Covenant, Not Consent God Governs Reality, Not Individual “Truth”

We live in a world where freedom is defined by choice and truth is treated as something we authorize from the inside out. If I didn’t choose it, it can’t bind me. If it doesn’t align with me, it can’t claim me.

But Scripture tells a very different story.

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Who has the right to define your life?

In a culture that celebrates self-definition and autonomy, Scripture tells a very different story. In this message, we confront the modern assumption that identity is something we create and instead recover the biblical truth that we are created, not constructed.

From Genesis to the cross, the Bible exposes self-constructed identity not as freedom, but as rebellion against the Creator’s rightful authority. What begins as self-rule always ends in fracture; instability, conflict, and exhaustion; because the self was never meant to sit on the throne.

This sermon traces the destructive fruit of self-made identity and lands with the gospel’s clear answer: Jesus Christ is the perfect revelation of God, the rightful Lord of every life, and the only source of true wholeness. Redemption does not begin with self-discovery, but with repentance; laying down self-rule and surrendering to Christ.

The question before us is not simply who you are, but whose you are.

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If our identity in Christ is secure, why does growth still feel slow—and why do old struggles remain?

In this message, we explore how spiritual formation works not as self-improvement, but as learning to live from the identity we’ve already received through union with Christ. From Romans 6 and Ephesians 4, we see that struggle doesn’t mean grace has failed—it means formation is underway. God is faithfully shaping our lives to match what is already true of us in Christ, right in the middle of ordinary life.

You are not working toward an identity. You are being formed by one.

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