Identity Crisis (EP 97)

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What is the identity crisis?

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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and in today's episode, we're going to be talking about identity crisis. What do you have your identity in? What are you identifying as or with? And how does God see you? What's your identity in Christ? And what do we do about it? Super psyched about this episode, guys. Sorry I missed an episode last week. I was taking a little vacation break. We just got done with our live podcast show in Atlanta. It was an incredible night of worship and words. So guys, to those that came out to the Atlanta show, thanks for coming. More dates and cities soon. Coming soon. But let's talk about identity crisis because I think that this is something very important for us to dive into and kind of dissect because... What we don't understand is that a lot of people lose their identity in many different things. And one reason this was on my heart, we're filming this on June 1st. I don't know if you guys know, this is the first day of Pride Month.

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We've actually got a whole month's worth of preaching the gospel at pride parades and pride events and things like that coming up this month. But when we're at these pride events, we're noticing that people are identifying with their sexuality. Oh, well, just let everyone love what they want to love or just love this and that.

What does the Bible say about identity?

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So we're going to be talking about identity and what that looks like and things like that. But first, we have to understand what our identity is. and then what our identity is like in Christ. What does the Bible say about all these things? Well, first of all, I just want to go ahead and say that in 2 Timothy 3, Timothy actually describes what most people are going to be like in the end times. And this description is what people are naturally like already in a world of sin. He says people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, Proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people. That's just the life of sin Timothy describes.

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So you know what your identity is before Christ? You're a dirty, rotten sinner. That's pretty crazy to think about. And you know what? We have to understand that and recognize that about ourselves first in order for us to need God. You know, that's the first beatitude in Matthew chapter five. He says, blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Your identity before Christ is one that is broken, desperate, and in need of someone outside of themselves in order for saving. You need someone or something outside of yourself to save you. And why is that the case? How's that porn working out for you? How's that sex working out for you? How's the drugs, alcohol, the substances, or even how's the sexuality working out for you?

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None of it's going to work. And the reality of sin and the reality that Timothy is describing in 2 Timothy is that it's going to be this endless pit of despair. You're going to be a lover of self. And when you go home and get real with yourself, you're going to be so depressed, so anxious and so lost and so confused and heartbroken.

How does sin affect our identity?

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You're not going to know what to do with yourself, but you keep going back to that sin struggle because it's familiar. And honestly, that was the story of my life, man. Like I grew up, I've never done drugs or alcohol, but my vice growing up was porn. I got exported to pornography when I was in the fifth grade. And one of an outlet of frustration or an outlet for my depression or anxiety before I was a Christian was pornography. And what I realized when I was doing that was I didn't want to go back to pornography when I would get real with myself. But I kept going back because it was familiar because I thought, well, maybe it's going to work this time.