Our whole culture is trying to answer one question, and Jon Stoe thinks it keeps handing that question to things that were never built to carry it. Politics. Sexuality. Feelings. Other people's labels.

Who am I?

In the last message of Battle in the Heavenly Realms, Jon traces identity back to Genesis 1, where God says something about us before anyone else got a word in. Then forward through the fall, where he says something more than innocence was lost, and into what the cross actually restored.

Along the way he stops at Luke 10, where seventy-two ordinary people come back from a preaching trip stunned that even the demons listened to them, and Jesus answers with a sentence about lightning and then a second sentence almost nobody quotes.

He closes at the armor of God, and makes a case that the six pieces Paul lists are not six things at all.

Preached Sunday morning, August 30, 2026. The final message in Battle in the Heavenly Realms, from Ephesians 6, Genesis 1, and Luke 10.

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