Your not Who you think you are ;But what you THINK you ARE? By Michael Gatewood

Seed of Identity

Identity Crisis: Sins of My Father

Key Text: Ezekiel 3:17-22

When I was nineteen, I was determined I would not be like my father; but the more I got to know him the more I discovered I was him. One day, my dad came to my house and injected himself with drugs. I think he was so high he didn’t realize I saw him. I was not so concerned about him, but would I be like him. My dad was once called a hustler, now they are called drug dealers. To hustle you have to be able to think quickly on your feet (lie). My dad was a con man always looking for a way to work the system. When my dad came with a gift I always knew in the far reaches of my mind the cost was too high. A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. Proverbs 17:23. One day while I was driving, I refused to allow him to con me into doing something that was illegal; he then started to punch me in the face.  I was trying to keep control of the wheel; but I couldn’t and I ran off the road. Everything my dad told me he would do to help me, he never did. I became so accustomed to disappointments; I began making excuses for him. All I ever wanted was my dad to come get me out of my abusive foster home and spent some time with me. But, just as Judas denied Jesus, my father denied me.  Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.  Romans 2:1.  I spent most of my life trying not to be him; that I AM. 1^st Corinthians 12:26-27   And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.  Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. We have to be so careful how we live our lives; because it can have a traumatic effect on others around us.  One point I would like to make clear, is that you may be bound by blood; but never through sin of another.Don't allow your burdens to bury you!  Ezekiel 18:20 says, the soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.  It would be ashamed to do everything right and miss heaven because you chose not to share the gospel with a loved one. Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These [are] a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. Isaiah 65:5. When we just as Paul, learn to Identify with Christ; the identity crisis will be over. Paul said “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20. 
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