A Christian teaching on identity argues that your body, circumstances, and others' opinions can't reveal who you truly are. The real battle happens in your mind, where false beliefs act as spiritual strongholds. The Bible serves as the true mirror to understand your godlike spirit, not your address or situation.
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Because all the physical mirror.
It says mirror, right? Just forget it. That's what it says.
The first, the physical mirror can only.
Reflect your physical body.
And you are much more than your physical body. So you'll never figure out who you are looking in the physical mirror.
You actually, you'll never know the part of you that is great by looking.
In the physical mirror.
Because all the physical mirror can reflect to you is your body, which is only one still stored. Your experiences may have been bad, it's still stored. The environment you were raised in may have been very toxic and totally different, dysfunctional and utterly abnormal, but it's still stored.
And because it's all still there, you cannot get rid of it. It is there at a subconscious level.
Sometimes unwillingly, things.
Trigger or bring back.
Something you would rather forget.
That makes sense. That's the soulish realm.
That's the arena of spiritual warfare, according to Paul.
He says the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Where are the strongholds? He said, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. So whatever is going on in your mind, that's contradicting the knowledge of God. That is fundamentally a spiritual stronghold. And you know, strongholds, they're not built overnight.
They start with a suggestion.
The suggestion, if entertained, becomes a scenario.
And the scenario, if viewed long enough, becomes a stronghold.
Now you have a belief in your mind that is contrary to the knowledge of God. And this is all happening in your soulish realm. That's the battle, the battle for the mind. And that's why in fact, you know, salvation is not a one time experience. You know, there's a process involved that transformation is the result of renewing your mind. Oh, I really want to talk about renewing the mind. And it's very, very important. I might do it tomorrow night.
With the soul you are self conscious, but with the spirit.
You are God conscious.
And it is your spiritual essence that.
Connects you to.
The limitless, the boundless realm of God.
Your body was formed by a biological.
Process.
And the state of your soul was formed by a sociological process. But your spirit was created by God.
And it is at that level that you are godlike.
It is that part of you that's God.
See, when we tell people that they are godlike, they straightaway start looking in the wrong mirror.
So you can hear.
That you're godlike all day. You can say you're the people could tell you the image and the Likeness of God all day. But you're checking in with the wrong mirror. Can I give you the three mirrors you must not look in to find out who you are.
The first mirror that can never tell you who you are is the physical mirror. Part of you and your body is the smallest part of you. It's the house in which spirit and soul are living. So you see a house, you know it's just a house until you meet the occupants.
Wrong mirror. You'll never figure out who you are by looking in that mirror. Are you ready for the next mirror? Circumstance.
Okay, that's exactly what it says. If you look in the mirror of.
Circumstance.
What is your circumstance?
Exactly what it says.
Right.
If you look in the mirror of.
Circumstance, what is your circumstance? The circumstance is the circle in which you are standing. So you're going to look at your health, you're going to look at your wealth, you're going to look at all of these features of your life to figure out who you are. Wrong mirror. Because where you are in life doesn't tell anyone who you are in life.
Oh, I need to say that again.
Where you are right now doesn't tell me who you are.
Blessed people go through bad places.
And some of God's best have had seasons in prison.
And if you were to look at Joseph in prison and try to figure out from his circumstance who he is, you would have made a mistake.
Blessed people have been in lions dens. Blessed people have been in fiery furnaces. Blessed people have wandered through wildernesses. Blessed people have even been hung on an old rugged cross between two thieves. But you can't look at the circumstance to determine who the person is. And you must never allow your.
Circumstance to define you, only to refine you.
My circumstances must refine me, but they must never define me.
That was good.
Do not confuse your identity with your address.
My address is where I am.
My identity is who I am.
Wrong mirror. Third wrong mirror. We look into. It's called other people's opinions.
Okay?
That's the wrong.
You know, when God tells you that.
You'Re his image and his likeness, don't look for. For confirmation to the left or to the right.
Because half of those people are miseducated, misinformed, and competing with you.
They've embraced doctrines of scarcity and feel like if you're winning, they're losing. And they feel like they can get up by pulling you down.
And so you get critics, you get haters. You know, you get detractors.
The minute you start trying to do something it's their opinions. Now I kind of could spend two hours on the opinion thing because I think that's it's important but I'm not going to spend two hours on it.
Your opinion of me is not the truth of me because your knowledge of me is limited.
You don't know me and I don't know you. So whatever opinion I have of you is probably wrong.
So if you're going to know yourself.
You don't look in those mirrors. There's one mirror you need to look into that is the Word. The Word. I'm going to put the word right up here again.
The Bible tells you who you really are.
And the sooner you know who you really are.
Rejecting the body image information, rejecting the circumstantial information, rejecting the opinions of others information and embracing who you really are.
You are now stepping into a new level of consciousness and you are now able to think thoughts that other people do not think.
