Who am I? created by God
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Who am I?
Who am I?
What are reasons that people Date?
Who are you?
to feel value
What makes us who we are?
to fit in
what defines us?
tWhat are the different voices that tell us who we are?
What has the most weight?
"The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard told a story of thieves who broke into a jewelry store and didn't steal anything; they simply rearranged the price tags. The next morning, the expensive jewelry was sold as junk, and the junk jewelry was sold as expensive. His point is obvious. We live in a world where someone has rearranged the price tags.
We are created-
We are created-
"Nowhere is this switching of price tags more evident than in the area of self-esteem. In our culture, people are valued for how they look, what they can do or even what they have, but rarely for who they are. In our world, you have to be beautiful by mathematical standards (and yes there is a formula for beauty—it's all about ratios), entertaining (not talented, but entertaining), and if you are not, the world has no place for you. If you can't make the Top 100 in the world on some list, you are nothing.
God Cre
Ps 139
For the choir director. A psalm of David.
Lord, you have searched me and known me.
You know when I sit down and when I stand up;
you understand my thoughts from far away.
You observe my travels and my rest;
you are aware of all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue,
you know all about it, Lord.
You have encircled me;
you have placed your hand on me.
This wondrous knowledge is beyond me.
It is lofty; I am unable to reach it.
Where can I go to escape your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to heaven, you are there;
if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.
If I live at the eastern horizon
or settle at the western limits,
even there your hand will lead me;
your right hand will hold on to me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me,
and the light around me will be night”—
even the darkness is not dark to you.
The night shines like the day;
darkness and light are alike to you.
For it was you who created my inward parts;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I will praise you
because I have been remarkably and wondrously made.
Your works are wondrous,
and I know this very well.
My bones were not hidden from you
when I was made in secret,
when I was formed in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw me when I was formless;
all my days were written in your book and planned
before a single one of them began.
God, how precious your thoughts are
to me;
how vast their sum is!
If I counted them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand;
when I wake up, I am still with you.
God, if only you would kill the wicked—
you bloodthirsty men, stay away from me—
who invoke you deceitfully.
Your enemies swear by you falsely.
Lord, don’t I hate those who hate you,
and detest those who rebel against you?
I hate them with extreme hatred;
I consider them my enemies.
Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my concerns.
See if there is any offensive way in me;
lead me in the everlasting way.
The Teacher’s Bible Commentary A Tribute to the Greatness of God (Psalm 139)
The passage.—This psalm is a personal meditation addressed to God. It consists of four stanzas: verses 1–6, 7–12, 13–18, and 19–24. Each stanza magnifies an awesome characteristic of God. The respective characteristics are perfect knowledge, universal presence, sovereign control, and moral constraint.
We are created beings-
We are created beings-
David is thinking about God and out comes
Verse- “ Before a word is on my tongue, you know all about it, Lord
Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
It is Absolute Knowledge that God has-
meaning He doesn’t learn He knows
God knows us
Verse 1 you searched me and know me:
Then David goes on to show how much God truly knows about:
When I sit
when I stand
you know my thoughts
you are aware of all my ways
David end with “this knowledge is beyond me.”
Where can I go to escape your presence?
Where can I go to escape your presence?
God is not limited to time and space-He created them
He created them
There is nowhere that we can go and God is not there or unaware of where we are
Paul says “Nothing can separate us for the love of God.”
Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Romans 8:
Paul answers this question with:
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:
God is with us and God Knows us-
We are created beings-
We are created beings-
God Created
God is the divine architect of our lives
The Teacher’s Bible Commentary A Tribute to the Greatness of God (Psalm 139)
Special points.—The psalmist declared that God knew all about him. Furthermore, God cared for him with precious and numberless thoughts.
For it was you who created my inward parts;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I will praise you
because I have been remarkably and wondrously made.
Your works are wondrous,
and I know this very well.
My bones were not hidden from you
when I was made in secret,
when I was formed in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw me when I was formless;
all my days were written in your book and planned
before a single one of them began.
David says you “knit” or “woven”
By using these terms David pictures himself as a fine piece of art and God as a skilled craftmans
When you look at your life how do you see yourself?
How do you see God in your life?
God never Changes-
God never Changes-
we change all the time-
situation cause us to change
people cause us to change
But God is the divine artist of our life:
He formed you
He Knows you
He is with you
He love you
Think of the creation story-
God creates everything in this world, like a master artist He paints the skies, the stars, the mountains, the oceans, the trees and the animals, the fish in the sea
All things we pay to see at zoo and aquariums
on vacation to tropical place or to the mountains
God creates everything that amazes us
Then He creates man am women-
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”
So God created man in his own image;
he created him in the image of God;
he created them male and female.
So God created man in his own image;
he created him in the image of God;
he created them male and female.
We are imagine bearers of God
After the creation of Man and women it is then that God declares “It is very Good”
We have many voices that try to speak into our lives, bu there is one that trumps them all and that is the one who formed us, who “knitted” us together.
The God who made us in His imagine-
The Hardest thing for us
The Hardest thing for us
is to take God at His word-
When we see ourselves other then what God says, what does that say about how we hold God’s word?
is it in High value in our lives?
God’s word trumps all
our family life
our feelings
our school life
our emtions
our lusts
our dating habits
God is the artist who created us- He Speaks of who we are
and if it doesn’t line up with God’s word than it is a lie!
Paul asked “What can separate us?”
David answered “there is nowhere I can go to escape your presence.”
Even darkness and light are the same to you
The God who created us in His imagine the God who stands with us at all times
David- “If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.”
Sheol- The grave, or where the dead reside
Who am I?
Who am I?
The
The gospel message- You are loved, you have eternal value
The cross speaks of that-
God has shown the price of your life- the tags might be switch by society, but God designed the work!
He knows