IDENTITY (LB)

Leaving Babylon pg. 89 – 90

Now we come to the question, who are you now? If your will has been decidedly changed and you have made the decision to accept Christ and to leave Babylon, you are a new creation. Thus, you have a new identity. What is your new identity? It is not just a matter of a new label, for your very essence, your spirit, has been infused with God. You must now understand the facts of being who and what you are. You must understand your new identity.

Now you are a child of the Most High God. You have been adopted into His family and were bought with a precious price. God saved you to make you His own. His desire for you is that you look like Him, speak like Him, walk like Him that you make decisions that are according to His heart and that you are loyal only to Him. This loyalty is the most serious of matters. It requires your attentiveness. It is not a casual concern but the very heart of your new identity. You have literally entered into God’s “Witness Protection Plan.” Your name has been changed to Child of God. Your home has been changed by the way you live, and your job has been changed to the purposes of God. You are in every way a new creation in Christ. You have come under His protection.

Why do you need protection? Because as a child of God, your life now testifies against Satan and his Babylonian system. Everything you do toward God’s purposes also testifies against Satan’s purposes. This is the duo effect of living for God. This duo effect releases a rage against the children of God as the hordes of hell target them for destruction. Peter spoke of this duo effect when he warned believers not to think it is strange when they face severe troubles as if something strange was going on in their lives (1 Pet. 4:12). This is a part of our new identity—fighting side by side with Christ as we leave Babylon. But we must stay within His witness protection plan by embracing our new identity.