2. Set Free Self-Imposed

3. Summer Girlfriend Astroworld

4. Summer Girlfriend Astroworld Better than sitting at home Watching TV

5. Rocker And Music

6. What you allow to define you Either limits you Or sets you free

7. What you allow to define you Either limits you Or sets you free Christ wants you free

8. It's not wrong to want to fit It can be helpful Maybe I need to check myself?

9. It becomes wrong When my identity and worth Get tied to it

10. - Limits my choices - Subject to change Outside my control

11. Christ sets us free

12. How did she do that? What made the difference?

13. Fishermen need not apply

14. Fishermen need not apply Peter: I don't have money But here's what I got- In the Name of Jesus, walk!

15. Begins to preach…

16. ...the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead

17. And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day

18. Next day: …when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?” Next day: …when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?”

19. Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man

20. …by what means this man has been healed, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth

21. whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well

22. This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone

23. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved”

24. RidiculousHickFishermanSaysWhat?

25. Who do they think they are? What qualifies these guys To lecture us?

26. You've been there…

27. What you allow to define you Either limits you Or sets you free Christ wants you free

28. Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished

29. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus Fisherman? Fishers of men! Simon? Peter!

30. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus Hard to argue with a miracle

31. So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus

32. But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge…

33. …for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard”

34. …for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard” Calling overcomes Fear

35. Who we are isn't the issue Who we know and What we've been called to do That's the issue

36. Prayer meeting …they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness

37. What you allow to define you Either limits you Or sets you free Christ wants you free

38. Peter is not What someone else Says about him

39. Peter is not Where he comes from

40. Peter is not how Uneducated and unqualified Someone determines he is

41. Peter is nothing less Than a child of the Resurrected King of all Kings With a calling on his life

42. And you're no different…

43. Peter is bold Because his identity is in Christ And he's set free to follow Jesus Regardless of what they say

44. What if he'd seen himself As just a fisherman? Or someone who needed The approval of the religious?

45. He'd be limited By his identity And need for approval

46. You are not your limitations Moses argues with G-g-g-od

47. The LORD said to him, "Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

48. Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say" - Exodus 4

49. "Do you not think That I knew your limitations Before I placed my call On your life?"

50. What you allow to define you Either limits you Or sets you free Christ wants you free

51. Are you defined by your stutter Your physical limitations Your shyness/what you can't do? Says more about your faith Than your God

52. Peter goes to the Jews Paul goes to the Gentiles God gets the glory

53. While you're busy telling God Why you can't You're missing the blessing Of discovering just how much He can

54. You are not: What they say The categories they place you in The limitations you have And…

55. You are not your achievements

56. "Nobody rocked it like me"- Paul

57. …whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord

58. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

59. and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ - Phil. 3

60. Achievements and Causes Can become a means Of self-righteousness And cause me to miss God

61. Achievements and Causes To God's glory are great But they aren't for yours Else they begin to define you

62. You are not what you've done Or what's been done to you

63. The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost - 1 Tim. 1:15

64. The closer I grow to Christ The more aware I will be Of my own sin- don't fight it It's a gift of acceptance And humility

65. For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God

66. Accomplishments And causes can blind me To the truth Of my own sin

67. How can this guy Write scripture and preach Knowing his past? Murderer, hypocrite, persecutor

68. Grace brings acceptance

69. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain - 1 Cor. 15:9-10

70. Only when I own my past And give it to Jesus- all of it - Can I move into the present And walk forward into the future

71. What you allow to define you Either limits you Or sets you free Christ wants you free

72. You are not what you've done You are not What's been done to you

73. You are not: - What they say about you - The categories you fit in - Your limitations - Your achievements

74. Here's who you are:

75. If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God

76. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth

77. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God - Col. 3

78. You are in Christ God is I AM Not I was Or I will be

79. Jesus sets us free

80. The woman who walked in On Jesus and the men…

81. …I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much- Luke 7

82. How? - Primary identity in Christ= Don't need approval to live it

83. How? - Dead people don't worry About what others think of them

84. How? - Others-centered- set free to love instead of worrying about being accepted and liked

85. How? - Be real about struggles

86. As a church… Not here to make a name for Layman But to make Jesus famous

88. - Easter Eggs - Samaritan Inn- VanderMey - 10:15 Today- Parents of Teens - 10:15 Next Week- Women