IDENTITY: Finding
the Real You, Part 2 Sun.,
Sept. 22, 2013
“I am in Christ”
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. II Corinthians 5:17 (ESV)
Question: Who are the two most important, most
influential people in world history?
Jesus and Adam
I
Co., 15
Thus it is
written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a
life-giving spirit.
I Co. 15:45 (ESV)
21 For
as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as
in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. I Co. 15:21-22 (ESV)
Three
Questions:
Who
do you think you are?
Who
does God say that you are?
Who
does Satan say that you are?
Who
does God say that you are?
26 Then
God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over
the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps
on the earth.” 27 So God
created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and
female he created them. 28 And
God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the
earth and subdue it, and have dominion…
Genesis 1:26-27 (ESV)
1. Revelation
Receiver
2. Image
Bearer
3. Over
and Under
4. Birthed
for Blessing
Then
the devil comes along in Genesis 3 and says, “Did God say….?”
Who
does God say that you are?
Illustration: Johnny Cash
Illustration: Chelsea Clinton
We
are in a BATTLE of IDENTITIES.
Question: Do
people ever really change?
15 I don’t really
understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead,
I do what I hate. Romans 7:15 (NLT)
22 For I delight in the
law of God, in my inner being,
23 but I see in my members another law waging
war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that
dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man
that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Romans 7:22-24 (ESV)
There is therefore now no
condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1 (ESV)
Will you live in ADAM or in CHRIST?
1 If then you have been
raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at
the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on
things that are on earth. 3 For you
have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Colossian 3:1-3 (ESV)
4 When Christ who is your
life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 5 Put to death therefore what
is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and
covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On
account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In
these you too once walked, when you were living in them.
8 But now you must put them
all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not
lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its
practices 10 and have put on the new
self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Colossians 3:1-10 (ESV)
The
Way to Lose This Battle:
1.
A
NEGATIVE area of your life becomes part
of your IDENTITY.
Anger, Depression, Poverty, Lack of
Success, Broken Relationships, Addiction, Habitual Sin.
Difference between AA and Celebrate
Recovery
2.
You
feel increasingly HOPELESS.
Start losing hope because you’ve tried
really hard, but failed.
3.
You
become DEFENSIVE.
Sensitive to others’ opinions. Hide from public scrutiny. Pull back from being vulnerable about
it.
4.
You
become a SLAVE.
When the devil isolates you, he can
really pound you.
5.
You
begin to LOSE your life.
knowing this, that our old man was
crucified with Him, that the
body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. Romans 6:6 (NKJV)
Therefore we were
buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from
the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of
life. Romans 6:4 (NKJV)
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