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*Our ID*
*/Matthew 3:1-17 (13-17)/*
/Theme: God gives us the new identity in Jesus of loved child and delightful servants./
/Image: ID/
*Introduction: ID*
A. “May I see your ID, please?”
1.
What are you picturing?
a.
Where are you?
*Ask*
b. Who is asking you? *Ask*
c. Airport security, border guard, store clerk
d.
Along side the road with a policeman at your window?
2.
What are you saying?
a. Name
b. Giving a reason or an excuse
3.
What are you doing?
a. Reaching for your wallet or purse
b. Pulling out laminated cards—*Do this*
4.
Is this our identity?
B. ID Bracelet
1.
Does anyone remember ID bracelets?
2.
Do young couples still give them to each other?
3.
What is the purpose of these?
a.
A gift of love
b.
A developing relationship
C. Today, I want to look at our identity.
We start with our identity in the light of *Matthew 3—Read *
\\ *I. **Seeing Our New ID in Jesus and the Spirit (v.
13-16)*
*A. **We Come*
*1. *John starts off calling for repentance because our identities are divided
*a. *To repent is to realize that something is wrong
*b.
*It is a call for help, change
*2. *In Jesus’ time there were plenty of programs for help
*a.
*The Pharisees promoted a program of righteousness and revolt
*(1) *Keep the Law
*(2) *Keep out the Romans
*(3) *And keep to our own
*(4) *They were separatists
*b. *The Sadducess promoted accommodation
*(1) *Keep the Temple worship
*(2) *Keep peace with the Romans
*(3) *Keep power
*c.
*Neither was producing fruit, God’s blessings for the nations
*d. *Even John was unclear about the program
*(1) *He knew change was coming
*(2) *He looked for God to judge evil and bring something new
*(3) *He knew he was inadequate
*3. *My former colleague, Syd Hielema, talks about the radio messages we get which confuse our identity
*a. *The messages tell us we are inadequate and sell us their solution
*b. *Think of ads
*(1) *You are what you eat.
Here is our diet plan
*(2) *You are what you drive.
A Hummer will make you a real woman or a real man
*(3) *You are what you look and smell like.
Buy these cosmetics and this body spray
*c. *Think of our messages we struggle with
*(1) *You are identified by your ethnic group.
If you are not the dominate one, you do not fit
*(2) *You are your economic status
*(3) *You are your denomination, your political party, your national citizenship
*4. *We are told how we are, but we often do not know who we are
*a.
*We feel inadequate.
We feel like we do not fit.
*b. *We know there is something wrong
*c.
*We do not know how to fix it
\\ *B. **Jesus Comes*
*1. *The translation loses the dynamism of the passage
*a. *The original is present tense
*b. *We are to see Jesus’ coming
*c.
*We are to see him coming closer and closer to us—from Galilee to the Jordan to John to us
*2. *Jesus unites with us in our need
*a. *He says it is proper for us to do this
*b.
*The first step is to acknowledge our inadequacies, our struggles, our need
*c. *Here Jesus meets us
*3. *Then we can let go
*a.
*That is what the end of verse 15 literally means
*b. *John let go
*(1) *He let go of his inadequacies and own agenda
*(2) *He let Jesus act
*c. *Interestingly, the same word as “let go” also mean “forgiveness”
*C. **The Spirit Comes*
*1. *Not only are we to see Jesus coming, we are to see the Spirit coming
*a.
*The heavens open
*b. *God is opening his world to us
*c. *In a special way God is addressing his world
*2.
*The Spirit is the agent of God’s new beginnings
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