Jul 5, 2026 · 55 min · 11 segments
Our orphan hearts tend to look to everything but God for our identity. But the good news is that we don't have to live like orphans in this universe. Pastor Philip Miller unpacks "identity:" the…
Philip MillerHost
Tim StaffordPanelist
Today we're going to put a bow on our series, Identity Traps, where we're looking at nine ways we lose ourselves and how Jesus makes us whole.
And, you know, a couple weeks ago somebody pointed out to me that this little schema here actually kind of looks like a seating chart for Moody Church.
And so what you could do is you could like identify your whole thing, your identity trap, and then move to that section.
But in this series, we've seen how our orphan hearts tend to look to everything but God for significance, for security, for satisfaction.
We look to people and power and possessions to know who we are, and it all ends up letting us down.
Because of Jesus, we don't have to live like orphans fending for ourselves in this universe.
And he rose again so that we might come home to our Father by grace, through faith, in Christ, and be children of God.
And we're learning that our truest, our fullest, our deepest, most abiding, thick, durable, robust identity is found in this simple reality of living as a child of God.
Today, what I want to do as we wrap this up is I want to share just a few final insights on this whole schema.
We're going to zoom out and look at the whole thing today with some final concluding thoughts.
Today we're going to put a bow on our series, Identity Traps, where we're looking at nine ways we lose ourselves and how Jesus makes us whole.
And, you know, a couple weeks ago somebody pointed out to me that this little schema here actually kind of looks like a seating chart for Moody Church.
And so what you could do is you could like identify your whole thing, your identity trap, and then move to that section.
But in this series, we've seen how our orphan hearts tend to look to everything but God for significance, for security, for satisfaction.
We look to people and power and possessions to know who we are, and it all ends up letting us down.
Because of Jesus, we don't have to live like orphans fending for ourselves in this universe.
And he rose again so that we might come home to our Father by grace, through faith, in Christ, and be children of God.
And we're learning that our truest, our fullest, our deepest, most abiding, thick, durable, robust identity is found in this simple reality of living as a child of God.
Today, what I want to do as we wrap this up is I want to share just a few final insights on this whole schema.
We're going to zoom out and look at the whole thing today with some final concluding thoughts.
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