The Gospel

Welcome to video number three, From Rejection to Royalty. I'm gonna tell you guys something that most people might not say up front. Just because you're saved doesn't mean you know who you are in Christ. A lot of people giving their life to Jesus still carry rejection, shame, confusion from the world, religion, from their family and from their past. But today we're gonna break that in the name of Jesus. Because God didn't just save you from hell, he adopted you into royalty. And by the way, in my platform on Teachable, I have another course specifically on identity that I highly encourage everyone to go watch where there's principles in identity that you can grow in. This is just a brief, I would say condensed version of it, but I really highly suggest everyone to take that course as well. John chapter one, verse 12 says, but as many as received him, to them he gave them the right to become children of God, to those who believe in his name. So the word right, literally in the Greek, it means legal authority. You've been bought by the blood of Jesus. You've been bought by the blood and Jesus has legal, given you legal authority to be a child of God. In the spirit, you are a child of God whether you believe it or not. Whether you believe it or not,

you are a son or daughter of the highest power in the world. You have been birthed by the spirit. You are literally a child of God. Just like Jesus is the son of God, you are also a son of God. He's the firstborn Jesus. He's the one who came to give us the pattern or the recipe to follow and allow us to be born again. But the Bible says we're co-heirs adopted into the body of Christ. We've been adopted. That means we're not just calling ourselves a child of God. We have heaven legally recognizing you as his. And you've been adopted, chosen, accepted, and loved. But here's the problem. Most of us were trained by that spirit of rejection before we ever encountered love. We were raised in systems that taught us we had to perform to be accepted. Some of you are coming out of sports. Man, I played basketball my whole life. I know how the community of basketball is. It's very cutthroat. You do good, we clap. You do bad, we destroy you with words. Some of the most talented, gifted sports athletes are extremely rejected. I meet them all the time. D1 players, NBA players.

Some of you watching this right now are in the NBA or in the NFL, or you are about to go D1, or you're in high school basketball or middle school or football or volleyball or whatever it is, cross country. But let me tell you something. You cannot perform to be accepted in Christ. No matter how well you do, how many souls you save, how many demons you cast out, how many people get healed, how many, whatever you do. If you go viral on the internet, some of you are influencers, are Christian influencers watching this. I'm gonna tell you something. You cannot perform to be accepted. We don't perform to be accepted. We perform from a place of identity. It's presence over performance. So when I do works for God, it's not because I'm trying to earn anything. It's because I've already earned everything through Christ and I'm doing it from a place of love. Some of us have parents who left, churches that hurt us, people who betrayed us and demons that whispered lies into our mind, into our soul for years. So even though you got saved, you still may struggle to believe that you're loved. You might feel like God tolerates you, but doesn't delight in you. He's like, well, you're saved and cool, but I don't delight in you.

No, God delights in you, your personality, who you are, the way you look, the way you dress. He loves you and he'll change you to become even more like Jesus. That's the whole point of this walk. We come to Christ to be a disciple of Jesus. That means a learner, a follower of Jesus to become like him in our soul. We've received everything in our spirit. Now it's time for our mind, will and emotions to align up with what God says about us. And that's a process. And that's the whole point we're being trained to become like Jesus and God is love. So it's to love God and love others. That's the two greatest commandments that fulfills everything. If you wanna learn two things that God says that we can do that fulfills everything is simple. Love God, love others. So for those who feel like God doesn't delight in you, let me speak directly into that. You are not a mistake. You are not forgotten. You are not just tolerated. You are not what they did to you. Some of you have been raped, molested, abused, verbally, physically, cheated on. You are not what they did to you. Just because that happened to you

doesn't mean it defines your identity. There's real demons out there working in people and around people. We've all been affected by that and also been the one who affected others because of that. It's sin. It's the fallen world. You are not who you were in the streets. Some of you were drug dealers, gangbangers. That's not you anymore. Renounce that set. Renounce that fraternity. Renounce that sorority. Renounce the freemasonry, the witchcraft. That's not you anymore. You're not a drug dealer anymore. You're not a prostitute. Some of you were strippers. You're not a stripper anymore. You are a child of the living God, washed in the blood, filled with the Holy Spirit, and called by name. You have a new nature. And I'm telling you, bro. I'm telling you, sis. As you continue to walk and catch this revelation, people are going to notice it. They're going to feel it when they're around you. They're going to be like, what the heck? You've changed. You're different. And it's not because of your outer. It's inside what happened to you. People that knew me from the world can't even look at me and see the same person who I was. They look at me and they're like, man, you're completely new. You're a new person.

My light's shining. They want the light too. That's the greatest way of evangelizing is allowing your light to shine. No, I don't smoke no more. I don't drink no more. I'm not depressed anymore. I'm not rejected. Yes, I went through a lot of things in the world, but that person's dead. My soul not attached to that person anymore. I'm attached not to the Holy ghost and I'm going to stay like that. Ephesians one, five, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. This is as good pleasure to see you saved, sanctified, transformed into the image of his son, Jesus Christ. That makes them please, bro. You following not giving up. Not giving up. That makes him pleased. That means he wanted you. He didn't get stuck with you. Some of you are thinking, ah, maybe he just wanted me to go to heaven. Now he's stuck with me. Lies, lies. Not only did he want you saved. He wanted to, he wants you to walk in the purpose. He already wrote for you. He wants you by the power of the spirit to destroy the works of Satan. Hallelujah, man, for real, for real. He wants you to destroy that. Now that you've been saved and the veil has been taken off and you caught it. Now he's like, come on, come on, son. Come on, daughter.

We're going to destroy the same works of Satan that he used against you before you were saved. Why do you guys think I go back to the witchcraft stores, to the Muslim mosques, to the Buddhists, to the streets, to the drug dealers and the drug addicts. I go back to the same places that the devil had me bound into free people. That's the great, the greatest way to step on the devil's neck, to go back to those dark places. And God is going to train you up to get to that point to where you're not tempted, but you have to grow in identity because you can move in the power of the Holy spirit. And if you don't have identity, you'll get attacked. Let me just give you guys some, some pointers. When I go evangelize downtown Orlando, where it's extremely wicked on Fridays and Saturdays, I don't bring people, everybody with me. Like I used to, I used to be like everyone come through. And I'd be with, you know, the whole church till like two in the morning. This is three, four years ago. But then I caught it that after we'd go downtown and we'd evangelize and it'd be powerful. People will be getting attacked all week and falling back into that same sin. The same ones who were preaching on the corner on a mic or one-on-one evangelism or casting out devils and healing the sick are falling to the fornication, falling to the alcohol, the drunkenness, the clubs. And I'm like, and we'd have to pray for them, bring them back, restore them. And I'm just like, man, what's going on? And it's because people have, they have the power of the, of the Holy spirit, the resurrection power, but they don't have identity. So when the, because when we attack the enemies coming back to attack and how he attacks is with lies. I'm going to tell you right now, it's not by him showing up saying, Ooh, I'm the devil or I'm a demon. Sometimes God can open up your spirituality to where you can see that. But I don't see that every day. I can count on one hand how many times I've had spiritual encounters like that. But when I, when, when do I really see that the devil move is it's every day and it's with lies and it's in atmospheres, it's attacks in different places. It could be anywhere, but I tell you this, when he comes with the lies, I stand on truth. Again, I don't remind him of where he's going or try to rebuke him because sometimes you could even pray, rebuke you Satan. And he'll be right there still with the lies. It's because God is permitting it. He's allowing it. He's using Satan as a training, as a training dummy. He's a literal training dummy because Jesus already went on the cross.

He disarmed every principality in power. Now it's time for you to be trained up by standing on truth at the, in the garden. What happened? Eve was deceived by a lie. If you look up that word for snake in the old Testament and the book of Genesis, it's actually talking about a light being. It's a being of light. Eve was deceived by a word that was spoken into her soul and she came in agreement in a win against God's word. He said, don't eat from the fruit of the tree. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you'll surely die. And then what does Satan say? You can be like God. And Eve was deceived by the lie and deceived Adam. He was deceived by the lie. So it shows that truth is powerful, but also lies are as well. What you come in agreement with is actually what's gonna dictate your life. Because if you come in agreement with truth, you're gonna move in truth. If you come in agreement with a lie, you'll move in a lie. But let me tell you something. God wanted you before you came to Christ. He didn't get stuck with you. He chose you. And he's not changing his mind. You have to stop measuring your worth based on the people who rejected you. They didn't create you, God did.

You might've been bullied when you were younger and God's gonna bring you through some healing through truth. He wants you to know the truth about your life so you can get that healing from the bullying, from the abuse, from the isolation, from the rape, molestation, whatever you went through. Again, those people in those situations didn't create you, God did. And God doesn't make throwaways. He makes sons and daughters, kings and priests. Let me get a hallelujah. Your new identity comes with authority, but authority only works when you believe who you are. Again, I'm gonna say this again. Your new identity comes with authority, but your authority only works when you believe who you are. Just like casting out devils, right? The Bible says, if you believe these signs shall follow, you'll cast out demons. Why are there so many people who read that scripture, know it intellectually, but never see devils cast it out? It's because they don't believe it in their heart. We will lay hands on the sick, they'll be healed. We'll be able to prophesy. We'll be able to do great mighty works, miracle signs and wonders. Also, love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, the fruit of the spirit, gentleness, self-control. Do you believe the Holy Spirit lives inside of you

and he empowers you to have the fruit of the spirit? Are you partnering with him? Think about fruit with a wife and a husband. They have intimacy, which bears fruit, the fruit of their labor. It's the same thing with the Holy Spirit. Through intimacy with the Holy Spirit, and we're gonna have a whole nother course on this, on the Holy Spirit, in the presence of God, you'll have powerful, powerful encounters that will shape everything and allow you to pour out that love. Let me tell you something. The devil doesn't fear church attendance. He fears identity because once you know who you are, you start walking different, talking different, praying different, and living different. The devil will speak those lies into your imagination to try to get you to meditate on it, but when you get those, sorry, I'm getting turned up in the Holy Spirit, but when you have those feelings or you start feeling like, man, let's say, for example, you're thinking about your ex and the devil's trying to remind you of her or him, man, you start feeling depressed or you feel like you wanna reach out. Instead of meditating on those lies, you say, no, thank you, I've been freed. Thank you that they're gonna be freed.

Thank you that you have a wife or a husband in the future. Thank you that you're gonna confirm that. Thank you that I'm not gonna be deceived by the lie of the enemy. Thank you that I'm celibate and I'm waiting. Thank you that you empower me, Lord. Thank you that I'm married to you, Jesus. Thank you, and you're declaring truth. So stop repeating the lies that people or the devil spoke over you. Start declaring the truth of what God says about you. Meditate on scriptures like from Romans 8, Ephesians 1, Galatians 4. These are all identity chapters. Ask the Holy Spirit to rewire your heart, to renew your mind and rewire your heart so your soul aligns with your spirit. You're not rejected. You're not abandoned. You're not broken beyond repair. You're a royal son. You're a crown daughter. You're a child of the king. And again, you have purpose. From this day forward, walk like it because rejection lost its grip the day that Jesus called your name. I'm gonna say that again. Rejection lost its grip the day that Jesus called your name. So let's keep going.

I'll see you in the next lesson. God bless.