series: Recovering Stolen Identity & Reclaiming Misplaced Destiny: Part 3a: Difference B/W Predestination (Fate) & Free Will – The Cost Of Destiny

SERIES: RECOVERING STOLEN IDENTITY & RECLAIMING MISPLACED DESTINY: PART 3A: DIFFERENCE B/W PREDESTINATION (FATE) & FREE WILL – THE COST OF DESTINY. Genesis 12:1-20: 1 Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family and from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you. 2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” 4 So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan. 6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth (oak) tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land. 7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. 8 And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord. 9 So Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South. 10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land. 11 And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Indeed I know that you are a woman of beautiful countenance. 12 Therefore it will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live. 13 Please say you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that I may live because of you.” 14 So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful. 15 The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s house. 16 He treated Abram well for her sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels. 17 But the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 18 And Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’? I might have taken her as my wife. Now therefore, here is your wife; take her and go your way.” 20 So Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had.

INTRO: RECOVERING STOLEN IDENTITY & RECLAIMING MISPLACED DESTINY: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PREDESTINATION (FATE) & FREE WILL – THE COST OF DESTINY

Series: Recovering Your Stolen Identity & Reclaiming Your Misplaced Destiny. 1) The Introduction: Difference B/W Identity & Destiny. 2) Significance of Destiny Helpers. 3) How To Lose Your Identity (Don’t Sell Your Birthright) (A & B). 4) The Difference Between Predestination (Fate) And Free Will – The Cost Of Destiny.

IDENTITY THEFT IN THE REAL WORLD.

1. Secular Identity Theft: Deceitful / unauthorized use of a person's private info for gains.

2. Spiritual Identity Theft: When Satan distorts the image of God in us that leads to destiny.

ABOUT STOLEN IDENTITY AND MISPLACED DESTINY AMONG GOD’S PEOPLE.

1. Identity: Answers The Question: ‘Who has God called you to be?’

2. Destiny: Answers The Question: ‘What has God called you to do?’

3. Summary: So Our Identity Leads To Our Destiny. Without knowing who you are, you cannot reach your destiny. You must say “yes” to God – accept Him as Lord and Savior. Or you will definitely not know where you are headed.

ESAU’S BIRTHRIGHT - THE SEVEN BLESSINGS OF ABRAHAM (GENESIS 12:1-3)

1. Blessing 1 (Gen. 12:1 ........ Unto A Land That I Will Shew Thee).

2. Blessing 2 (Gen. 12:2 ……. And I Will Make Of Thee A Great Nation...)

3. Blessing 3 (Gen. 12:2 ....... And I Will Bless Thee.)

4. Blessing 4 (Gen. 12:2 ....... And Make Thy Name Great.)