Pew2You
Pastor Phil Vance
Cultivating Your God Given Identity
Sept. 4th, 2016
Highlights:
1. How do you cultivate your God given identity?
– know:
1. You are a Christian
2. You are a new Christian
3. You are reconciled to God
4. You are to reconcile others
2. Seek and set your mind on things above.
– The culture of Heaven should inundate us and displace the culture of earth.
3. Remember you are dead.
-We are to be dead here (earth) and alive there (heaven) and then bring what’s there here.
4. Remember that you are hidden with Christ.
Discussion Questions:
1. Pastor Phil said, “We need to know who we are, grow who we are, show who we are to the World!!” When it comes to cultivating your identity in Christ, which of these is God calling you further in?
2. Practicaly speaking, what can be done today to live: dead to this world and alive to heaven?
3. Identity that comes from God is full of promise and destiny. Share together about destiny. What is yours and how does knowing your identity in Christ help you to believe and live your destiny?
Key Scriptures, Definitions 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.
COL 2:8?-?10 ESV
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
2CO 5:17?-?19 ESV
-Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
1CO 6:19?-?20 ESV
-Seek: zeteo – to seek, to worship God.
-Hidden: krupto – to conceal by covering