Session 1 What Is Identity And Why Is It So Foundational To Life Change
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WHO AM I? WHAT AM I CALLED TO? What is my Identity “In Christ?”
Transcript of Session 1 What Is Identity And Why Is It So Foundational To Life Change
WHO AM I? WHAT AM I CALLED TO?
What is my Identity “In Christ?”
WHO AM I “IN CHRIST?”
2 Corinthians 5:
16 So from
now on we
regard no one
from a worldly
point of view…
WHO AM I “IN CHRIST?”
2 Corinthians 5:
16 So from now on we
regard no one from a
worldly point of view…
17 Therefore, if anyone
is in Christ, he is a new
creation; the old has
gone, the new has come!
Ephesians Chapter 4
17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the
Lord, that you must no longer
live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of
their thinking.
18 They are darkened in their
understanding and separated from the life
of God
because of the ignorance that is in
them due to the hardening of their
hearts.
19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have
given themselves over to sensuality
so as to indulge in every kind of
impurity, with a continual lust for more.
WHERE DO I GET MY IDENTITY?
The set of behavioral or personal
characteristics by which an individual
is recognizable as a member of a
group.
The distinct personality of an
individual regarded as a persisting
entity; individuality.
The condition of being oneself or
itself, and not another: He doubted his
own identity.
condition or character as to who a
person or what a thing is: a case of
mistaken identity
DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF: “IDENTITY”
The set of behavioral or personal
characteristics by which an individual
is recognizable as a member of a
group.
The distinct personality of an
individual regarded as a persisting
entity; individuality.
The condition of being oneself or
itself, and not another: He doubted his
own identity.
condition or character as to who a
person or what a thing is: a case of
mistaken identity
DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF: “IDENTITY”
•Appearance
•Occupation
INCOMPLETE SOURCES OF IDENTITY
•Roles
•Abilities
•Friends
•Church
WHY IS IDENTITY SO FOUNDATIONAL
TO LIFE CHANGE?
The Wise and Foolish Builders
24"Therefore everyone who hears
these words of mine and puts them
into practice is like a wise man who
built his house on the rock. 25 The
rain came down, the streams rose,
and the winds blew and beat against
that house; yet it did not fall,
because it had its foundation on the
rock. 26 But everyone who hears
these words of mine and does not
put them into practice is like a foolish
man who built his house on sand.
27The rain came down, the streams
rose, and the winds blew and beat
against that house, and it fell with a
great crash." 28 When Jesus had
finished saying these things, the
crowds were amazed at his
teaching, 29 because he taught as
one who had authority, and not as
their teachers of the law.
IDENTITY DETERMINES BEHAVIORLife change must start with the belief system in the identity before it can
work it’s way out in actual behavior
You shall
know the
truth and the
truth shall
set you free John 8:32
WHERE DO MOST PEOPLE GET THEIR
IDENTITY?Charles Cooley Looking Glass Self
WHO IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT
PERSON IN YOUR LIFE?
Influence my values
Influence my convictions
Influence my beliefs
Influence my attitudes
Influence my decisions
Influence my actions
Which really is what makes up MY LIFE.
THEY WILL TEND TO…
WHO GAVE
THEM SUCH
INFLUENCE
OVER MY
LIFE?
Family Friends Celebrities, Media, TV,
Movies
WHO INFLUENCES ME THE MOST?
WHERE DOES GOD WANT US TO GET
OUR IDENTITY FROM?
Observation Worksheet: Ephesians 2
Thy Word……is a lamp unto
My feet and light
unto my path…
Ephesians Chapter 2
1 As for you, you were dead in your
transgressions and sins,
2 In which you used to live when you
followed the ways of this world and of
the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the
spirit who is now at work in those who
are disobedient.
3 All of us (not saved) also lived
among them at one time, gratifying the
cravings of our sinful nature and
following its desires and thoughts. Like
the rest, we were by nature objects of
wrath.
4 But because of his great love for us,
God, who is rich in mercy,
5 Made us alive with Christ even
when we were dead in transgressions -
it is by grace you have been saved.
Ephesians Chapter 2
6 And God raised us up with Christ and
seated us with him in the heavenly
realms in Christ Jesus,
7 In order that in the coming ages he
might show the incomparable riches of
his grace, expressed in his kindness to us
in Christ Jesus.
8 For it is by grace you have been
saved, through faith - and this not from
yourselves, it is the gift of God -
9 Not by works, so that no one can
boast.
10 For we are God's workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus to do good works,
which God prepared in advance for us to
do.
11 Therefore, remember that formerly
you who are Gentiles by birth and called
"uncircumcised" by those who call
themselves "the circumcision" (that done
in the body by the hands of men) –
Ephesians Chapter 2
12 Remember that at that time you
were separate from Christ, excluded
from citizenship in Israel and foreigners
to the covenants of the promise,
without hope and without God in the
world.
13 BUT NOW in Christ Jesus you who
once were far away have been brought
near through the blood of Christ.
14 For he himself is our peace, who
has made the two one and has
destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall
of hostility,
15 By abolishing in his flesh the law
with its commandments and
regulations. His purpose was to create
in himself one new man out of the two,
thus making peace,
Ephesians Chapter 2
16 And in this one body to reconcile
both of them to God through the cross,
by which he put to death their hostility.
17 He came and preached peace to
you who were far away and peace to
those who were near.
18 For through him we both have
access to the Father by one Spirit.
19 Consequently, you are no longer
foreigners and aliens, but fellow
citizens with God's people and
members of God's household,
Ephesians Chapter 2
20 Built on the foundation of the apostles
and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself
as the chief cornerstone.
21 In him the whole building is joined
together and rises to become a holy
temple in the Lord.
22 And in him you too are being built
together to become a dwelling in which
God lives by his Spirit.
Because of “the cross”
and “the resurrection”
we are
CHILDREN OF THE
KING
Sons and daughters of
the most high God.
Seated with Christ in the
heavenlies and given a
promise that we will one
day rule and reign with
Him as heirs in Glory.
