Enter Your PIN

Personal Identification Number. That is your 'PIN'.

You have to know your PIN for just about anything in the 21st century. If you go to the A-T-M you better know your P-I-N! Its how the bank is able to know that you are really you!

But, that is just the beginning.

Writing a check? Better show your photo ID. Renewing your Diver's License? Have your expiring one with you to prove that you are you! Taking a trip across the border? You won't make it either north or south if you forget you Passport...and don't those have the most amazing personal photo shots possible? Buy a membership at Sam's Club or Costco and get ready to step to the blue backdrop and say 'Cheese'!

Knowing who you are in one thing...protecting who you are is another. In today's world, story after story of identities being ripped off from the unsuspecting is on the exponential grow. 'Worms' can be dispatched to intentionally infect your laptop and steal your email user names and passwords...better be sure to keep your Previx protection current! Identity theft companies now offer products that assure you of your identity being secured in every imaginable way. Can you imagine what could happen if their information and files were breeched? I sometimes wonder how the Identity protection companies protect the loads of identities that they are pledged to secure!

"Who do the crowds say that I am?" Luke 9:18

Jesus' question to His closest followers made them think.

"Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, that one of the prophets of long ago has come back to life." Luke 9:19

People struggled to really know and understand Who they were being healed, taught and blessed by. They knew that He was no ordinary man. They knew that He had the touch of God upon Him. They just could not fathom that they were looking into the very eyes of the Incarnate God, (God in the 'flesh') when He fed them from a snack lunch provided by a lad no one was paying attention to. They knew that He taught them as one having convincing authority like none of their religious teachers ever did. They saw the transformed lives of the healed...the lasting witness of His undeniable power over illness.

"But what about you? Who do you say that I am? Luke 9:20

Jesus did not wear His photo ID around his neck like they do at your office or school. He did not flash around His Passport as He traveled from His home town throughout the region of His earthly ministry. Jesus did not have a website declaring His notable record that could take more hits than a Presidential candidate during the Primaries...complete with a looping video to broadcast repeatedly His track record and speaking engagements.

Jesus had none of that...and needed none of that.

"You are the Christ of God!" Luke 9:20

Those six words of declaration say more than thousands of words of explanation ever could! Jesus is the One sent by the Father to restore to us the glory lost in the Garden by sin. Jesus is the predicted Messiah who came with the mission of redemption, evidenced by His power over sickness, spirits and sin. Jesus is the Deliverer of souls...rescuing all who admit that they are aloof from their Creator and living in regret spawned by an insatiable ego.

Yes, there have been some who have tried to 'steal' His identity. No one ever has or ever will.

Only He has died for sin and sinners. Only He has been raised from the grave to give us real deliverance and hope.

He welcomes you to be personally identified with Him. Talk about a PIN!