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Discipleship Focus: Identity, Authority
- Identity: Our true identity comes from the Father. Only when our identity comes from God can we be obedient in ways that satisfy our person to our core.
- Authority: Our calling. This comes from God as king. Because He calls us as His representatives, He gives us authority to go and do His will.
Yesterday I demonstrated that covenant comes before kingdom. We must know God’s relationship before we can
know God’s agenda. We must know the
Father before we can truly grasp the King.
It makes sense in Exodus 10 to continue this pattern but to do so while
looking at the second point for each of the Covenant and Kingdom triangles.
Our identity should come out of the Father. We should learn to value what He values and
what He desires for us to value. We
should learn His character and imitate His character within ourselves. Likewise, our authority should come from the
king. Once our identity is situated in
the Father we can look to God as the King and the one with a plan for the
world. Then we can see where He is
calling His representatives to go out into the world in authority. This is how it should work. This is how we begun to see Moses mature and
operate over the last few chapters.
However, this is exactly the model that we see Pharaoh rebelling
against. Pharaoh does not want to
submit. He does not desire to get his
identity from anywhere but his own mind.
He does not want to get his authority from anywhere but his own passion. Rather than submit to God, he tries to
compromise with God. He will let the
people go, but only if he can mandate the terms. He still desires to create his own authority
because his identity is equally misplaced.
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