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Let me just tell you because of God, who he is, and Jesus life, death, and resurrection.
Caesar Kalinowski:We truly are a family of missionary servants now Heath.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sent his disciples who make disciples.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's our birthright.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, birthright is something that because of who your family is upon your birth, these are your rights.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is how you get to live.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is what you've inherited.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is true of you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:We actually, at our, at our second birth, at our new birth.
Caesar Kalinowski:Are born again, miss.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:We have been given a new a birthright, and we may not have only known that was true to us, but it is.
Caesar Kalinowski:And the moment you become a Christian, your life's transformed and your identity is restored.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, you may not believe it, you may not fully live in light of it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:But that's how God sees us.
Caesar Kalinowski:He says it's a family of missionary servant.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah, it's such a cool take.
Heath Hollensbe:'cause I always just thought it was a formality of baptism.
Heath Hollensbe:You know, in the name of the father, son, holy Spirit, when you actually take those words and like Nacho Libre where he just like bangs the guy's head.
Heath Hollensbe:Father son put splash.
Heath Hollensbe:The guy's like, not joking, but you're like, man, this is actually.
Heath Hollensbe:Life changing.
Heath Hollensbe:Welcome to the Everyday Disciple Podcast, where you'll learn how to live with greater intentionality and an integrated faith that naturally fits into every area of life.
Heath Hollensbe:In other words, discipleship as a lifestyle.
Heath Hollensbe:This is the stuff your parents, pastors and seminary professors.
Heath Hollensbe:Probably forgot to tell you.
Heath Hollensbe:And now here's your host, Caesar Kalinowski.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hey Heath.
Caesar Kalinowski:I decided I'm gonna go ahead and just do Jack Bauer voice of the time.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah,
Heath Hollensbe:that's all.
Heath Hollensbe:So show me the bomb.
Heath Hollensbe:We were just talking before we started about,
Caesar Kalinowski:we'll just crank the volume up and down.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like that's like you turn, you have to turn up the podcast to I'm talking about.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's really good.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then I'll just like scream, scream bang.
Caesar Kalinowski:No, you
Heath Hollensbe:don't have, you shouldn't have to adjust your volume much throughout this episode.
Heath Hollensbe:Do it with me.
Heath Hollensbe:Let's just do the whole episode.
Heath Hollensbe:I don't know.
Heath Hollensbe:I guess so.
Heath Hollensbe:I just wanna laugh when I, I don't sound good.
Heath Hollensbe:Okay.
Heath Hollensbe:I've got a question for you.
Heath Hollensbe:No, today, uh, we're gonna, who that guy are you lie matter.
Heath Hollensbe:It does sound like a, I wish Keefer sat could ask that.
Heath Hollensbe:He's another guy that listens to the show, I'm pretty sure.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:Keefer is a big fans.
Heath Hollensbe:We were talking a
Caesar Kalinowski:couple episodes, like we know, like Brian Setzer from The Stray Cats and his, you know, so he listens and, uh, and
Heath Hollensbe:if you want to connect with him, he's like, he's always on the Facebook
Caesar Kalinowski:group.
Caesar Kalinowski:Jack,
Heath Hollensbe:Jack B listens.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:So
Caesar Kalinowski:nice school,
Heath Hollensbe:nice school.
Heath Hollensbe:Keefer we'll have you on soon, buddy.
Heath Hollensbe:This stuff that your parents, teachers and pastors forgot to tell you.
Heath Hollensbe:All
Caesar Kalinowski:right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Enough of that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sorry.
Heath Hollensbe:Silly.
Heath Hollensbe:Okay.
Heath Hollensbe:Hey, today, uh, we're gonna talk about something that's pretty foundational to our lives and our faith.
Heath Hollensbe:Mm-hmm.
Heath Hollensbe:And actually who we believe ourselves to be.
Heath Hollensbe:Right?
Heath Hollensbe:Yep.
Heath Hollensbe:And, and our value and our purpose in the world.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:And so, um, let's talk, we're gonna talk about identity.
Heath Hollensbe:Uh, you talk about that quite a bit.
Heath Hollensbe:Um.
Heath Hollensbe:And we just thought itd be kind of fun to clarify it in an episode 'cause it is such an important part of, of our conversation.
Heath Hollensbe:So, uh, where does that come from for all of us and why is it so important to understand this?
Heath Hollensbe:Sure.
Heath Hollensbe:Well, I'm gonna
Caesar Kalinowski:just dive straight into the deep end here.
Caesar Kalinowski:The, the way the world is Heath, and we've touched on this a little bit in past episodes, is that we do things in life.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay?
Caesar Kalinowski:We perform or we serve, or we work or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, to have value in the eyes of our friends and our family.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or our spouse or parents or siblings or our boss or pastor, you fill in the blank.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right?
Caesar Kalinowski:And we feel like that if we do a good enough job, it we will be perceived as valuable.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so then people are gonna want us around and we'll be wanted, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:That's, you know, part, part of the intro.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, why do we matter?
Caesar Kalinowski:Well 'cause we do the right stuff, you know, we bring value to people.
Heath Hollensbe:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, and it's out of this activity that we often form our identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like in other words, what we do.
Caesar Kalinowski:And how we think people think about us has led to who we are, or at least we think it has.
Caesar Kalinowski:But there's a huge problem with that.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's super dangerous.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:It eventually will crush us.
Caesar Kalinowski:'cause you gotta stay on the treadmill.
Caesar Kalinowski:You gotta keep doing more and doing better and performing more and, oh, my boss left, now I'm a new boss, I gotta start over and all that.
Heath Hollensbe:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it goes against how God already sees us.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:So right off the top, I just wanna tell people don't believe the do.
Caesar Kalinowski:To be, you know, do equals be lie, because that's just a man that's, that's a, that's hell on earth, that's a treadmill of performance based value and identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay?
Caesar Kalinowski:Mm. So I wanna say that up front.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay?
Caesar Kalinowski:But the truth is, if we're in Christ, the Bible teaches that we've actually been made new, we've been, uh, we're a new creation.
Caesar Kalinowski:We've been transformed and given a new identity, it's actually a restored identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:And here's what Bible teaches that, that as Christians, we become part of a family of missionary servants.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sent to serve the world and, and then make disciples of Jesus.
Heath Hollensbe:Huh?
Caesar Kalinowski:This is who we are.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's our, that's our true identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:And that's, that's the secret to life actually.
Caesar Kalinowski:Wow.
Caesar Kalinowski:So this is true of us, by the way, even if we never even knew it.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's our birthright, like born again, born a second time, born in the kingdom, born of the spirit That is now true of us.
Caesar Kalinowski:That we are a family of missionary servants.
Caesar Kalinowski:And the more we understand and believe this to be true.
Caesar Kalinowski:The more our lives are gonna be fulfilled and live the life that God always created us to have.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Show the world what he's like and glory.
Caesar Kalinowski:So we've, we've touched on pieces of this over many episodes.
Caesar Kalinowski:I know.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:But, uh, I think this is, this is really important to dive a little deeper today.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:I, yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:And it sounds amazing and I'm, I'm curious as to where you're getting this from.
Heath Hollensbe:Is this just kind of a fun, just made it up.
Heath Hollensbe:Sounds good.
Heath Hollensbe:It does.
Heath Hollensbe:You're so good.
Heath Hollensbe:Sounds better than, you know, stop doing stuff so you don't go to hell.
Heath Hollensbe:You know?
Heath Hollensbe:Well, you know, and it's so foreign to what I was raised.
Heath Hollensbe:And as a child, like, you know, everything was about don't do this or you're this and, and do this and stop doing this and don't do this.
Heath Hollensbe:There was no talk of identity.
Heath Hollensbe:There was no talk of, of the adoption language.
Heath Hollensbe:There was no talk of.
Heath Hollensbe:Of anything that actually connected on, it just mirrors the
Caesar Kalinowski:world.
Caesar Kalinowski:Get these grades to get that degree.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's all, perform the job to get that title, to get that level of income, to get that, you know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:Like that's not, that's it's a hamster in the wheel.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, exactly.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's, that's the opposite.
Caesar Kalinowski:No, I didn't make this up.
Caesar Kalinowski:This actually, we've all, we've actually, as Christians, all seen this before.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:In scripture, if we've ever been baptized or witnessed a baptism ceremony, everybody out there, raise your hand if you've ever been baptized.
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh, not if you're driving, or one hand.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:One hand, or if you've witnessed one, but maybe you've missed it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay, so here it is.
Caesar Kalinowski:In Matthew 28 19, Jesus lays out this entire picture with a command force.
Caesar Kalinowski:He goes, therefore, go and make disciples of All Nation, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:We all know that we generally.
Caesar Kalinowski:Generally sort of, that's like a missionary verse, you know, like dealing with our, our overseas missionaries, but we've heard it therefore, go and make disciples of all nations.
Caesar Kalinowski:There's the mission.
Heath Hollensbe:Okay?
Caesar Kalinowski:Then he says, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:So there it is.
Caesar Kalinowski:The mission of the church.
Caesar Kalinowski:Go and make disciples and the means to accomplish it.
Heath Hollensbe:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:By, by baptizing them, soaking people, immersing them into their identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:So when it says here in this verse, and anytime in scripture you see in the name of,
Heath Hollensbe:yeah,
Caesar Kalinowski:that's an identity statement.
Caesar Kalinowski:So you've been, you've been immersed now.
Caesar Kalinowski:You've been baptized, soaked into, that's what that word baptismal means into the identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:The name of the father, the name of the son, and the name of the Holy Spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:So our baptism, it wasn't some sational magic spell.
Heath Hollensbe:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like you have to do that if you want to get in, have it.
Caesar Kalinowski:No, never says that in scripture.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, it's not just a culturally ancient ritual.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, that's what they did.
Caesar Kalinowski:And Jesus said to baptize people, he's actually saying, soaked them in their identity and how they did that.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, and how we've come as the church to do baptism is supposed to be for that reason.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:To soak people, to immerse them in a new restored identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Into the name of the father.
Caesar Kalinowski:You've seen this right?
Caesar Kalinowski:The baptisms.
Caesar Kalinowski:I now baptize you in the name of the father.
Caesar Kalinowski:In the name of the son, in the name of the Holy Spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's all a huge identity statement.
Heath Hollensbe:Mm-hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is who you are.
Caesar Kalinowski:Wow.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now think about it.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're created in the image of God and God is three in one.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Creating his image.
Caesar Kalinowski:So it's not just creating the image of a father, but creating the image of a son and creating the image of the spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:Wow.
Caesar Kalinowski:What's that mean?
Heath Hollensbe:So it's like, let's walk through like the, like when we're saying in the name of the father, the name of the son, the name of the spirit, what each one of those means to us.
Heath Hollensbe:Okay.
Heath Hollensbe:So think about it, um,
Caesar Kalinowski:you're baptized into the name of the father.
Caesar Kalinowski:Our name has everything to do with whose family we're a part of.
Heath Hollensbe:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we would, as the church, we would say, well, God's our father.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's absolutely true.
Caesar Kalinowski:He is.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, and, and, and, and your baptism.
Caesar Kalinowski:When you come, when you come into Christ in Fullness and you become his Disciple and you're, you, you know, born again, you're now baptized, you're immersed into his name, his identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:So whose dad are you?
Caesar Kalinowski:Is bears your last name?
Caesar Kalinowski:So you know, like.
Caesar Kalinowski:If, if your name was, you know Johnson.
Heath Hollensbe:Mm-hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I'm sure we have listeners right now.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's my last name thinking Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Is 'cause you were John's son, it was an identity statement.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or Smith, you know, like your last name is Smith 'cause your dad was a blacksmith or something.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I'm a Kalinowski.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's a, that's part of my identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's part of whose family I am.
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh, our PA family gazillion years ago in Poland was part of the royal class.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:You lucky dog.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, right.
Caesar Kalinowski:But, and that's why I have a castle.
Caesar Kalinowski:I live in a castle anyway, but our identity comes.
Caesar Kalinowski:So think about it.
Caesar Kalinowski:So you've been, you've been baptized now into the name of the father and.
Caesar Kalinowski:We are his dearly loved children and in Christ that makes us brothers and sisters.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:So the church then becomes family.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Exactly.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's amazing.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now we say that, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Every church will say that, but, but we'll talk about in a minute.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like if that's true of us, we're family.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're literally actually family.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:Because God says so and he's the perfect father and you know all that.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we've been baptized, soaked into his name, his identity created in his image, started that way.
Caesar Kalinowski:Is, is it?
Heath Hollensbe:We'll, we'll, we'll work through some of the ramifications of that in a second.
Heath Hollensbe:All right.
Heath Hollensbe:Okay.
Heath Hollensbe:So being baptized, that's the name of the father.
Heath Hollensbe:How about being baptized in the name of the son, what that means for us?
Heath Hollensbe:Okay.
Heath Hollensbe:Baptized, soaked,
Caesar Kalinowski:immersed into the name, the identity of the son.
Caesar Kalinowski:So we've entered into an identity relationship with Jesus.
Heath Hollensbe:Mm-hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:He's our king who came and lived.
Caesar Kalinowski:He came, laid his life down for us, but he came and he lived as a servant to, all right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Jesus said, I didn't come to be served, but I came as one who served.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:I didn't consider equality with my dad something to be grasped at, for, or attained.
Caesar Kalinowski:I came to serve.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so we are now his servants 'cause we're, we're immersed, we're soaked, we're baptized into the name, the identity of the son.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so just as his highest calling was to be a servant.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Show the world what his dad was like.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's true of us.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so as we serve others as a way of life.
Caesar Kalinowski:That is being a servant and living out of our, our renewed restored identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's part of our identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're we're servants.
Heath Hollensbe:That's so cool, man.
Heath Hollensbe:Okay.
Heath Hollensbe:The horse we don't serve 'cause
Caesar Kalinowski:we're supposed to, it's like we get to 'cause that's who we are.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's was like, you know, if Kalinowski as a royal family was like, still, you know, in power and money or something, I don't know.
Caesar Kalinowski:I have no idea.
Caesar Kalinowski:But if that were the case, I, I would, I wouldn't get to.
Caesar Kalinowski:I wouldn't get to cash that those checks and live in the castle and be generous to everybody and spend all that and defend the borders.
Caesar Kalinowski:'cause I was supposed to.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's 'cause I get to Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Because that's our, that's our family.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's how we roll.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's how you're,
Heath Hollensbe:yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:Right.
Heath Hollensbe:Get it.
Heath Hollensbe:Love that.
Heath Hollensbe:Okay.
Heath Hollensbe:And then, uh, finally being baptized in the name of the Holy Spirit.
Heath Hollensbe:What does that mean for us?
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:No, that one gets harder for
Caesar Kalinowski:people to understand.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:'cause we go like, okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Father, God, that sounds something I can get familial language.
Caesar Kalinowski:Son.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's a brother.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, he's a son, which makes him a brother as well, and I get it.
Caesar Kalinowski:But now, baptized, soaked, immersed in the name, the identity of the Holy Spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, we often don't understand the spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:We, we've talked before, we kinda see the Holy Spirit as like the weird uncle of the Trinity, you know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Absolutely.
Caesar Kalinowski:We don't know what to do with him.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:But throughout the New Testament, the Holy Spirit is the sending agent of the church.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, and he empowered Jesus while on earth and he guided and he comforted the earlier, the early church, the first church, and his indwelling presence now transforms our identity also into cent ones.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:So scripture says, and literally that word in scripture means missionaries.
Caesar Kalinowski:So all Christians are missionaries.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's that's true of us.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's not a subset, it's not a special class special people sent to Africa.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's not that, but.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's true of all of us because we were created in the image of this triune God.
Caesar Kalinowski:Mm-hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:Father Son, holy Spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we've been immersed, soaked into his identity in the name of the Holy Spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:So we are sent ones, just like Jesus was sent one.
Caesar Kalinowski:Jesus says, as I have been sent, so I now send you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And he breathed on them and said, receive the spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:See where that all goes.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now I, I, I go super deep into all this stuff in my book.
Caesar Kalinowski:Transformed.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, we'll throw that in the show notes if people haven't read it yet.
Caesar Kalinowski:I go real deep into this stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then all the crazy like community life on life implications of this on the fun stories, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:But let me just tell you because of God, who he is and Jesus life, death, death and resurrection, we truly are a family.
Caesar Kalinowski:Missionary servants now Heath.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sent as disciples who make disciples.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's our birthright.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, birthright is something that because of who your family is upon your birth, these are your rights.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is how you get to live.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is what you've inherited.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is true of you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, like Meghan Markle, she's, you know, she's gonna become a royalty.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:And getting married, prince Harry, you know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right, right.
Caesar Kalinowski:No more suits for Meghan, you know.
Caesar Kalinowski:Love that show.
Caesar Kalinowski:Darn it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Anyway.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, but.
Caesar Kalinowski:She wasn't born that way.
Caesar Kalinowski:Ah, right.
Caesar Kalinowski:She's now being adopted into that family.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:We actually, at our, at our second birth, at our new birth, our born again ness.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:We have been given a new, a birthright, and we may not have only known that was true to us, but it is, and the moment you become a Christian, your life's transformed and, and your, your, your identity is restored.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, you may not believe it, you may not fully live in light of it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:But that's how God sees us.
Caesar Kalinowski:He says it's a
Heath Hollensbe:family of missionary servants.
Heath Hollensbe:It's such a cool take.
Heath Hollensbe:'cause I always just thought it was a formality of baptism.
Heath Hollensbe:You know the name of the father, son, holy Spirit, when you actually take those words and like Nacho Libre where he just like bangs the guy's head.
Heath Hollensbe:Father son always put Bang Splash.
Heath Hollensbe:The guy's like, not joking, but you're like, man, this is actually life changing.
Heath Hollensbe:Like this is God.
Heath Hollensbe:So let's
Caesar Kalinowski:just unpack a little bit, think about it.
Caesar Kalinowski:So Jesus is getting ready to leave, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:He's getting ready to leave and go to heaven.
Caesar Kalinowski:Ascend and be sitting at the hand still human, completely human, fully, God, fully man.
Caesar Kalinowski:He sits at the, at the right hand of the Father, his dad, our dad,
Heath Hollensbe:okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:And he says, before I go, I want, I want to tell you this.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, go and make disciples everywhere of everybody, just everything I've done with you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Do that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Teach people how to do that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Teach 'em to obey this, live this way, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:And immerse them, soaked them into their true identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:In other words, they were created in the image of God.
Caesar Kalinowski:But through sin and, and rebellion and self love and fear and all this stuff, they have gotten far from that.
Caesar Kalinowski:But now because of me and my spirit, they are now being re.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like they're being born a second time.
Caesar Kalinowski:I remember when, when Jesus was questioned, I said, well, how can a man like climb back into his mother and be born a second time?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:That, that's a wrong understanding of it was like that was a physical birth.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is something bigger.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is something way bigger and way more, uh, foundational.
Caesar Kalinowski:Jesus is saying to us and he's telling his disciples, and now us go out and teach these things to people.
Caesar Kalinowski:And don't just tell 'em, do it.
Caesar Kalinowski:'cause that's back to do.
Caesar Kalinowski:To be like, do this and live this way and give your stuff and be generous.
Caesar Kalinowski:He's saying, do it out of your identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:So teach them to be my disciples and obey everything I've taught you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Immersing them, soaking them into the name of the identity of the Father and the son and the Holy Spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's what's going on at a baptism.
Caesar Kalinowski:Wow.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I, I wish that was articulated more fully at baptisms.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now we've done it that way.
Caesar Kalinowski:In some of the churches I've helped lead.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, and throughout Soma's days, you know, sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I, they still soma's still out there.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm not sure if they all do it this way, but when we would have those like baptism service, we would articulate that and it's beautiful.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it's not just a father son Holy Spirit splash.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now go take off the wet clothes and you know,
Heath Hollensbe:let's get outta here.
Heath Hollensbe:So how does this birthright apply to us today?
Heath Hollensbe:Like beyond just Sunday and waiting around for heaven?
Heath Hollensbe:Like what is this, like?
Heath Hollensbe:Apparently there's ramifications for the here and now.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, let's just talk about that back.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sorry, voice back.
Caesar Kalinowski:I just slipped back into that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sorry.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, so let's just talk about these three parts of our identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let's like, so I kind of give you the biblical where they come from, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:We're creating God, these three in one, and then Jesus says, Hey, immerse them in that identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now that's restored, but let's, let's just, let's just like kind of, let's go through this man, and let's, let's talk about it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like what it means to embrace being a Disciple of Jesus in order to believe and embrace and live out of our true identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay?
Caesar Kalinowski:Mm-hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:So what's it mean?
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, let me ask you the first one, family, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:In other words, if we're, if we're all, we all have the same dad that makes us family.
Caesar Kalinowski:So what sorts of things I'm just ask you, does a healthy family enjoy and get do together?
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:Eats meals?
Heath Hollensbe:Okay.
Heath Hollensbe:Does activities together goes out, explores, they have good conversations, vacation, they play games, they vacation, they fight,
Caesar Kalinowski:forgive, laugh.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Everything.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:How often does a healthy family kind of hang out and do those sorts of things together?
Caesar Kalinowski:Usually every day.
Caesar Kalinowski:As much as you can.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:All the time.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:And even if you like grow up and you move and live in different places or through, you know, fractured families and all, there's, there's this desire, well we wanna do it more.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:We wanna get together and then I'm talking healthy families.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now broken, jacked up families that don't live in light of their true identity and their birth.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:No.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:But if we're God's family, we have, we have God as our daddy, you know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Our Abba, we have Jesus as our brother and our Savior and our Lord, and we have the Holy Spirit now sending us everywhere and empowering us.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's a good family.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's a great family.
Caesar Kalinowski:We just get together like once a week and sit in rows and stare at backs of heads and take some notes, not really know each other.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like that's ridiculous.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's not what a family does.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so some of the, some of the implications of that is.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like we, we get to like eat meals regularly.
Caesar Kalinowski:We get to open our homes and go, in fact, it's not my house.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:Dad owns it all.
Caesar Kalinowski:He gave it all to us.
Caesar Kalinowski:So that's like, this is your house?
Caesar Kalinowski:That's my house.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, these are my things.
Caesar Kalinowski:Your car's broken down and then we've got a car problem, not you've got a car problem, we've got a car problem.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know?
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:The family does.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like all that stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And that's, I think that's, that's what God is hoping and looking for from his family, and it's how we get to live in light of being family.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's not a weekly silent, largely event in a quick turn to your neighbor, shake their hands, you know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:You know, it's,
Caesar Kalinowski:it's, it's bigger than that.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's way bigger than
Heath Hollensbe:that.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:And when you think about also just.
Heath Hollensbe:How that plays out even beyond Sunday morning.
Heath Hollensbe:Like, I mean, that's a whole nother conversation, but trying to pair people up in even smaller groups to get one another, get to know one another.
Heath Hollensbe:That's, that's not the way that, okay.
Heath Hollensbe:Alright.
Caesar Kalinowski:So we've also been baptized into the name of Jesus, the son.
Caesar Kalinowski:So like I said earlier, so it makes us, he was a servant.
Caesar Kalinowski:He was a servant king.
Caesar Kalinowski:He came as servant by his nature.
Caesar Kalinowski:So now through our transform and restored nature, we're also servants.
Caesar Kalinowski:So what's it look like to live as a servant versus do service projects?
Caesar Kalinowski:In your own context.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:So think family, neighborhood work,
Heath Hollensbe:anybody?
Heath Hollensbe:I think one of the first things that comes to mind is, is how schedules are flexible.
Heath Hollensbe:In a sense.
Heath Hollensbe:You know, your neighbor, like allowing time in your schedule for needs of your neighbors that you, Hey, I need help with this.
Heath Hollensbe:I need.
Heath Hollensbe:If, if you see a need stepping in and fixing that need even in the neighborhood.
Heath Hollensbe:And how about instead of just allowing
Caesar Kalinowski:it to like, oh God, this guy's gonna interrupt me, but that's what I do.
Caesar Kalinowski:Mm-hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:How about we just actually plan to serve people?
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:It'd kind of cool.
Caesar Kalinowski:What if we intentional, like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna keep my eyes open for ways to be blessing to people and serve others.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like I'm just gonna look for that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And that's not always like heavy lifting, like, you know, like, well, I'm gonna go out and dig a hole for 'em, or I'm gonna like, you know, maybe mow their lawn, whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:But there's all kinds of ways we serve people through our words, through our actions.
Caesar Kalinowski:Absolutely.
Caesar Kalinowski:Through gifts, finances, yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Time.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Through shoulder.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, Hey, you know, that's heavy load, man.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let me help take some of that burden off you for that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right?
Caesar Kalinowski:That's what's, that's what Jesus came to do.
Caesar Kalinowski:He took our burdens, put 'em on himself, said, now guess what?
Caesar Kalinowski:Your burdens are light.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know why I got 'em.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:So living out of our servant identity isn't just the great day of service that our church puts on.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:We serve at our church every year.
Caesar Kalinowski:We get matching t-shirts.
Caesar Kalinowski:We roll out like handle bottles of water at the race.
Caesar Kalinowski:We like cleaned up some stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's like, hey, that's all good.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:But if you live out of your identity, like, like I am a servant.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, and when I, when I serve, when I bless people, it actually shows others, shows them what dad's like.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:'cause that's what Jesus did.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then he came to only do what the father did.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I do what the father did and I see what, you know.
Caesar Kalinowski:I say what he said.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's what we get to do.
Caesar Kalinowski:So.
Caesar Kalinowski:Just think about all the needs around you that you see.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, you're not called to meet every need, but, but which ones are you?
Caesar Kalinowski:And if you're a servant, you'd be ask, you'd be asking the Lord and you'd be asking the spirit, Hey, which ones of these are you sending me and my family in our community to?
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:And sometimes it's not even just like you said, the action.
Heath Hollensbe:You know, I think one of the best ways to be a servant is to lay your freaking offenses down all the time.
Heath Hollensbe:Stop being so off.
Heath Hollensbe:Like you don't have a right to be offended.
Heath Hollensbe:Everything's everything.
Heath Hollensbe:Everything's a
Caesar Kalinowski:wound, you know, like, yeah,
Heath Hollensbe:no, I'm a servant.
Heath Hollensbe:I don't, I don't.
Heath Hollensbe:I don't get to be offended at everything you say because I I'm here to serve.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:My priorities are, are not the main thing anymore.
Caesar Kalinowski:I, I, a friend of mine is working on this like, kind of, you know, Missional lifestyle manifesto.
Caesar Kalinowski:Maybe.
Caesar Kalinowski:Maybe we've talked about it.
Caesar Kalinowski:One of the lines in this manifesto is that because of our identity, because of who we are.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is, we embrace inconvenience.
Caesar Kalinowski:Huh.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh, I love that.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's cool.
Caesar Kalinowski:That, that has stuck with me, man.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like I, I read that six months ago and I can't shake it.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so like, whenever that's, I run into anything where I go like, I don't wanna do that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or like, I don't wanna stand in that line or like, watch, I'm gonna cut this guy.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm like, I'm totally cut.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, gonna get this taken care.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, it's like, no, embrace inconvenience.
Caesar Kalinowski:'cause that's what a servant would do.
Caesar Kalinowski:Lighten load for someone else.
Heath Hollensbe:Don't just run inside when you see your neighbors pulling up, like actually yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:Press into some of that.
Heath Hollensbe:Right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, hey, like maybe, you know, drag their garbage can back from the curb, you know, offer to watch their kids after school 'cause they're.
Caesar Kalinowski:They're spending a fortune to take 'em for three hours.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:To sit in a corral somewhere after school and they go to school with your kids anyway.
Caesar Kalinowski:So just let 'em do their homework together and feed 'em a balogna sandwich.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, there's a million things.
Caesar Kalinowski:Absolutely.
Caesar Kalinowski:But if, if you see yourself as a servant, not as I do acts of service.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:But that's my identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know what I often say, like, birds don't fly because they're supposed to.
Caesar Kalinowski:Huh?
Caesar Kalinowski:They fly as they get to man, they're birds.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, you know, like, why did you walk?
Caesar Kalinowski:Why'd you walk to my house today, bro?
Caesar Kalinowski:I was like, it's like 10 miles away.
Caesar Kalinowski:Why?
Caesar Kalinowski:Why don't you just fly over here?
Caesar Kalinowski:You're a bird.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know?
Caesar Kalinowski:You get to, yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's cool.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Alright, so third one.
Caesar Kalinowski:So we, we also have been baptized, immersed into the name of the spirit, um, which makes us missionary, sent ones.
Caesar Kalinowski:Jesus said as I've been sent, so I send you, so let me ask, do you, do you see yourself as a missionary?
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm asking you that Heath, but I'm also asking our listeners, do you see that?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yourself as a missionary or is that some other type of people or is that a do to be thing?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah,
Heath Hollensbe:I mean I think I used to, not the last couple years have really been able to kind of grind some of that down in my own heart.
Heath Hollensbe:Uh, now I would say absolutely and not, 'cause I'm traveling to China to be a missionary, but because I'm.
Heath Hollensbe:Serving the people in my community.
Heath Hollensbe:Like we moved into a neighborhood to be missionaries to that neighborhood.
Heath Hollensbe:Right.
Heath Hollensbe:Because you get to, yeah, you get to, because that's your identity.
Heath Hollensbe:So, and it's freaking fun, man.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:It's not absolutely a nightmare.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:I, I, I know for, for, for most of our listeners, I grew up with this like sort of a dualism.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, missionaries were the people who went overseas.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I've shared, I shared in the book transformed a story of like, my mom taking me.
Caesar Kalinowski:To church.
Caesar Kalinowski:It was really taking me to the church building, but you know Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Didn't call it, we call it church, you know, you know, bad, not the identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, and seeing the map on the wall with all the pins all over the world, and each colored pin was associated with a, a black and white photo.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Corresponding next to it.
Caesar Kalinowski:And those people were connected to that pin, so, oh, there, oh, those missionaries.
Caesar Kalinowski:I've never seen those people look happy.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, right.
Caesar Kalinowski:They never smiled.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, they're in Uganda, they're down in Guatemala.
Caesar Kalinowski:They're, you know, they're in Japan, you know, and, uh, those are missionaries.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, I'm thinking, man, I look, I don't wanna be them.
Caesar Kalinowski:They look sad.
Caesar Kalinowski:They're, you know, clothing's outta date.
Caesar Kalinowski:That photo's been up there for a hundred years, I guess, you know, we're, we're doing, you know, mission Sunday or missions week.
Caesar Kalinowski:A couple of 'em would come and they'd, they'd come from the field.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:They always called it the field.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I grew up living next to the field.
Caesar Kalinowski:A field.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you know, we lost a million balls in Frisbees in that field.
Caesar Kalinowski:I never once ran into a missionary.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, I never understood it.
Caesar Kalinowski:But that was half the dualism.
Caesar Kalinowski:The other dualism was like, then you got a little, I was like, no.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, Caesar, actually, I grew up being called Frank because my dad's also a Caesar, and so my middle name is Frank.
Caesar Kalinowski:So you know, Frankie, you're a missionary too.
Caesar Kalinowski:At school, you're a missionary, so you can, you know, hand out a track or give an invite to church service.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, there's, oh man.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like that's, that was the extent of it.
Caesar Kalinowski:So there was sort of this weird dualism.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's like, no, no, no.
Caesar Kalinowski:You're baptized in the name of the Holy Spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:Remember when you were created in the image of a God who's three in one?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now in Christ, you've been born a second time.
Caesar Kalinowski:So ba you've been baptized.
Caesar Kalinowski:And when you make disciples do that, immerse them in their identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so we are sent ones and so everywhere we're, we're always on.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're always on.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're always on mission.
Heath Hollensbe:We just are.
Heath Hollensbe:And that changes things, right?
Heath Hollensbe:Like, because if you don't know the pulse of your neighborhood, you're probably not a good missionary to your neighborhood or, or the
Caesar Kalinowski:barista or the gal that checks you out at the grocery store.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I know there's millions of 'em, but you guess what?
Caesar Kalinowski:You go to the same place.
Caesar Kalinowski:You start to get to know people If you are a missionary and you ask questions.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you remember their name and you ask 'em fits their story, isn't it amazing how weird it is when someone like, as their job comes to serve you at a restaurant or store and they go, Hey, how you doing today?
Caesar Kalinowski:And you're like, great.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you go and you like look them in the eyes and you go.
Caesar Kalinowski:How's your day going?
Caesar Kalinowski:How's the new year starting off for you?
Caesar Kalinowski:They're always amazed.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Holy cow.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's pretty things're caught off guard most time.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's like, so like, big deal.
Caesar Kalinowski:No, it's not a big deal at all.
Caesar Kalinowski:The, the, the, the, what I'm getting at here is, this is true of us.
Caesar Kalinowski:That, that we've been immersed in this identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is our birth right now.
Caesar Kalinowski:We get to live out of it and it's true of us.
Caesar Kalinowski:And God sees us this way and if we would embrace it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Mm-hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh man.
Caesar Kalinowski:The life that's ahead of us, the life that's now ours, the authority and privilege we have, Heath, it's, it's amazing, man.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah, it is man.
Heath Hollensbe:Well, we gotta wrap it up, uh, for time.
Heath Hollensbe:So I wanna get to the big three.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Everything I'm gonna give you in the big three, we, we always write it down.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah, we want you to have it so you just download
Caesar Kalinowski:what I'm gonna say.
Caesar Kalinowski:So sometimes I kind of embellish that and I add freebies in there and tools and, yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:So anyway, go ahead.
Caesar Kalinowski:No, it's great.
Heath Hollensbe:You can get it by going to everyday Disciple dot com slash big three.
Heath Hollensbe:Caesar, what are the big three for this week?
Heath Hollensbe:Okay, here you go.
Heath Hollensbe:Big
Caesar Kalinowski:three, believe.
Caesar Kalinowski:That you were created.
Caesar Kalinowski:Good.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:That you were created in the image of a good and right and perfect God.
Caesar Kalinowski:You weren't created a wretch.
Heath Hollensbe:No.
Caesar Kalinowski:God didn't see you that way.
Caesar Kalinowski:He didn't create you that way.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you bear the image of God himself, the triune God.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it's true that through self-love and pride and rebellion, we've all tarnished and distorted his image.
Caesar Kalinowski:We've all tried to create a life and an identity, you know, fame and glory for ourselves, apart from God.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's why Jesus came to earth to begin the restoration of all things, including you and I, and, and our true identity as image bearers.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's what he came to restore.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's how we were created.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's how he, he came to restore us.
Caesar Kalinowski:Second is, um, your Christian birthright.
Caesar Kalinowski:Everything we just talked about comes with authority and privilege.
Caesar Kalinowski:You are co-heirs of all things with Christ.
Caesar Kalinowski:Mm-hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:Scripture says that Romans eight 17, his dad gave you everything and he now shares it with us as his brothers and sisters.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah, that's cool.
Caesar Kalinowski:You never have to live with a scarcity mentality or fear that your needs, you know, you're not gonna, you know, make it this month or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:Your needs are all met in Christ and in and through his love and through his family.
Heath Hollensbe:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you can live generously showing others the wealth and generosity of your father in heaven.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And a million other things.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay, sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then third, um, is that as you live outta your true transformed identity and birthright, you're gonna begin.
Caesar Kalinowski:To experience the life you were created to live.
Heath Hollensbe:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:It doesn't come from do to be like we said at the top of the show.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:It doesn't come from do this, you'll be seen this way.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's like, no.
Caesar Kalinowski:As you be flip that, Jesus came to flip that as you live out of being, you're who your I, what's true of your identity.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you'll truly show others what God is like and what life and his kingdom is all about.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:And this will never happen through just programs or, you know, speeches or preaching alone.
Caesar Kalinowski:Jesus came.
Caesar Kalinowski:He was sent, he was ascent when he was a missionary.
Caesar Kalinowski:He came to show us the father, and now we get to live our lives in the same way and for that same purpose and glory.
Caesar Kalinowski:So.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:And let me just tack on a little bonus here.
Caesar Kalinowski:This, this verse really hit me as I was thinking about this this week, Philippians four 19, um, my God will fully satisfy every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's our birth.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's all part of it, man.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's true of us.
Caesar Kalinowski:Brother.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:So I
Heath Hollensbe:call you brother.
Heath Hollensbe:It's true.
Heath Hollensbe:And I mean it.
Heath Hollensbe:I love you.
Heath Hollensbe:I love what you just said too about like, this will never happen through programs or speeches alone.
Heath Hollensbe:Jesus came to show us what the father's like, not just tell us.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:Like it was action.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:Like it was.
Heath Hollensbe:Being able to live into that identity.
Heath Hollensbe:That's amen and amen.
Heath Hollensbe:Again, on that note, we're shutting the show down.
Heath Hollensbe:We'd like to thank you for joining us today, again for the free download of this week's Big three takeaways.
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Heath Hollensbe:Should be our water's fine.
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