What is this sermon about?
"Who Told You That?" is the opening message in Footprints Church's sermon series What You're Really After, exploring the false identities and inherited labels people carry — and how God addresses shame before sin, based on Genesis 3:8–11 and 1 Peter 1:18.
Every person carries a name they never chose — a label handed down by family, failure, or a single hard season. In this message, Pastor Ben Moore walks through Genesis 3, where God's first question to Adam and Eve isn't "what did you do" but "who told you that you were naked" — revealing that God confronts the source of shame before He ever addresses sin itself. Drawing from 1 Peter 1:18's language of an "empty way of life handed down," this message names the inherited scripts many people are still living by, and points to Genesis 3:21 and the cross as the place where God doesn't strip away our shame and leave us exposed — He covers it Himself.
Part of the 8-week series What You're Really After, exploring identity, honesty, and desire at Footprints Church, a Church of the Nazarene congregation in Ridgefield, WA.
