Taking The D.n.a. Test: What’s In The Blood

II. Your name is something based on what it is. Titles with names represent functions. My name is Sean, but my daughters don’t call me Sean, they call me daddy or daaa; that’s my function in their lives. We call God ”Lord" that title speaks to His function in our lives. When we declare that His name is great, though, we’re referring to His person, not His function. When we talk about the name of God, we’re talking about His identity and by extension our own, since we are members of the family that carries His name.

A. When you were born into your earthly family, you became, for better or worse, identified with them. You were so-and-so's daughter, or what’s-his-name’s son. The identity I want to talk about to you about, is your identity as a part of God’s family. When we are born again, we take on His nature and name. But because we haven't figured out who we are in God through Jesus Christ, many of us don’t live powerful, Spirit-led lives. We don’t know our spiritual identity and are still searching. We have a whole world full of people trying to “find themselves." I want to tell you that you were "found” when you came to Christ! 2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

1. Now, this is going to adjust your theology if you’ve been trained up in religiosity and not relationship. Religious people don’t understand the Bible. They think that Jesus came only to show us who God is. That’s part of it, but there’s more. Before Jesus even came to earth, God had shown Himself to a lot of people.

a. He spoke to Noah about a flood, He walked with Enoch, showed himself to Moses in a burning bush, to the children of Israel in a pillar smoke and fire, to Nebecunezzar with the hand writing on the wall, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the midst of a burning furnace, and I am such scratching the surface.

b. Jesus didn’t come just to show you who God was; Jesus came to show you who you were. He came to show you who you were so you wouldn’t take somebody else’s word on the subject. If you don’t know who you are, you’ll take the devil’s word on it, and …he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

2. The Psalmist said, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: God has made you to have dominion in the earth, but when you don’t know who you are; whatever you come up with to define yourself is usually wrong.

a. If you go to yourself to find yourself, and you’re lost, how are you going to have the answers? You're lost because you don’t have the answers in the first place! If you go talk to a psychologist who doesn’t know who you are in Christ, all he can tell you is dysfunctional psycho-babble and worldly labels. If you’re lost and he’s lost, where do you think you’re going to end up? That’s a classic case of what the Bible calls “the blind leading the blind; where both fall into a ditch”. The only answer is to take your broken self back to your Creator and let Him you what He made you to be.