Who Am I?

“WHO are you?”

January 27, 2008

Dr. Randy Deal

You were fearfully and wonderfully made!

Genesis 1:27, Psalm 139:13-16, Isaiah 49:15-16

The Story of Mephibosheth

2 Samuel 9

God’s grace is far more than His forgiveness; it’s His unmerited favor!

1 Corinthians 15:9-10, 2 Corinthians 9:8, 12:9, Galatians 1:15-16,

Ephesians 2:4-7

“God invites us to a wonderful banquet, but we think its pot luck!”

“There’s nothing you can do to make God love you any more and there’s nothing you can do to make God love you any less!”

“When Satan reminds you of your past, remind him of his future!”

The BIG IDEA:

Decide to live like the person God made you to be!

Colossians 1:13-17

I am…

BLESSED when I come in and BLESSED when I go out (Deut 28:6)

SAFE wherever I go (Psa 91:11)

REDEEMED from the hand of the enemy (Psa 107:2)

The SALT of the earth (Matt 5:13)

The LIGHT of the world (Matt 5:14)

VALUABLE! (Matt 10:31)

Exercising my AUTHORITY over the enemy (Luke 10:19)

VALUABLE (Luke 12:24)

Loved unconditionally and sacrificially (John 3:16)

An inheritor of eternal life (John 5:11-12)

IN CHRIST and He is in me (John 14:20, 17:21)

Already CLEAN (John 15:3)

Jesus’ FRIEND (John 15:14)

BLESSED (Acts 3:25)

A SERVANT of the Most High (Acts 16:17)

CALLED (Rom 6:1)

JUSTIFIED (Rom 5:1)

WEAK in my own natural self (Rom 6:19)

Led by the SPIRIT of God and I am a SON of God (Rom 8:14)

A child of God (Rom 8:16)

An HEIR of God and a JOINT HEIR with Jesus (Rom 8:17)

MORE than a conqueror (Rom 8:27)

TRANSFORMED by the renewing of my MIND (Rom 12:2)

A FELLOW WORKER with God (1 Cor 3:9)

God’s TEMPLE (1 Cor 3:16)

Wise, strong and honored (1 Cor 4:10)

A TEMPLE of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 6:19)

Sanctified (1 Cor 6:11)

Standing FIRM (1 Cor 10:12)

A part of the Body of Christ (1 Cor 12:27)

A letter of Christ (2 Cor 3:1-3)

Christ’s AMBASSADOR (2 Cor 5:20)

Looking only at what is eternal (2 Cor 4:18)

Walking by faith and not by sight (2 Cor 5:7)

New Creation (2 Cor 5:17)

The RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD in Jesus (2 Cor 5:21)

Destroying speculations (2 Cor 10:4)

Taking EVERY THOUGHT captive (2 Cor 10:5)

REDEEMED from the curse of the law (Gal 3:13)

An heir to the blessings of Abraham (Gal 3:14)

A son of God (Gal 3:26)

Belong to Christ (Gal 3:28-29)

Known by God (Gal 4:9)

A child of promise (Gal 4:28)

Blessed with every spiritual blessing (Eph 1:3)

CHOSEN (Eph 1:4)

A son of God (Eph 1:5)

Saved by GRACE through faith (Eph 2:8)

God’s MASTERPIECE (Eph 2:10)

A MEMBER of God’s household (Eph 2:19)

An IMITATOR OF GOD (Eph 5:1)

The LIGHT OF THE WORLD (Eph 5:8)

Strong in the Lord and in the power of His Might (Eph 6:10)

Doing all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phil 4:13)

Getting all my needs met by Jesus (Phil 4:19)

Delivered from the powers of darkness (Col 1:13)

REDEEMED and FORGIVEN (Col 1:14)

Holy and blameless and beyond reproach (Col. 1:22)

Standing firm in the Lord (1 Thes 3:8)

A son of the light and a son of the day (1 Thes 5:5)

POWERFUL, LOVING and DISCIPLINED (2 Tim 1:7)

A LIVING stone (1 Pet 2:5)

Chosen, a priest, holy, owned by God and called out of darkness and into the light (1 Pet 2:9)

HEALED by His stripes (1 Pet 2:24)

Casting all my cares on Jesus (1 Pet 5:7)

PARTAKER of God’s divine nature (2 Pet 1:4)

GREATER than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4)

An OVERCOMER by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of my Testimony (Rev 12:11)

“WHO are you?”

January 27, 2008

Dr. Randy Deal

He MADE us to worship Him!

He MADE us to love!

We’re forgiven and free!

We embrace surrender!

We choose to believe!

We will see WHO we were meant to be!

Because…

He’s INDESCRIBABLE!

Creation’s revealing His majesty!

Every creature unique in the song that it sings!

He placed the stars in the sky and He knows them by name!

He’s an amazing God!

He sees the depths of our hearts and HE LOVES US the same!

How GREAT is our God!

Do we believe that?

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth!

1. We live - Milky Way Galaxy (SEE IMAGE) – barred spiral galaxy - 100,000 light years across (1=5.88 trillion miles) - Solar System = on the edge in the open area

Sun = golf ball, earth = 5 ft away, solar system = 1/5th mile wide, milky way = 6 million miles wide

Hundreds of billions of other galaxies!

2. Whirlpool Galaxy (SEE IMAGE) – billions of miles out in space - Center = CROSS! (SEE IMAGE)