Know Your Story

Finding Our Story

Phil 3 - we have no story until Christ.

No identity, no individualism until Christ

In Christ we find our story

2 Corinthians 5:17 HCSB

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.

Knowing Your Story

Paul has returned to Jerusalem - seen as a traitor

false accusations, grabbed him,

Damascus road moment - we all have a moment when we have to decide - surrender

Knowing Your Story

vs 6-9 - confronting - realize who is God and who is not

personal - just you and your decision

vs 10 - no longer my plans - going to Damascus to lead away, now he had to be lead there

surrender = trust

Knowing Your Story

vs 11-16 - trust must equal action and obedience

vs 17-21 - as we obey we find our purpose and mission

We have a Story

not about us

Galatians 2:20 HCSB

and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

We have a Story

worth telling

Romans 1:16 HCSB

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.

We have a Story

Unifinished

Philippians 3:12 HCSB

Not that I have already reached the goal or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

We have a Story

"Withhold no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know and declare what you have seen. Do not allow the toil or darkness or possible unbelief of your friends to dissuade you. Let us rise and march to the place of duty, and there declare what great things God has shown to our soul." Alistair Begg