Once identity has been embraced, and once the old nature has been put off, Scripture calls us into the next movement of transformation: putting on Yeshua (Jesus) Himself. Identity is not merely something we believe — it is something we wear. It becomes visible, tangible, and unmistakable as we clothe ourselves in the character of the One who redeemed us.
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If you’re just joining us on this journey, welcome. I’ve just completed a month-long series exploring our identity in the Messiah — who we are because of His finished work, His love, His calling, and His transformative grace. We discovered that identity is not something we earn; it is something we receive. It is not fragile; it is rooted. It is not changing; it is anchored in the eternal purposes of God. But now we turn a corner, because identity is never meant to be the destination. It is meant to be the foundation. Identity is not the finish line—it is the starting gate. And now that we know who we are in Messiah, we step into the next essential revelation: identity becomes calling.
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All throughout Scripture, when God called someone into a new destiny, He gave them a new name. A name wasn’t merely a label — it was an identity, a calling, a destiny spoken into being by the mouth of God Himself. When the Almighty changes a name, He is not describing who you were — He is declaring who you are in Him.
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At the heart of redemption stands the cross — not merely a symbol of suffering, but the place of divine exchange where heaven met humanity. On that hill, everything that separated mankind from God came face-to-face with His holiness and love. Our sin, our shame, our striving, and every false identity we ever carried were nailed there. In that sacred moment, the broken reflection of humanity was exchanged for the radiant image of the Son. As Paul writes, “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
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Even in humanity’s darkest moment, when sin fractured the image of God and separation entered the human story, hope was not lost. The same God who pronounced judgment also spoke redemption. The instant Adam and Eve fell, the voice of grace broke through the curse, declaring a promise that would echo through all generations: “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel” (Genesis 3:15). In that single verse, God revealed His plan of restoration — the coming of a Redeemer who would crush the power of the deceiver and restore the identity and fellowship humanity had lost.
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In the divine rhythm of creation, God’s week of work and rest was more than a record of time — it was a prophetic calendar of redemption. The apostle Peter wrote, “With the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Peter 3:8). The early Church Fathers discerned in this pattern a mystery: the six “days” of creation represented six thousand years of human labor and struggle, to be followed by a thousand-year Sabbath — the seventh “day” of rest — the Messianic reign of Christ on earth, when righteousness and peace would fill the world. This seventh millennium, they taught, would be the great Sabbath of history — the fulfillment of the rest first sanctified in Genesis.
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When the Lord appointed His feasts in Leviticus 23, He wove together a rhythm of redemption — a divine timeline that begins with Firstfruits (Bikkurim) and blossoms into Pentecost (Shavuot). God commanded Israel to count seven full weeks from the day of the wave sheaf offering — forty-nine days — and then to celebrate the Feast of Weeks on the fiftieth day. What began as a single sheaf lifted before the Lord became a countdown to the greater harvest — a shadow of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the global gathering of souls that would follow.
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