Who Are You?
Highlights:
1. Beware, the enemy is trying to steal your identity.
2. When good is contrasted with bad it looks great. But when good is contrasted with better or best it doesn’t look so good anymore.
3. In Christ, we are made new everyday. Enjoy it.
Discussion Questions:
1. Pastor Phil talked about the dangerous distraction a cell phone can be to someone walking. In comparison, identify together some distractions that are dangerous to your walk with God.
2. Good is not from God when it is not time for it. How do we identify God’s timing for the good things so that we are not decieved by good at the wrong time?
3. What does it take to recover your identity spiritually? Discuss what it is like yo be made new in Christ, restored after our identity has been stolen.
Key Scriptures and Quotes:
-See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
Colossians 2:8-10 ESV
Beware: blepo – to look at.
Cheat: to seduce (to lead astray usually by false promises….)
-So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
Genesis 3:6 ESV
-So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV