Episode 15
Remnant Ministries: I Am, You Are: Uncovering Your Divine Identity
Dre's message pivots around the profound declaration, "I am, you are," which encapsulates the essence of identity in Christ. He elaborates on the significance of being created in God's image, asserting that each individual possesses inherent greatness and authority. By drawing on biblical references, such as God’s creation of man in Genesis, he illustrates the unique position humanity holds in the grand scheme of creation. This message serves as a powerful reminder that listeners are not merely defined by their struggles or circumstances but are inherently valuable and capable of greatness. Dre's energetic delivery and use of relatable anecdotes further reinforce the notion that recognizing one's worth is crucial for spiritual empowerment and fulfillment.
Takeaways:
- God is always speaking; the challenge lies in whether we are truly listening.
- We often place the blame on God for unanswered prayers, forgetting our own readiness to listen.
- Recognizing our identity as children of God empowers us to overcome life's challenges confidently.
- Our words hold power; we can create our reality by speaking life into our situations.
- Understanding that blessings are rights, not benefits, transforms our perspective on God's promises.
- We must not forget who we are in Christ, despite life’s trials and trauma.
Transcript
Hey, what's going on?
Brother Dre:This is brother Dre on the mic, and welcome to Remnant Ministries, where the word is being taught.
Brother Dre:I hope that you came ready to hear the word of God.
Brother Dre:God is speaking on today.
Brother Dre:God is speaking every day.
Brother Dre:The question is, are we listening?
Brother Dre:Amen.
Brother Dre:You know, there are many times that we say, lord, do you hear me, Lord?
Brother Dre:Lord, why aren't you answering me?
Brother Dre:We're always putting the.
Brother Dre:The.
Brother Dre:The onus on the Lord as to why we're not getting the message.
Brother Dre:But could it be that God is speaking and you just not hearing?
Brother Dre:Oh, boy.
Brother Dre:And that's not even the sermon for today.
Brother Dre:But that could be the issue, that God is speaking, but you refuse to listen, and.
Brother Dre:And sometimes, you know, God will speak a word and you not be in the position to hear what he has to say to you.
Brother Dre:You're not in the position to get the answer that you've been praying for, because God didn't tell you how he was going to answer the prayer, how he was going to speak to you.
Brother Dre:He simply.
Brother Dre:We.
Brother Dre:We simply know that he's going to speak.
Brother Dre:You need to ask yourself, am I in position to hear what God is saying to me on today?
Brother Dre:Amen.
Brother Dre:I'm not going to prolong the time.
Brother Dre:I'm gonna.
Brother Dre:I want to come from the subject.
Brother Dre:I am, you are.
Brother Dre:Yes.
Brother Dre:That's.
Brother Dre:That's what we want to speak.
Brother Dre:Speak about on today.
Brother Dre:I am, you are.
Brother Dre:And that's what God is saying.
Brother Dre:He's.
Brother Dre:He's saying, I am.
Brother Dre:I am what?
Brother Dre:I am the truth, the life.
Brother Dre:I am the alpha and the omega.
Brother Dre:I am.
Brother Dre:I am God.
Brother Dre:And so if I am God, then you are who?
Brother Dre:That's our question on today.
Brother Dre:Father, we thank you for today.
Brother Dre:I thank you, Lord God, for speaking in this place.
Brother Dre:Lord, you know what everybody's going through at the moment.
Brother Dre:This might be the word that somebody needs at this very moment to stop from giving up.
Brother Dre:This might be the word that someone needs at this very moment to keep pushing.
Brother Dre:Father, endow me with your presence, with your power.
Brother Dre:Let me speak as you would speak in Jesus name.
Brother Dre:Amen.
Brother Dre:Just say with me.
Brother Dre:I believe that God's word is true.
Brother Dre:It is the final authority in my life.
Brother Dre:Therefore, everything that God has said concerning me shall come to pass.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah.
Brother Dre:I am, you are.
Brother Dre:I am.
Brother Dre:You are.
Brother Dre:I am God.
Brother Dre:This is what God is saying.
Brother Dre:I am God.
Brother Dre:I am God.
Brother Dre:I am the alpha and the omega.
Brother Dre:I am.
Brother Dre:I am your provider.
Brother Dre:I am the healer.
Brother Dre:I am the way maker.
Brother Dre:At least that's What I should be to you.
Brother Dre:But I'm bigger than that.
Brother Dre:I'm bigger than your problems.
Brother Dre:I'm bigger than, than anything that has a name.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah.
Brother Dre:I am.
Brother Dre:You know, when, when Moses asked in, in the Old Testament, Lord, who should I say sent me, he just told him to tell him I am situ.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah.
Brother Dre:I love the way he says that because it says that he's not confined to just a particular place in your life or particular area in your life.
Brother Dre:You know, many times we try to just put God in different areas of our lives.
Brother Dre:We, we depend on him to pay the bills, but we don't.
Brother Dre:We don't depend on him to be a healer.
Brother Dre:We depend on him to be a healer, but we don't depend on him to be a comforter.
Brother Dre:We depend on him to be a, a comforter, but we don't depend on him to be a way maker.
Brother Dre:And what God is saying on today is, I am all of those things.
Brother Dre:I can be everything that you need for me to be because I'm just that big.
Brother Dre:Glory to God.
Brother Dre:I.
Brother Dre:I'm just that big.
Brother Dre:I'm just that powerful.
Brother Dre:I am everything that you need.
Brother Dre:When we look at Genesis chapter one, verse one, it.
Brother Dre:He.
Brother Dre:He pretty much establishes how great he is.
Brother Dre:It says, in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
Brother Dre:Oh God.
Brother Dre:That's the kind of God we serve.
Brother Dre:In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Brother Dre:He, He.
Brother Dre:He didn't define himself as a, as just a bill payer.
Brother Dre:He said, I created the heavens and the earth.
Brother Dre:Everything that you see, the beast in the field, the birds in the air, the fish in the sea, I created it all.
Brother Dre:The trees, the air you breathe, I'm responsible for it all.
Brother Dre:I am literally the founder of life as you know it.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah to God.
Brother Dre:I.
Brother Dre:I've created all of that.
Brother Dre:All of it is because of me.
Brother Dre:I created you by just molding you into dirt.
Brother Dre:And, and then I breathe into you the breath of life.
Brother Dre:I gave you my DNA.
Brother Dre:I made you.
Brother Dre:I created you.
Brother Dre:And I didn't just create you.
Brother Dre:Oh.
Brother Dre:And it's getting into what I want to get into.
Brother Dre:But he says, I didn't create you just to create you, but I created you in my image.
Brother Dre:Glory to God.
Brother Dre:You were created in God's image.
Brother Dre:Can I just stop right there for a minute and tell somebody that you're more than what the enemy has tried to make you think you are?
Brother Dre:Hallelujah to God.
Brother Dre:Let me say that one more time.
Brother Dre:You are more than what the enemy has tried to make.
Brother Dre:Make you think you are.
Brother Dre:You are more than, than your.
Brother Dre:Your haters have said that you are.
Brother Dre:You are more than what the devil said that you are.
Brother Dre:You are more than your situation.
Brother Dre:You are more than your environment.
Brother Dre:You are more than anything that you are dealing with in your life.
Brother Dre:You're bigger.
Brother Dre:You're more than your problem.
Brother Dre:You're you.
Brother Dre:You're more.
Brother Dre:There's.
Brother Dre:There's so much in you.
Brother Dre:Greater is he, you than he that is in the world.
Brother Dre:You.
Brother Dre:You are more than what you know.
Brother Dre:It's just we got to get to know who we are.
Brother Dre:I am God.
Brother Dre:I am God.
Brother Dre:And guess what?
Brother Dre:You are created in my image.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah.
Brother Dre:Let me expound a little bit more on who.
Brother Dre:Who exactly God is or, or, or, or how we look at him.
Brother Dre:How we should look at him.
Brother Dre:Isaiah 44 and 6 says, Thus says the Lord, the King and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts.
Brother Dre:I am the first, I am the last.
Brother Dre:Besides me, there is no God.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah besides him, there is no God.
Brother Dre:There is.
Brother Dre:There is no other God besides him.
Brother Dre:The Buddha is not him.
Brother Dre:He's not on his level.
Brother Dre:Allah is not on God's level.
Brother Dre:There is no other God.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah to God.
Brother Dre:Jeremiah 32 and 27 says, Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh.
Brother Dre:Is there anything too hard for me?
Brother Dre:What in the world could you bring into my presence that you could.
Brother Dre:That you could bring to me that would be too hard for me to do, too hard for me to fix?
Brother Dre:As a matter of fact, when we look at that scripture, it is a.
Brother Dre:It is a rhetorical question because he knows that there's nothing too hard for him to do.
Brother Dre:And so he wants you to understand that there is nothing too hard for him to do.
Brother Dre:So he asked the record rhetorical question.
Brother Dre:Is there anything too hard for me?
Brother Dre:I want you to think about everything that you're going through, everything that has come up against you, and say, is there anything too hard for my God to do?
Brother Dre:I am.
Brother Dre:I am.
Brother Dre:I am.
Brother Dre:I am everything.
Brother Dre:I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm.
Brother Dre:I'm the.
Brother Dre:As we like to say, I'm the.
Brother Dre:I'm the big dog.
Brother Dre:I'm the boss.
Brother Dre:Everybody likes to talk about.
Brother Dre:They're the boss of this and the boss of that.
Brother Dre:No, God is the boss.
Brother Dre:He's the boss of bosses.
Brother Dre:And so if he is the boss of bosses, then what does that say about you?
Brother Dre:I keep going back to this question because I want you to understand.
Brother Dre:If he is.
Brother Dre:If he is all that and you are made in his image, then you are who.
Brother Dre:And this is where we have to.
Brother Dre:We have to come to grips with how great we are.
Brother Dre:We have to.
Brother Dre:We have to acknowledge or come into revelation of who we are.
Brother Dre:You, sir, you, ma'am, are great.
Brother Dre:But guess what?
Brother Dre:You cannot walk in your greatness until you know that you are great.
Brother Dre:Oh, God.
Brother Dre:You cannot walk in the power of God until you know that you are powerful.
Brother Dre:Glory to God.
Brother Dre:You got to know who you are.
Brother Dre:Do you know who you are?
Brother Dre:Do you recognize who you are?
Brother Dre:And because many of us don't recognize who we are in Christ, first of all, some of us don't recognize who.
Brother Dre:Who God is.
Brother Dre:And then we don't recognize who we are in God.
Brother Dre:And therefore the enemy has his way in our life.
Brother Dre:Therefore, we never become what we were called to become.
Brother Dre:And, and I got to.
Brother Dre:I got to say this, that it's.
Brother Dre:It's not just about being rich.
Brother Dre:It's not just about having the fancy car, having the big house, you know, because there are many people that have the fancy car.
Brother Dre:They have the.
Brother Dre:The big house.
Brother Dre:They have the baddest chick in the game.
Brother Dre:They have the.
Brother Dre:The.
Brother Dre:The baddest man in the game, you know, and yet they're still miserable, yet they still walk in fear, yet they still don't have victory in their life.
Brother Dre:Even though everything around them says that they're good.
Brother Dre:They still don't acknowledge or recognize who they are in Christ.
Brother Dre:They still don't recognize how great they are.
Brother Dre:We have to start recognizing and walking in the greatness that we are, in the greatness, the authority that God has given us.
Brother Dre:Otherwise, we will never really become.
Brother Dre:You might have.
Brother Dre:Might have materialistic things, but you will never really become who you were created to be.
Brother Dre:You're powerful.
Brother Dre:You're.
Brother Dre:You're.
Brother Dre:You're not God, but you're like God.
Brother Dre:Let me say that again.
Brother Dre:You are not God, but you are like God.
Brother Dre:He breathed the breath of life and you.
Brother Dre:He gave you his DNA.
Brother Dre:He made you in his image.
Brother Dre:You want to know how bad you are?
Brother Dre:If you look at Genesis 2:19 and 20, it says, out of the ground, the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them.
Brother Dre:And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.
Brother Dre:So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field.
Brother Dre:But for Adam, there was no.
Brother Dre:There was not found a helper comparable to him.
Brother Dre:Look at verse 20.
Brother Dre:So Adam.
Brother Dre:Verse Genesis, chapter 2, verse 20.
Brother Dre:So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, to every beast of the field.
Brother Dre:So here it is.
Brother Dre:God has created the heavens and the earth.
Brother Dre:He has created the beast of the field.
Brother Dre:He's created the birds of the air.
Brother Dre:He's created the fish in the sea.
Brother Dre:He has created the ground that you walked on.
Brother Dre:He has created man.
Brother Dre:But he creates man in his image and has given man his DNA, his authority.
Brother Dre:And he's given so much to man to be like him that he brings all the beasts of the field, all the birds of the air, to Adam, the first man.
Brother Dre:He gives it to Adam.
Brother Dre:He brings them to Adam and he says, now, Adam, you're like me.
Brother Dre:You are like me.
Brother Dre:You are in my image.
Brother Dre:You have my DNA.
Brother Dre:So therefore, I'ma trust you with this.
Brother Dre:Whatever you call this thing, that's what it will be.
Brother Dre:Good God all day, Adam.
Brother Dre:Whatever you name it, that's what it'll be.
Brother Dre:Not by what I name it, not what I call it, but what you call it.
Brother Dre:Oh, God.
Brother Dre:Somebody ought to recognize that there's power in your words.
Brother Dre:Glory to God.
Brother Dre:Because God made you that way.
Brother Dre:You can call things to be not as though they were.
Brother Dre:Oh, God, help me in here.
Brother Dre:You have the power to.
Brother Dre:To transform your.
Brother Dre:Transform your life.
Brother Dre:You have.
Brother Dre:You have the power to create your world.
Brother Dre:You don't have to settle for what people give you.
Brother Dre:You don't settle for what life says it's going to give you.
Brother Dre:You don't have to settle for what the enemy is trying to give you.
Brother Dre:You don't have to settle for what the government is trying to say you should be.
Brother Dre:You don't have to settle for what haters are saying that you should be.
Brother Dre:What are you saying about your situation?
Brother Dre:The power is in your tongue.
Brother Dre:Death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Brother Dre:It's in your tongue.
Brother Dre:It's in your tongue.
Brother Dre:It's in your tongue.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah.
Brother Dre:I.
Brother Dre:I got you to get to understand this.
Brother Dre:It's in your tongue.
Brother Dre:Whatever you want to be, it's in your tongue.
Brother Dre:Death and life in the power of the tongue.
Brother Dre:Proverbs 18 and 21.
Brother Dre:Death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Brother Dre:And those who love it will eat his fruit.
Brother Dre:What are you saying about your situation?
Brother Dre:Quit allowing people to say what you're going to be.
Brother Dre:Quit allowing people to name what you shall be.
Brother Dre:It's all up to you.
Brother Dre:God says, I am God.
Brother Dre:And so therefore you are.
Brother Dre:You are.
Brother Dre:You are.
Brother Dre:Are you getting the title of this message?
Brother Dre:Or are you starting to understand what I'm asking you?
Brother Dre:I want you.
Brother Dre:I'm, I'm.
Brother Dre:I'm.
Brother Dre:I'm making you think.
Brother Dre:I'm making you notice who you are.
Brother Dre:I'm, I'm.
Brother Dre:I'm getting you to label yourself and recognize the power that's within you.
Brother Dre:You're made in his image.
Brother Dre:You're made in his image.
Brother Dre:I am God.
Brother Dre:And so you are.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah.
Brother Dre:Praise God.
Brother Dre:You know, I remember there was a movie not too long ago.
Brother Dre:Well, it's been a while now, but there was a movie called Overboard.
Brother Dre:There was a movie called Overboard.
Brother Dre:And in this movie it was about a woman who was very well off, had a husband.
Brother Dre:They were, I guess you could call them very wealthy rich people.
Brother Dre:And they were on this yacht, I think they remade the movie not too long ago, but they were on this yacht.
Brother Dre:And so this handyman comes on board and does some work for these, for this wealthy couple.
Brother Dre:And so while he's on board, the woman is treating him as a second rate, I guess you could say a second rate citizen or just second rate in general.
Brother Dre:You know, he's not as rich as she was.
Brother Dre:And so she feels like she has the right to say whatever she wants to say.
Brother Dre:Okay, so later on in the movie, the woman who has been treating this man, this hard working man, we'll say nasty, she has an accident and she falls overboard.
Brother Dre:And so what ends up happening is the woman who fell overboard has now had an accident to where she has lost her memory.
Brother Dre:She does not remember who she was, she does not remember what happened.
Brother Dre:She doesn't remember her wealth, she doesn't remember her status, anything.
Brother Dre:And so throughout the movie, so what ends up happening is this same handyman that was on board to fix, to work on her yacht takes her as her, as his, as his wife.
Brother Dre:And so she begins to work hard and do things that she wouldn't customarily do because she has forgotten who she was.
Brother Dre:And so throughout the movie, of course, she learns to love him and love his kids because he's a single father and everything else.
Brother Dre:And, and so that was the gist of the movie.
Brother Dre:Here's the part that I want to highlight to you though.
Brother Dre:This wealthy woman has forgotten who she was because she had an accident.
Brother Dre:And so because she has the accident, she, she no longer can, how should I say, she can no longer access her, her authority, her, her riches, her resources because the ship is gone in the Movie.
Brother Dre:The ship leaves.
Brother Dre:They don't even know she's been.
Brother Dre:She has fell overboard, but the ship is gone.
Brother Dre:Her memory is gone.
Brother Dre:Everything that said that she was rich is gone.
Brother Dre:So my question is to some of you, what was the accident that happened to you that made you forget who you are?
Brother Dre:What, what happened to you?
Brother Dre:What, what trauma has happened to you that you have forgotten the man or woman of God that you are?
Brother Dre:What happened to you that made you forget that you have authority, that, that you have a God that loves you?
Brother Dre:What has happened to you?
Brother Dre:And the answer is not the same for everybody because everybody has went through different things.
Brother Dre:Everybody has had different traumas.
Brother Dre:It might be something that happened to marriage, and it, it.
Brother Dre:It forced you.
Brother Dre:It made you forget who you are.
Brother Dre:It made you forget who God was.
Brother Dre:You might have been messed up from the beginning because you came.
Brother Dre:You were born into a situation that was not ideal.
Brother Dre:And so you, You.
Brother Dre:You don't even know who God is.
Brother Dre:You don't recognize the, the God factor in your life.
Brother Dre:You, you could have had some trauma that happened at work or, you know, you lost a job or, or you had an accident.
Brother Dre:And now you're, you're.
Brother Dre:You're singing the Woe is me song.
Brother Dre:And, and you're saying, I'll never be good.
Brother Dre:And I.
Brother Dre:I'll never get back to where I used to be.
Brother Dre:And, and I.
Brother Dre:Or I'll never make it to the dream that I had.
Brother Dre:I'll never fulfill the goal that I had.
Brother Dre:What has happened to you that you have forgotten who you are?
Brother Dre:What has happened to you that you have forgotten who God is?
Brother Dre:Some of us is trauma.
Brother Dre:It's the trauma that we have, we have dealt with that has caused us to waver, that has caused us to give up.
Brother Dre:Oh, God.
Brother Dre:And please understand, coming from me, I understand.
Brother Dre:I feel you that many times you can go through things that, that are.
Brother Dre:That.
Brother Dre:That are so hard, that are so hard that it will make you forget.
Brother Dre:It will give you a case of amnesia, recognizing who you are.
Brother Dre:Sometimes you can go through things for so long that you tire out and you burn out.
Brother Dre:I'm thinking about how the.
Brother Dre:The thriller in Manila went with George Foreman and, and Muhammad Ali.
Brother Dre:Muhammad Ali had no reason winning that fight, that boxing fight, because George Foreman was stronger and everything else.
Brother Dre:But at the end of the fight, what ended up happening is George Foreman punched himself out.
Brother Dre:He had no more energy, and therefore he was ripe for.
Brother Dre:For the knockout.
Brother Dre:And, and Muhammad Ali knocked him out.
Brother Dre:Some of us, we have been fighting for so long it seems like we haven't gotten any rest.
Brother Dre:Oh God, we haven't gotten any rest at all.
Brother Dre:And we are literally burnt out to nothing that we do seems to have an effect.
Brother Dre:We have been burnt out.
Brother Dre:We're tired.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah.
Brother Dre:And so where you used to be good, where you used to have faith, you have tired out.
Brother Dre:Where you used to have a praise when you, when.
Brother Dre:When you used to get before God, you have tired out.
Brother Dre:But I want to encourage somebody right now.
Brother Dre:Don't tire out.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah.
Brother Dre:Oh, don't give up.
Brother Dre:Don't get.
Brother Dre:If you got to drag yourself to God's presence, get in his presence.
Brother Dre:The Bible says, they that wait upon the Lord, oh God shall renew their strength.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah.
Brother Dre:To they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah to God.
Brother Dre:It didn't say you will wait and you will be pristine while you're waiting.
Brother Dre:It didn't say that you will be strong while you're waiting.
Brother Dre:But he says, they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah.
Brother Dre:To God.
Brother Dre:Everybody ties out, but they that wait upon the Lord, glory to God, shall renew your strength.
Brother Dre:You got to snap out of that situation.
Brother Dre:You got to snap out of that funk that you're in because the enemy would love for you to stay in this.
Brother Dre:In this funk that you're in, the enemy would love for you to just say, you know what?
Brother Dre:I'm just done with it.
Brother Dre:What will be, will be.
Brother Dre:No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Brother Dre:Snap out of it.
Brother Dre:You need to tell yourself right now, snap out of it.
Brother Dre:Glory to God.
Brother Dre:Snap out of it.
Brother Dre:I'm reminded of a story in the Bible.
Brother Dre:I don't have the exact verse right now, but it was about the, the man at the pool of Bethesda.
Brother Dre:And he's sitting there, he's at the porches, and he's there for 38 years waiting for an angel to touch the, the.
Brother Dre:The pool.
Brother Dre:And whoever got in the pool first would be healed.
Brother Dre:And so there he was, waiting 38 years.
Brother Dre:38 years.
Brother Dre:Waiting 38 years hoping.
Brother Dre:And I imagine after.
Brother Dre:After a few years, you know, he started to waver.
Brother Dre:He was there 38 years.
Brother Dre:He was there so long.
Brother Dre:And here's, here's.
Brother Dre:Here's how we know that he began to just sit there and say, this is my life.
Brother Dre:Because when Jesus came up, he says, will you be made whole?
Brother Dre:Do you want to be healed?
Brother Dre:And so here he is.
Brother Dre:He's saying, well, you know, when, when the angel comes, I have nobody to put me at the pool or to put me in the pool.
Brother Dre:But that's not the question.
Brother Dre:The question is, do you want to be healed?
Brother Dre:Jesus knew something about this man that, that others could not recognize on the outside.
Brother Dre:See, everybody talks about how they believe in God and, and that's what their mouths say and their stance say, I believe God.
Brother Dre:I'm waiting on God.
Brother Dre:I still believe that he's going to do exactly what he said he's going to do.
Brother Dre:But in his heart, his heart said, I don't know.
Brother Dre:His heart said, I give up again.
Brother Dre:Why do we know?
Brother Dre:Because Jesus said, will you be made whole?
Brother Dre:And so I'm asking some of you today, will you be made whole?
Brother Dre:Hallelujah.
Brother Dre:Will you, will you allow God to play his part?
Brother Dre:Better yet, will you allow God to work through you?
Brother Dre:Will you still give God a praise?
Brother Dre:Will you still believe that God can do it?
Brother Dre:See, faith without works is dead.
Brother Dre:Being alone.
Brother Dre:Do you have the faith to believe?
Brother Dre:Do you have the faith to stand?
Brother Dre:Glory to God.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah.
Brother Dre:That's John, chapter 5, verse 5 through 15.
Brother Dre:It talks about the man at the pool of Bethesda.
Brother Dre:And so you know, he's, he's.
Brother Dre:He's asked the man, do you want to be made well?
Brother Dre:Do you want to be made well?
Brother Dre:Hallelujah.
Brother Dre:And after he got the answer, he said, pick up your bed and walk.
Brother Dre:In other words, I gotta get the, I gotta get the excuses out the way so that you can become or you can receive what I have for you.
Brother Dre:Glory to God.
Brother Dre:But it would have not.
Brother Dre:Now notice this, notice this.
Brother Dre:We're talking about.
Brother Dre:I am, you are.
Brother Dre:Jesus is there, the power is there.
Brother Dre:But it still took this man making up his mind that he wanted to be made whole.
Brother Dre:Glory to God.
Brother Dre:This, oh God.
Brother Dre:You see, you have to do your part.
Brother Dre:You have to do your part is what I'm getting at.
Brother Dre:You have to do your part.
Brother Dre:I am.
Brother Dre:God is saying, I am.
Brother Dre:Therefore you are what you are.
Brother Dre:What do you know who you are?
Brother Dre:Do you recognize who you are?
Brother Dre:Do you know your rights because of who you are?
Brother Dre:You know, the Lord told me something and, and when he said it, it, it, oh God, it did something to me.
Brother Dre:He said, blessings and prosperity are not benefits to serving God.
Brother Dre:Let me, let me say that again.
Brother Dre:Blessings, which is success in every area of your life and prosperity are not benefits to serving God.
Brother Dre:This is what he told me.
Brother Dre:He said it's a right.
Brother Dre:Oh boy, I hope you caught that.
Brother Dre:It's not a benefit to serving God, but it's a Right, Let's.
Brother Dre: , verse: Brother Dre: ,: Brother Dre:He said, before the coming of this faith, we were held in custody after the law or under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed.
Brother Dre:So the law was our guardian until Christ Christ came.
Brother Dre:That we might be justified by faith.
Brother Dre:We're justified by faith.
Brother Dre:You are justified by faith.
Brother Dre: Verse: Brother Dre:Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.
Brother Dre:So in Christ Jesus, you are all children of God.
Brother Dre:Verse 26.
Brother Dre:So in Christ Jesus, you are all children of God through faith.
Brother Dre:So you are a child of God through faith.
Brother Dre:You are a.
Brother Dre:Let me say that again because it's very important.
Brother Dre:You are a child of God through faith.
Brother Dre:You're not a beneficiary.
Brother Dre:You are a child of God.
Brother Dre:You're not an employee.
Brother Dre:You are a child of God through faith.
Brother Dre:Verse 27.
Brother Dre:For all of you who were baptized in Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Brother Dre:There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Brother Dre:If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.
Brother Dre:I am not under the law, but I'm blood through the blood of Jesus Christ.
Brother Dre:Did you hear me?
Brother Dre:I'm not under the law, but I am blood.
Brother Dre:Or should I say like this?
Brother Dre:I am family through the blood of Jesus Christ.
Brother Dre:So.
Brother Dre:So all that is of God, all that God has is I.
Brother Dre:I don't receive it as a benefit.
Brother Dre:I receive it as a right.
Brother Dre:Because I'm family.
Brother Dre:You know, family has a right to certain things.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah.
Brother Dre:When your family.
Brother Dre:You have a right.
Brother Dre:Now, if you were just an employee of God, then.
Brother Dre:Then, you know, you might deem it as benefits.
Brother Dre:But when you're family, when you're connected, hallelujah to God, You.
Brother Dre:You.
Brother Dre:You're not only.
Brother Dre:It's not a benefit to you, it's a right that you have.
Brother Dre:I have a right to be blessed.
Brother Dre:I have a right to be healed.
Brother Dre:I have a right that my family is saved and protected.
Brother Dre:I have a right to prosperity.
Brother Dre:It's not a benefit, it's a right.
Brother Dre:It's a right.
Brother Dre:So.
Brother Dre:So see, See, once we view it like that, that it's not a benefit, then maybe we won't be in.
Brother Dre:In our.
Brother Dre:It.
Brother Dre:Maybe we won't be.
Brother Dre:With a lack of faith, questioning whether this thing is going to happen for me.
Brother Dre:I wonder if God is going to do this.
Brother Dre:I wonder if God is going to do that.
Brother Dre:When, when, when you recognize yourself as having a right because you are family, then you can rest easy at night.
Brother Dre:You know, benefits get taken all the time from.
Brother Dre:From employee.
Brother Dre:Employers would take benefits away in a heartbeat.
Brother Dre:But when your family, Hallelujah to God.
Brother Dre:When you're connected by blood and you are connected by blood through the blood of Jesus Christ, faith has justified you.
Brother Dre:Faith has made you a family through the blood of Jesus Christ.
Brother Dre:When you recognize that it is so, it's a right.
Brother Dre:Then you don't have anything to worry about.
Brother Dre:All I'm trying to get you to see on today is God says I am, which means you are.
Brother Dre:And if.
Brother Dre:If you haven't figured it out by now, you are family.
Brother Dre:You are made in his image.
Brother Dre:You are not God, but you are like him.
Brother Dre:Listen, people of God, there is so much that you have.
Brother Dre:There is so.
Brother Dre:I mean, so much that you have a right to that.
Brother Dre:That there is so.
Brother Dre:You have so much inside you, but you got to see it.
Brother Dre:You got to see how God created you.
Brother Dre:You have to recognize y'all.
Brother Dre:Excuse me.
Brother Dre:You have to recognize the power that God has given you.
Brother Dre:You have to recognize the authority that God has given you.
Brother Dre:It's verse 29, talks about, you know, you are then Abraham's seed.
Brother Dre:Do you understand the, the kind of walk that Abraham had with God?
Brother Dre:He's family.
Brother Dre:As a matter of fact, when we go to.
Brother Dre:Hey, when we go to heaven is we.
Brother Dre:We go to.
Brother Dre:Oh, God.
Brother Dre:I don't want to get too much into that, but, but understand, you are family.
Brother Dre:What did he tell him?
Brother Dre:What did he tell Abraham when he made covenant?
Brother Dre:He said, I will bless them that bless you.
Brother Dre:I will curse them that cursed you.
Brother Dre:Why?
Brother Dre:Because your family.
Brother Dre:That sound like some, some mafia type stuff.
Brother Dre:You know, when, when you do good by the, the.
Brother Dre:The mafia of the boss, then nobody can touch you because your family.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah.
Brother Dre:And for somebody on today, it may not sound like much because you've had family screw you over.
Brother Dre:You really haven't had family really be family.
Brother Dre:But let me tell you this.
Brother Dre:God is real family.
Brother Dre:God is not like some people or like some family who will dog you out or have dogged you out and, and left you by yourself.
Brother Dre:No family is family.
Brother Dre:When you are family with God, you're family.
Brother Dre:You don't have to worry about whether he's gonna.
Brother Dre:What he's gonna do to you or.
Brother Dre:Or do for you.
Brother Dre:Is he gonna make a way for you?
Brother Dre:You don't have to worry about any of that.
Brother Dre:Hallelujah, Jesus Christ.
Brother Dre:And we are Christians with family.
Brother Dre:Be encouraged, people.
Brother Dre:God has more in store for you.
Brother Dre:But you gotta recognize who you are.
Brother Dre:Don't let the devil trick you another day.
Brother Dre:Make you feel like you know you.
Brother Dre:You will never succeed you.
Brother Dre:You won't.
Brother Dre:You won't be anything God's got you.
Brother Dre:Rest easy on tonight.
Brother Dre:Cast your cares on him.
Brother Dre:Tell your daddy about it.
Brother Dre:He got.
