Your True Identity
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GOD THE CREATOR
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Acts 17:23-31 (NKJV)
IDENTITY (DICTIONARY)
Individuality / Personhood
The distinguishing character or personality of a person.
Who you are or believe yourself to be.
Your autonomous self (DNA / Fingerprint)
WHY IS IDENTITY SO IMPORTANT?
1. Our identity connects us to our purpose and destiny.
2. Our identity sets the course for our lives.
3. Identity affects our wholeness and personhood.
IDENTITY CRISES
Fallen identity in Adam
False identity
Imposed identity
Conformed identity
3 DOMINANT FAMILY IDENTITIES
1. Our immediate family
2. Family of man (in Adam)
3. Family of God (in Christ)
GOD’S COMMITMENT TO OUR TRUE IDENTITY
Jeremiah 1:4 & 5 (NKJV)
Isaiah 49:1 & 5 (NKJV)
Galatians 1:13-16 (NKJV)
Psalm 139:13-18 (NKJV)
Psalm 119:73 (NKJV)
Genesis 1:26-28 (NKJV)
Mark 10:5-9 (NKJV)
Your True Identity
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Part 2 | A New Person | Sunday, May 11, 2025
2 CORINTHIANS 5:14-17 (NKJV)
NLT: We became a new person IN CHRIST
AMP: “previous moral and spiritual condition has passed away”
Colossians 3:9-11 (NKJV)
- “according to the image of Him, who created him…”
- Our new man is created in God’s image.
GOD IS COMMITTED TO OUR TRUE IDENTITY
Jeremiah 1:4 & 5 (NKJV)
Isaiah 49:1 & 5 (NKJV)
Galatians 1:13-16 (NKJV)
Psalm 139:13-18 (NKJV)
Psalm 119:73 (NKJV)
Genesis 1:26-28 (NKJV)
Mark 10:5-9 (NKJV)
Your True Identity
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In Christ vs. Adam | Part 3 | Sunday, June 15, 2025
2 CORINTHIANS 5:14-17 (NKJV)
Vs. 17 (NLT): We became a new person IN CHRIST
- A new condition, life & identity.
EPHESIANS 2:8-10 (NKJV)
God’s workmanship & new creation.
Psalms 139:13-14 (NKJV)
The cross brought an end to our old identity in sin & Adam.
1 Corinthians 1:18 & 24
Galatians 2:20
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-11 (NKJV)
Ephesians 5:5
1 Corinthians 15:50
Galatians 5:19-21
“such were some of you…” (in Adam)
“and now we are washed, sanctified, justified…”
- In Christ we no longer identity with these.
We now put these off. (Ephesians 4:22-24)
We now walk after the Spirit to not fulfill these deeds of the flesh.
GALATIANS 5:16 -21 (NKJV)
Your True Identity
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Flesh vs. Spirit | Part 4 |Sunday, June 22, 2025
2 CORINTHIANS 6:9-11 (NKJV)
“Such were some of you”
- In Adam, sin & death.
- Our old man with a sin nature
“But you are now washed”
- In Christ, righteous & holy.
- New man with righteous nature.
ROMANS 8:6-9 (NKJV)
We are not in the flesh.
We are not to identify with the old man in Adam.
Choose to walk after the Spirit, not after the flesh.
JESUS & IDENTITY
Matthew 4:1-10 (NKJV)
- Identity is discovered in Creator God & worshipping Him.
Matthew 27:38-43 (NKJV)
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Discovery | Part 5 | Sunday, June 29, 2025
2 CORINTHIANS 5:14-17 (NKJV)
How do we know Jesus?
How do we know ourselves?
After the Word & Spirit!
JESUS & IDENTITY
Luke 2:43-50 (NKJV)
- Flesh & blood cannot reveal our true identity.
- Matthew 16:16-17 (ref.)
John 5:39-40 (ref.)
Luke 24:25-27 (Road to Emmaus)
Hebrews 10:6-7 (NKJV)
JOHN’S IDENTITY
John 1:19-23 (NKJV)
John discovered who he was in scripture.
- Isaiah 40:3 (ref.)
- Malachi 3:1 / 4:5-6 (ref.)
YOUR IDENTITY
Search the scriptures & the Holy Spirit will say: “That’s you!”
- A world overcomer, more than a conqueror, the blessed of God…
Your True Identity
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Spirit of Our Minds | Part 6 | Sunday, July 6, 2025
EPHESIANS 4:20-24 (NKJV)
Put off former conduct (old man)
Be renewed in the spirit of our minds.
Put on the new man.
ROMANS 12:1-2 (NKJV)
1. Bodies = Living Sacrifice
2. Mind = Renewed
3. Transformation
• (GK-Strongs) – Metamorphoo
• To transform or change; transfigure
• (English) – Metamorphosis
o Dictionary - Change of physical form, structure or substance especially by supernatural means.
o I.E. – Tadpole / Caterpillar
4. Prove = Demonstrate; Experience
HEBREWS
8:10 (NKJV)
God writes His law on our hearts.
Example – Moses
• “bring two tablets of stone…”
• God with His finger writes the 10 commandments.
• Exodus 31:18 / 28:12 / 32:15-16
• Deuteronomy 4:13 / 5:22
CONCLUSION
2 Corinthians 3:2-3 (NKJV)
God is writing on our hearts.
Your True Identity
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God’s Image | Part 7 | Sunday, July 13, 2025
INTRODUCTION
We discover who we are in relationship with Creator God in proper alignment with His wonderful creation.
• Our Identity doesn’t originate in ourselves or from our feelings nor are we defined by our feelings.
• The false god of my feelings is worshipped above biblical truth, biological truth, physical realities or objective truth.
• Your identity if not fluid; it is fixed.
OUR TRUE IDENTITY
GENESIS 1:26-28 (NKJV)
• You are created in God’s image and likeness.
• You can celebrate and reflect it in Christ or distort and pervert it in Adam, but you cannot change it. (It’s who we are in as humans).
- Genesis 9:6 … “for in the image of God He made man.”
- 2 Corinthians …“since he is the image and glory of God…”
- Psalms 8:4-9 - Dominion is God’s image in man.
JESUS - GOD’S IMAGE
Colossian’s 1:13-15 (NKJV)
Colossian’s 3:9-10 (NKJV)
WHAT IS GOD’S IMAGE
Dominion
Male/Female
Sovereign
Creative – art/music/words
Judge/Justice
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God’s Image - 2 | Part 8 | Sunday, July 20, 2025
GENESIS 1:26-28 (NKJV)
Sin damages, distorts or pervert’s God image in man.
Righteousness in Christ restores God’s image in us.
We celebrate or pervert God’s image, BUT we can not change it.
WHAT IS GOD’S IMAGE IN MAN?
Dominion / Male – Female / Sovereign / Creative / Work
1. Judge
God judges & man judges.
- John 7:24 (NKJV)
Do not judge according to appearance
But make righteous judgments.
- Matthew 7:1-5 (NKJV)
Judge cautiously
Judge yourself first.
Then make a righteous judgment.
2. Justice
Why do people who do not know God demand justice in the face of injustice?
Psalms 89:14 (NJKV)
Proverbs 21:2-3 (NKJV)
Genesis 18:19 (REF)
Psalms 82:1-7 (REF)
Isaiah 9:2 (REF)
