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Dudley Rutherford
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SELF-IMAGE & IDENTITY
SELF-IMAGE & IDENTITY
• Is the mental picture or perception that a person has of themselves.
• Is the way a person feels about his or her personality, achievements, and value to society.
• Is how someone thinks how they appear to other people. Before Christ, your perceptions and people are all you have to define you.
SELF-IMAGE & IDENTITY
Can Be Shaped By…
• Your Parents…
• Your Abilities…
• Your Spouse…
• Your Personality…
• Your Friends…
• Your Beliefs & Values...
• Your Education...
• Your Income...
• Your Work…
• Your Social Expectations…
SELF-IMAGE & IDENTITY
Can Be Shaped By…
• The WORDS people have said to you.
• The LABELS people have used on you.
• The WOUNDS from other people…
• The TRAMATIC experiences in your life.
• The VICTORIES in your life!
Checking Your IDENTITY?
The Identity of Many
• Is rooted in Self-Focus, Materialism, Pride, and Self-gratification.
1 John 2:16
“For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.”
The World “Says” Your Have...
1. A Personal identity.
2. A Social identity.
3. A Cultural identity.
4. A Professional identity.
5. A Fluidity of identity.
The World Wants You To “Identify” With Them
PROOF OF IDENTITY
• Knowledge-Based Verification
• Witness Verification
• Digital Verification
• Biometric Verification Face, Voice, Iris, Fingerprint, Veins, DNA, etc.
• Proven by Documentation or Transaction.
“Who Am I?”
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WHO AM I?
If You Are A Christian...
When
You Are In Christ You Are Unshakable!
My Unshakable Identity
Is Because...
1. I Am... Chosen By God!
2. 3. 4. 5.
Jeremiah 1:5
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born, I set you apart.”
Ephesians 1:4-5
4 “For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight.
5 In love, He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ.”
My Unshakable Identity
1. I Am... Chosen By God!
2. I Am... Redeemed & Made New 3. 4. 5. Is Because...
Ephesians 1:7
“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.”
2 Corinthians 5:17
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
My Unshakable Identity
1. I Am... Chosen By God!
3. I Am... Part of God’s Family! 4. 5. Is Because...
2. I Am... Redeemed & Made New
John 1:12
“Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.”
Ephesians 2:19
“Consequently,
you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of His household.”
My Unshakable Identity
1. I Am... Chosen By God!
2. I Am... Redeemed & Made New
3. I Am... A Child Of God!
4. I Have... A New Identity & Purpose!
5. Is Because...
1 Peter 2:9-10
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession…”
Ephesians 2:10
“For we are God’s handiwork (poiema), created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
My Unshakable Identity
1. I Am... Chosen By God!
2. I Am... Redeemed & Made New
3. I Am... A Child Of God!
5. I Have... The Holy Spirit! Is Because...
4. I Have... A New Identity & Purpose!
Ephesians 3:16-17
“I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.”
Establishing Your Identity
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John 14:6
“Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’”
9 “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.”
1 John 3:1
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!”
PROOF OF IDENTITY
• A Changed Heart!
• Has Lifestyle Based Verification!
• It Witness Verified!
• Knowledge-Based Verification
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Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
What’s To Do Next?
• Embrace that you are secure in Christ.
• Live boldly as His chosen, redeemed, and empowered child.
• Write down who God says you are based on Ephesians.
• Place this list where you can see it daily as a reminder of your true identity.
