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But the demons of this world and the culture, they want you fearful, lustful, harmless,

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hurtful, angry, and frustrated. That's what demons want to do to you.

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So I'm talking about the power of shame and the demonic. And in the last episode,

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I talked about step one and three courageous steps to getting free from the demonic in your

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life and to be getting set free from shame in your life. And the first is to be vulnerable

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about your shame. Be vulnerable about what's happened to you with some bloodstained allies,

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with some people that you can trust. And I think it's pretty important to understand that shame

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is not always something you've done. Shame is a lot of times things that have been done to you.

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But the point about shame is it's those things that are painful, kind of painful feelings

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from experiences of our past, either done to us or we have done that causes us to believe

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that we're impaired, unworthy of respect and belonging. So some of you may have committed a

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crime at some point in your life where you stole something. Maybe you murdered someone. Maybe

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you raped someone. Or maybe that has happened to you. But either way, not many people know about

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it. And it's a hidden thing in your life. And the way you've dealt with that is to say, oh,

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it never happened or no, I was innocent or whatever it might be. I'm telling you that

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you're never going to be set free until you tell the honest to goodness truth with some

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bloodstained allies, that you share with them the truth of what happened. And then you get them to

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pray for you and you start having a relationship and having life together with some bloodstained

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allies in your life. Because God made you lion hearted. God made you to be bold. God made you

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to be a worshipper and a warrior. But the demons of this world and the culture, they want you

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fearful, lustful, harmless, hurtful, angry and frustrated. That's what demons want to do to you.

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Well, you got to expose their tactics. You got to expose their power in your life.

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Because most Christians today are posers. Most Christians are pretenders, performers and power

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hungry. We know of right now pastors across our country. I think in the last month there's been a

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ton of different situations where it's obvious that these particular leaders are posers.

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They're faking it. They seem to be like really good Christians on the outside,

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but they're actually doing some really harmful stuff to people on the inside.

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And so they're dealing with shame. I mean, I wish I had them in a room. I wish I could just say,

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look, you guys, you're not going to get set free by being a poser and a pretender and a performer.

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How about being authentic, real and vulnerable? I know because I've been a poser. I know because

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I've been a performer. I know how to do it. I know. I know how to speak Japanese and also know

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how to speak Christianese and how to go into a church and act like I'm something that I'm not.

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And I got tired of that. And so I broke that up and quit doing that. So what happens, though,

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is if we continue to grow and live that way, then that becomes our identity. And the only way to

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break out into a new identity is the first step is to root out shame through vulnerability with God

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and some bloodstained allies. The Bible says confess your trespasses or confess your sins

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to one another. Pray for one another that you may be healed and the effective, fervent prayer

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of a righteous man availeth much. So it's confessing our sins to some bloodstained allies.

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That's step one. That's the courageous step number one. Courageous step number two, you root out shame

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through realizing that you're beloved. At Jesus' baptism, a voice comes from heaven and the Father

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says to his son, you are my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. This is the true self. Knowing

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that we're loved, accepted, and in the beloved, this is your new identity. Your identity is not

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in your shame. Your identity is not in your sin. Your identity is not in your mistakes.

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Your identity is in Christ and he calls you his beloved son. You're his beloved son.

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You are a new creation in Christ.

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The old things, the old shame has passed away, behold, new things have come.

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This is your new identity.

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You should be able to walk out of this message today with a God confidence, with your chest

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out, your head back, and be able to say, I'm beloved in Christ, the Father of the universe,

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the creator of the universe calls me his beloved son.

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And as his beloved son, you have a, you guys, you have a new father and he cherishes you

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and he loves you and he cares about you.

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If you look up a definition of beloved, it means you're prized, much loved, cherished,

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treasured, highly regarded, admired, esteemed, revered, and venerated.

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That's who you are.

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You are revered by God.

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You're prized by God.

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You're cherished by God and you're treasured by him and he loves you very, very much.

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And I want to challenge you to wake up each morning saying, I'm beloved.

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I want you to look at other blessed and allies and tell those guys, you know, you're beloved

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in Christ.

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Because when you start to really discover that that is your true identity, then the

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power of shame starts to lose its grip over your heart.

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And you start to live out of the new heart that you've been given, the new spirit, instead

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of knowing Christ intellectually, but not experiencing him in your heart.

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God wants you to experience God in your heart.

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God wants you to experience him emotionally, not just intellectually.

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So many believers have an intellectual relation with God, but they don't have a heart on fire.

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They know all the doctrine.

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They know all the Bible verses, but they don't know God's heart.

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I want to challenge you to renew your mind with, I am beloved.

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I am a child of God.

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I am a son of God.

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And I'm going to walk in that sonship.

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I am a king.

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I am a priest.

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I am a prophet in the Lord.

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And God fills me with everything that I need to be more than a conqueror in this life.

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Not in the life to come only, that's true, but I'm talking about right now, you're more

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than a conqueror.

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Right now, you're beloved.

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Right now, greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

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Right now, you're forgiven.

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So quit walking in your unforgiveness.

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Quit leading out with your life like you're an orphan.

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You're not an orphan anymore.

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You have a father.

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You may not have an earthly father.

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You may not have an earthly mother, but you have a heavenly father who walks with you

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every day.

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It's Jesus.

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He loves you.

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He's there with you.

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He can empower you.

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So you're a new creation in Christ, you're beloved.

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So first, share your shame.

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Be vulnerable about your shame.

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Be vulnerable about your mistakes and the things that have happened to you with some

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blessed allies.

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Second, know that you're beloved.

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And then third, you root out shame thirdly through delighting in God more than your shame.

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Delight in God more than your shame.

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You say, well, Steve, I don't delight in my shame.

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Yes, you do.

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Yes, you do.

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No, I don't.

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Yes, you do.

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Yes, you do.

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You know how I know?

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Because you're thinking about it all the time.

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What you think about all the time, that's what you worship.

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You worship what you think about.

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Now, I'm not talking about that you've got some cow, golden calf on a statue and you

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bow down and worship or you light candles to it.

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That's not worship.

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Worship is focus.

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Worship is what you focus on.

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And so if you're focusing on your sin and you're focusing on your shame and you're focusing

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on your past or you're focusing about what happened to you when you were eight years

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old constantly.

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Now, I just said in step one, you've got to focus enough on it so you can deal with it.

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But I'm saying that the way out is that you start to put your delight in God, not your

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shame.

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How do you do that?

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You do that with a fierce, passionate desire for intimacy with Jesus.

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You've got to make that bigger than your lustful thoughts.

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You've got to make that stronger.

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then you're unforgiveness to this person who did you wrong.

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Listen, everybody listening to this broadcast has been done wrong.

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All of us have been done wrong.

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We've all been betrayed, we've all been hurt, we've all been ripped off.

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Some of you have good parents, some of you have great parents,

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some of you have lousy parents,

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some of you have had really good girlfriends,

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really good relationships, and some of you have had lousy ones,

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but here's the deal.

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Everybody has been stabbed in the back,

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and what I find is that a lot of people,

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that becomes their identity,

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is focusing on how hard everything was or how bad everything was.

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I'm telling you, the way to root out and come into the freedom

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that God has for you and root out captivity in your life

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is to delight more in God than anything else.

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To worship Him and to think about Him, to read the Word,

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to be in God's Word, to have Bible studies

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with some of your bloodstained allies,

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to grow in your new identity as beloved.

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And I'm telling you, men and women, this is how it works,

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that what you delight in is what you'll become.

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What you delight in is what you will become.

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Not overnight, but if you delight in being His beloved,

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if you delight in making Jesus the Lord of your life,

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if you delight in the Kingdom of God,

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you'll become the Kingdom of God.

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You'll become like Jesus.

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You'll become free.

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You'll become victorious.

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So that's the challenge to being lionhearted, men, is for you.

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Number one, be vulnerable with some bloodstained allies.

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Number two, begin to focus on your belovedness,

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your new identity in Christ.

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And then thirdly, delight in God.

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Make that your focus.

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Worship Him.

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Delight in Him.

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Think about Him.

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Open God's Word.

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Read God's Word for hours at a time.

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Soak yourself in God's Word.

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And it won't happen overnight, men.

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But over time, you're going to see yourself changed.

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You're going to see yourself transformed.

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And that's the key to being lionhearted.

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And we'll talk more about that in the next episode.