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I have another dad joke for you this morning to kick off today’s topic.
Someone once said, “I am very upset with my mom.
When I was growing up she told me, ‘You can be whoever you want to be.’ That’s not true.
Turns out Identity Theft is a crime!”
Today we are starting a new series called “Identity”.
We live in a world that tries to confuse our identity every single day.
-We are told that we shouldn’t think about others in terms of race or color, and in the same breath told that we should feel guilty about our race.
It doesn’t even matter what race you are, the world tells you to feel bad about it.
-The world wants you to believe that your gender is the problem.
You need to stop acting like a man!
Enough with the macho mindset.
Stop acting like a woman!
Be more like a man.
In fact, you should all swap.
Men to women, women to men.
It’s not science, it’s assignment.
-This world even tries to confuse the identity of our enemy.
Tells you that a certain person or a certain group of people are the bad guys, not Satan!
He can’t be real!
-It confuses the identity of our friend and savior.
The world says Jesus can’t be real.
He can’t be the WAY, TRUTH, and LIFE because there are many ways, everyone’s truth is different, and your life can be whatever YOU want it to be.
YOU can do it without anyone else.
YOU don’t need a savior.
-Another “Identity Crisis” we face is the attack by our adversary.
Our true enemy wants us to believe that we will never be good enough.
Never be pretty enough.
Always be a loser.
Always mess up.
Always fail.
Never be loved.
God especially, could never love us because of...
Your identity faces an attack on a daily basis.
The adversary swaps truth with lies and want’s you to believe things God would never say about you.
Feel bad about who you are.
Don’t be the person you were created to be, instead become something else.
Your enemy is your friend and your friend is your enemy.
God could never love someone like you.
What happens when we face these lies every day is that we start to believe them.
Even if we don’t believe them we start letting them affect our decision making.
We begin seeing another person as our enemy instead of someone who God loves just like me and wants to have a relationship with.
We start to feel guilt and shame for who we are.
Like there must have been a mistake when I was born and maybe I was supposed to be someone else.
It’s just another disgusting lie!
We hear these lies and feel ugly inside and out.
Then we see a pimple in the mirror!
CONFIRMED!
I AM UGLY!
Now that everyone in the world carries a computer and camera in their pocket the phenomenon known as a “selfie” has stormed the internet!
Does anyone in here take selfies?
According to an article written in 2015, in a survey from “Luster Premium White”, a teeth whitening brand based in Boston, the average millennial could take up to about 25,700 selfies in his or her lifetime.
An article written in 2019, just 4 years later, claims that Google reports that its Android devices take 93 million selfies per day, and in one poll, 18-24 year-olds reported that every third photo they take is a selfie.
Some subjects reported taking more than 8 selfies per day.
I have a hard time even wrapping my head around these numbers.
I did the math and if a person got a phone at 15 and took 8 selfies per day for the majority of their life they would take almost 200,000 selfies in their lifetime!
When I was a kid I thought my parents took too many pictures of me and you could fit all of those into 2 large photo albums.
With numbers this big, it is clear that we are facing an identity crisis.
A psychological study in 2015 showed that it doesn’t matter whether you just take a selfie and post it or if you take 10, pick the best one, photo-shop it, touch it up, and enhance it before you post it.
Posting selfies on social media increases anxiety, decreases confidence, and makes people feel less attractive.
They concluded there was no evidence of a positive psychological effect of selfie posting.
Before we dive into the study this morning I want to play a short video for you.
In this video, some teenagers share their selfie habits and why they take them.
Let’s watch...
*Video: Elevation - Death to selfie - Confessions of a Teenager
We started out in the deep end of the pool today, so let me tell you another cheesy joke: A guy went to a psychiatrist because he was having an identity crisis.
“Some days I feel like a teepee” he says.
“Then other days I feel like a wigwam.
I don’t know which one is true.
One day, tee pee!
The next, wigwam!
Teepee!
Wigwam!
Teepee!
Wigwam!
Teepee!
Wigwam!”
The psychiatrist yells, “Get a grip, man!
You’re too tense!”
Faced with such a crisis in Identity, how do we find our true selves?
How do we let go of who we pretend to be and take hold of who God says we are/who God has created us to be?
If you have your bibles, go ahead and turn to Genesis 25.
Today we are going to look at Jacob.
Jacob was a wrestler.
When Jacob was still in his mother’s womb he wrestled with his twin brother, Esau.
Throughout his life Jacob wrestled with his family, his identity, and even with God.
Just like Jacob, we often find ourselves wrestling with who we think we’re supposed to be and who we really are.
Today we are going to talk about 4 key thoughts that are important to realize in order to find our true selves and giving up my fake identity...
GETTING RID OF MY FAKE ID:
ME FIRST IS MISERABLE.
We live in a “me first” world.
Now-a-days when a new product comes out you just download it or pre-order it on Amazon.
When I was in college we still bought things in stores.
There was a popular video game at the time that had it’s own books, games, action figures, and now it even has some movies.
At the time I had read all of the books and me and my cousin would sit and come up with theories about why things were the way they were in that universe and predictions about what might happen in the future.
When they came out with the second video game it was the most anticipated video game releases of all time.
I remember going to Walmart that night and waiting in line until they were allowed to sell it at midnight.
Everyone wanted to get it first!
We live in a “me first” culture.
Subconsciously, we all strive to be recognized to some degree.
Strive to portray a certain identity.
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