Summary
Passage – Luke 12:32
What do you fear?
1. Lack of significance (where do I get meaning?)
2. Lack of security (our lives caught up with the future and worried about the future)
3. Lack of sufficiency (will I have enough?)
Jesus spends much of Luke talking about possessions and what we fear.
This verse asks two important questions that shape our journey, and the real issue we have is answering them:
I. Who am I?
ii. Whose am I?
I. Who am I? (Identity)
A lot of us are still stuck, like teenagers, on the identity phase. We ask questions like “where do I live” and “what car do I drive?” and “what job do I have?” to determine identity.
The heart of finding identity security is in what Jesus said to us. Identity defines behaviour.
A. I am a prized lamb.
B. I am a precious child.
Jesus says you are God’s child, by birth and by adoption.
C. I am a privileged citizen of the kingdom of God.
II. Whose am I? (Belonging)
A. God is a good shepherd (Psalm 23)
B. God is a good father who cares (If we have known Jesus we have known the Father)
C. God is a king— the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
What Have I been gladly given?
1. The Kingdom (Romans 14:17) God’s gift and His reign
a. righteousness (the righteousness of Christ)
b. peace (a peace that passes understanding)
c. joy in the Holy Spirit (the greatest apologetic of a Christian is a life characterized by joy)
How shall I then live?
1. With generosity because we have security in Christ
2. By faith
3. With hope.
About the Speaker
Jonathan Michael is a Leadership Consultant specializing in coaching leadership performance, transitions and team development. He has pastored in South Asia and in Canada. He also served with Capernwray Bible Schools where he traveled and taught in churches and Bible schools in Canada and the USA. He graduated from Acts Seminaries and also teaches as Adjunct Faculty in the B.A in leadership program at Trinity Western University. He and his wife Christiane attend Calvary Worship Centre, a growing multicultural church community representing 85 nations.