{"id":30412,"date":"2021-06-09T11:34:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T01:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/?p=30412"},"modified":"2021-06-09T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T01:39:21","slug":"identity-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/identity-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Identity Matters\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"\u2018Identity Matters\u2026\u2019\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-06-09T11:34:14+10:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT13M54S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In these dramatically changed times the Word on Wednesday provides a mid-week ministry of Bible reading, reflection and prayer, turning hearts back to God.\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/identity-matters.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"12.7\" \/><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2Fidentity-matters.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fanglicanconnection.com%2Fidentity-matters%2F&amp;artwork_url=https%3A%2F%2Fanglicanconnection.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fpowerpress%2FWoW_logo_v3.jpg#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-1\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/identity-matters.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/?powerpress_pinw=30412-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/identity-matters.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"identity-matters.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 13:54 &#8212; 12.7MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3oaVMRpfARBkj4dyfEZcC0\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Read&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.27.4&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Personal identity<\/b> is the subject of much robust discussion today. Is our identity defined by what we feel about our color or gender or something else? There are white people who say they \u2018feel\u2019 black. And I recently heard of someone who didn\u2019t \u2018feel\u2019 their legs were theirs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The capacity for choice is one of the most exciting and yet most frightening things about our humanity. For with the power to choose there is the moral responsibility to choose well. If we were robots, we could say our decisions were the outcome of the way we were programmed. If we were animals, we could say our decisions were shaped by our genetic code. But we are neither robots nor animals: we are human beings, and the matter of choice is in our hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When we think about it, our decisions are dependent upon assumptions we have made about life. And these assumptions include the spiritual values we might have.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Come with me to a parable that opens up a very big picture about life. It is found only in the Gospel of St Mark: <i>Jesus also said, \u201cThe kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground,\u00a0and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.\u00a0The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come\u201d<\/i> (Mark 4:26-29).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>This fascinating parable<\/b> focuses on the reality of God and the supernatural activity of his kingdom \u2013 the sowing of seed and the harvest. To understand the parable, we need to read it in the context of Jesus\u2019 ministry. In Mark 1:15 he proclaims: <i>\u201cThe time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent and believe in the good news.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">With Jesus\u2019 coming God\u2019s kingdom or rule is now present in a new and vital way. God\u2019s king or ruler has come in person. His mission, spoken of in the parable as seedtime and harvest, brings the supernatural realm into human affairs. But, just as a seed remains hidden, so is the seed of God\u2019s kingdom hidden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>The parable helps us<\/b> begin to understand God\u2019s greater purposes and his way of working. The evidence of his existence is around us in the nature of the universe, but the proofs of this and his supernatural rule in Jesus Christ remain hidden. Yet, in the same way that Jesus\u2019 predictions concerning his arrest and trial, crucifixion and resurrection were fulfilled, we can be sure that the prediction of his return and bringing in the <i>harvest<\/i> of his people will also be revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Paul the Apostle in writing to God\u2019s people in Colossae tells us that with the coming of Jesus Christ the new age of God\u2019s kingdom dawned. This new age co-exists with the old which the New Testament refers to as <i>the world<\/i>. For the present a door is open, allowing people to pass from the old age to the new. In Colossians 1:13 Paul writes of God\u2019s hidden supernatural work: <i>God has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In turning to Jesus as the Lord, our whole relationship with God changes. Paul speaks of everyone who turns to Christ as <i>dying<\/i> with him (Colossians 2:20). And in Colossians 3:1, he says: <i>So if you have been raised with Christ<\/i>\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While physically we are still in the old world, <b>God\u2019s people now move in the sphere of resurrection life<\/b>. We should let the light of this sphere of eternity fall on all we think and feel, say and do. \u2018Live,\u2019 Paul is saying, \u2018as though you belong, not on the earth, but in heaven.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This means sitting at the feet of the enthroned Jesus Christ and letting our minds and hearts be instructed by his word \u2013 not least on matters such as our identity, gender and relationships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It\u2019s understandable that we hear the voices of those around us asking us \u2018how we feel\u2019. But Paul urges everyone of us who has this new life in the Lord Jesus to see ourselves and our identity, the challenges and troubles of life, through the lens of the glory of our life to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Paul develops this: <i>For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God<\/i>\u2026 (Coloss 3:3). For the present others only see our physical bodies. The reality of our new and eternal life is hidden. However, what is now hidden will one day be disclosed. Everyone will see the harvest of which Jesus speaks in his parable. So Paul writes: <i>When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory<\/i> (Coloss 3:4).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>In today\u2019s world<\/b> the idea of Christ bursting through the skies in a blazing display of power and glory, seems pure science fiction. But the Bible leaves us in no doubt. From cover to cover it tells us that the world is going somewhere, and that the final outcome will be the return of God\u2019s king.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In recent times there has been a revival of interest in 16th Century England, and especially the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Writing on Thomas Cranmer\u2019s response to the news of Anne Boleyn\u2019s execution (May 19, 1536) on false charges, Diarmaid MacCulloch records Cranmer\u2019s words to a close friend: \u2018She who has been the Queen of England on earth will today become a Queen of heaven\u2019 (Diarmaid MacCulloch, <i>Thomas Cranmer<\/i>, 1996, p.159).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>In Revelation 21<\/b> we read the words of St John: <i>Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.\u00a0And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.\u00a0And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, \u201cSee, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as their God; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them;\u00a0he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away\u201d<\/i> (21:1-4).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a9 John G. Mason<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><i>A prayer<\/i>.<\/b> Lord God, the strength of all who put their trust in you: mercifully accept our prayers, and because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do nothing good without you, grant us the help of your grace, so that in keeping your commandments we may please you both in word and deed; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b>Amen.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"\u2018Identity Matters\u2026\u2019\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-06-09T11:34:14+10:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT13M54S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In these dramatically changed times the Word on Wednesday provides a mid-week ministry of Bible reading, reflection and prayer, turning hearts back to God.\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/identity-matters.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"12.7\" \/><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2Fidentity-matters.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fanglicanconnection.com%2Fidentity-matters%2F&amp;artwork_url=https%3A%2F%2Fanglicanconnection.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fpowerpress%2FWoW_logo_v3.jpg#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-3\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/identity-matters.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/?powerpress_pinw=30412-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/identity-matters.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"identity-matters.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 13:54 &#8212; 12.7MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3oaVMRpfARBkj4dyfEZcC0\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p>Personal identity is the subject of much robust discussion today. Is our identity defined by what we feel about our color or gender or something else? There are white people who say they \u2018feel\u2019 black. And I recently heard of someone who didn\u2019t \u2018feel\u2019 their legs were theirs. 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