Who God Says You Are: Ephesians 1 Identity

Who are you? Not what you do, not how you're doing — who are you, actually? Ephesians 1 answers that question before it asks you to do a single thing. Paul spends the entire first chapter telling you who you are, what you are, how you got that way, and what you can now do because of it. Most of us have it backwards: we're trying to earn an identity that was already handed to us. In this episode: Who you are — chosen, adopted, a son (not a servant, not an orphan) What you are — holy and blameless, before you did anything How you are — by grace, through blood, sealed by the Spirit What you can do — the same power that raised Christ is working in you If you've done everything right as a Christian and you're still quietly asking where the peace is, where the joy is, and — whispered — where the faith is, this one is for you. The problem isn't your effort. It's that you're living out of the wrong identity.