Restored Identity: Becoming Who God Says You Are

This sermon focuses on the theme of restoration, specifically beginning with understanding our true identity in Christ. The pastor emphasizes that identity is positional, not performance-based—we are children of God not because of what we do, but because of what Christ has done. The message challenges believers to stop viewing themselves and others through a worldly perspective and instead embrace their identity as new creations in Christ. The sermon confronts the tendency to allow past sins and failures to define present identity, reminding the congregation that when we are in Christ, the old has passed away and all things have become new. True restoration begins not with fixing behavior, but with fixing our understanding of who we are in Christ. The pastor emphasizes that our past should inform us, not define us, and that Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father making intercession for believers, defending them against Satan's accusations.