Knowing Who You Are
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Happy Father’s Day
Happy Father’s Day
The relationships we have are important
The relationships we have are important
Achor Relationships connects us to our Culture
++Fathers
++Mothers
Sibling relationships connect us to our History
++Sister
++Brother
Support relationships connect us us to our character
++Friends
++Foes
Relationships reveal
++Identity
++Heratage
++Legacy
You are a part of something bigger
++God’s Dream
++God’s Vision
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Jesus was motivated by
++Joy set before him
++He saw beyond the present
++He saw beyond the pain
“True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience.”
Excerpt From Spiritual Leadership by J. Oswald Sanders
Everyone needs a vision
Everyone needs a vision
18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: But he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
A vision
++Drive us
++Motivates us
++Propels us
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, But at the end it shall speak, and not lie: Though it tarry, wait for it; Because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Vision anchors itself in destiny
++Where you are going
++Regardless of where we start
We all start In the same place
We all start In the same place
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
We Are
++Sinners
1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
We Are
Sinners
++Servants of God
In the same place
In a place of humility
Lost
17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
We all start
Unaware of our worth
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; Neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, And your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
God is able
++To Save us
++To Hear us
When God is hidden
++Our prayers are not heard
++We do not pray
Our sins
++Do not hinder God
++Do not limit God
++Keep us from seeing God
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, And your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
We declare
++God is here
++God is at work
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
We Are
Sinners
Servants of God
++Students of the Holy Ghost
A Tutor provides instruction
A Governor provides guidance
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
The Father decides
The Father decides
The Holy Ghost
++Will teach you
++Help you remember
15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
We Are
Sinners
Servants of God
Students of the Holy Ghost
++Friends of God
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
We Are
Sinners
Servants of God
Students of the Holy Ghost
Friends of God
++Sons of God
1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
The devil tested his Identity
++Do something
++Risk something
++Desire something
Jesus past the test
++He declared something
++He spoke the word of God
In this life we will be challenged
In this life we will be challenged
Our response must be the word of God
++Not my feeling
++Not my rage
++Not my emotions