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Jesus Bourne

Jesus Bourne

By Vince Pryce

Is your spiritual identity intact? Have the hardships and cares of life or our enemy the devil spiritually stolen your identity? Or, are you experiencing all of the rights and benefits as a child of our heavenly Father?

Identity Theft – the taking of someone’s personal identification information – is America’s fastest-growing crime and affecting millions of people each year! Thieves use the information of another person without their authority.  Unlike fingerprints, which are unique, someone at your expense can steal and misuse your personal information.

Many have struggled and many do struggle spiritually to find their place in this life and to realize their God-given identity. No matter our age, God intended for us to have a deep inner knowledge of who we are in Him. We will never truly fulfill our God-given destiny until we discover our spiritual identity. 

Why does the enemy try to steal our identity? We are adopted by God and are being changed into His likeness (Gen 1:26). Have you considered some of the rights and benefits we receive through our identification ‘in Christ’…because as believer’s we are redeemed

We are loved with an everlasting love. (Jeremiah 31:3)

We have a guarantee of your inheritance. (Ephesians 1:14)

We have access to the Father by one Spirit. (Ephesians 2:18)

We are a member of the household of God. (Ephesians 2:19)

We are born of God, and the wicked one does not own. (1 John 5:18)

In the movie series, ‘The Bourne Identity’, Jason Bourne had a career. He attained special skills, talents and abilities, but someone stole his identity. He began to live a tormented life, having no knowledge of his identity. This lack of identification influenced Jason’s behavior and caused him to continue searching for his identity. In the end he finds out what and who he is. In contrast, the prodigal son a lifestyle and a behavior that was riotous. He lived and acted as if he was not related to the father. his behavior showed no knowledge of his father and he ceased to fulfill the purpose intended for his life. The world system, which he aligned himself to, performed a form of “identity theft” over his life leaving him homeless and to panhandling for food. Finally, the prodigal son remembered his identity and returned to his father. Have you experienced either example of identity crisis (naturally or spiritually)?

What really motivates our lifestyle and behavior arises of the fact that we have forgotten who we are or lost our identity? Is our experience connected in a foreign land and not ‘in Christ’? Is our conduct a by-product of the association to the ways and attitudes of our environment? Like Jason and the prodigal son, we must recapture our identity to remember we have a home in glory; and God has a good plan for our lives (Jer 29:11).  We must remember the words of the Apostle Paul as he declared that we are dead yet we are alive ‘in Christ’ (Gal 2:20).  We have been bought with a price and placed ‘in Christ’ (1Cor 6:20). We must remember that we were born again into a royal family by the will of God (Rom 11:17). We must remember that we are new creations in Christ Jesus; that we are joint heirs with Jesus to all the blessings God has stored up for us (Ps 16:11; Rom 8:17), and our identity is hid in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior.

Like Jason and the prodigal son, the restoring of our identity is in our relationship to the Father and ‘in Christ’. We bear His name, His likeness, and our lives are a reflection of the love and the authority we have ‘in Christ’.  Your identity ‘in Christ’ is all the identification you need to re-strain the enemy, re-establish your relationship with the Father and re-store a LifeLock on your Kingdom authority.