1. EPHESIANS
Our Unshakable Identity in
Christ

2. I AM

3. WHO DO YOU
THINK
YOU ARE?

4. What is your
IDENTITY?

5. It’s the one thing that
changes everything,
because when you know
who you are, then you
know what to do. If you
don’t know who you are,
then you don’t know what
to do.

6. How do you see
YOURSELF?

7. How does your
IDENTITY alter
and affect your
DESTINY?

8. WHO DOES GOD
SAY
YOU ARE?

9. GENESIS 1:26-28
26 Then God said, “Let us make
mankind in our image, in our
likeness, so that they may
rule over the fish in the sea and
the birds in the sky, over the
livestock and all the wild
animals, and over all the
creatures that move along the
ground.”

10. GENESIS 1:26-28
27 So God
created mankind in His
own image, in the
image of God He
created them; male
and female He created

11. GENESIS 1:26-28
28 God blessed them and said to
them, “Be fruitful and increase
in number; fill the earth and
subdue it. Rule over the fish in
the sea and the birds in the sky
and over every living creature
that moves on the ground.”

12. GENESIS 5:1
1 This is the written
account of Adam’s family
line. When God created
mankind, He made them in
the likeness of God.

13. Who are you? God
says, “I’ve made you in
my image and likeness.”
That’s your identity.
There’s the identity
statement.

14. FOUR THINGS
THAT
GOD SAYS WHO
YOU ARE:

15. 1
YOU ARE A
REVELATION
RECEIVER.

16. That God the Father, God the
Son, God the Spirit have been
communicating with one another
forever, and they make us in their
image and likeness, and they
make us as revelation receivers.
They speak to us - the Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit do. God
speaks to us.

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19. You don’t have to
determine or decide
what your identity is
because God has
already chosen to
reveal it.

20. You must be in the Word of
God and have the Word of
God in you, because you
were created as a revelation
receiver. God wants to
speak to you through His
Word. He wants to hear
from you through prayer.

21. 2
YOU ARE HUMBLY
HONORED.

22. Humility, the root of
which literally means to
know your place, is to
know that your place is
under God, but above
lower creation.

23. 3
YOU ARE MADE TO
MIRROR.

24. WE WERE MADE
TO MIRROR.

25. a
God is loving, and
when we love, we
reflect His love to
others.

26. b
God is truthful. When
we tell the truth, we
reflect His
truthfulness to
others.

27. c
God is forgiving. When
we forgive others,
we’re reflecting His
grace and His mercy
to others.

28. d
God is generous, and
when we’re generous,
we’re reflecting His
generosity to others.

29. So many of our identity
decisions are about, “How
will this make me look?”
That’s the wrong question.
“How could they see God?”
That’s the right question.

30. That is why Jesus is
called the image of
the INVISIBLE GOD.

31. Everything that could be seen
about God’s character is made
visible on the earth through the
life, death, burial, resurrection of
Jesus. He is the image of the
invisible God. If we’ve seen Him,
we’ve seen the Father.

32. 3
YOU ARE
BLESSED TO BE
A BLESSING.

33. Adam and Eve had
not
done anything.
He just blessed them.
They didn’t earn their
blessing.

34. a
Our God is a God
who begins with
blessing.

35. b
Our God is a God
who likes
to bless His people.

36. cOur God is a God who is filled
with grace, and filled with
love, and filled with mercy,
and in an infinitely perfect
way, far superior to mine, He’s
a Father who adores His kids

37. IN FCC, WE ARE
BLESSED TO
BLESS.

38. a
Whatever God
teaches you is so you
might teach others.

39. b
Whatever God gives
you is that you might
give to others.

40. c
Whatever God does
for you is so that you
could learn to do that
for others.

41. TWO THINGS THAT
YOU NEED TO
KNOW ABOUT
OUR IDENTITY:

42. 1
YOUR IDENTITY IS
RECEIVED,
IT IS NOT ACHIEVED.

43. Adam and Eve didn’t do anything
to obtain this identity.
God made them, God spoke to
them, God defined them, and God
blessed them. It’s all God. Your
identity is not achieved, it’s
received. It’s not something you
do, it’s something God does. It’s
not what you earn, it’s what He
gives.

44. 2YOU ARE NOT MORE
VALUABLE THAN ANYONE
ELSE AND YOU ARE NOT
LESS VALUABLE THAN
ANYONE ELSE, AS WELL.

45. All people equally bear
the image and likeness
of God.
One of the great lies is
that some people are
more valuable than
others.

46. Your net worth has
nothing to do with
your self-worth.

47. WHO DOES
SATAN SAY YOU
ARE?

48. Genesis 3
Satan tells us who he
thinks God is and
who he thinks
we are.

49. An angel who was,
according to the Bible,
dissatisfied with their
identity. Their identity was
created and under God to
serve God.

50. Angels are created as
messengers and ministers of
God, and the Bible says that
Satan was an angel who became
proud in his heart. He didn’t want
to be under God, he wanted to be
alongside of God or over God. He
didn’t want to obey God, he
wanted to do what he wanted to
do.

51. The Bible says
repeatedly that he’s a
liar, he’s a deceiver, and
he’s a killer.

52. GENESIS 3:1
1 Now the serpent was more
crafty than any of the wild
animals the LORD God had
made. He said to the woman,
“Did God really say, ‘You must
not eat from any tree in the
garden’?”

53. But the first thing he does
is he questions the
authority of the Word of
God.
Satan is always going to
question the clarity and
the authority of the Word
of God.

54. GENESIS 3:5
5 “For God knows that
when you eat of it your
eyes will be opened, and
you will be …”
What?
“LIKE GOD”

55. Satan erodes their
confidence in the
Word of God and lies
to them.

56. IDENTITY
IDOLATRY

57. EZEKIEL 14:4
4 Therefore speak to them and tell
them, ‘This is what the
Sovereign LORD says: When any of
the Israelites set up idols in their
hearts and put a wicked stumbling
block before their faces and then go
to a prophet, I the LORD will answer
them myself in keeping with their
great idolatry.

58. 1
Idolatry is when we
take a good thing and
we make it a God thing,
which is a bad thing.

59. 2
Idolatry is when we take
a created thing and we
put it in the Creator’s
place.

60. 3
Idolatry is when we live
for something or
someone other than
Jesus.

61. 4Idolatry is when our identity, our
hope, our joy, who we want to be,
and who we want others to
perceive us to be is something
achieved, by us or others, and not
received from Him.

62. 5
The Bible says it has two
categories:
worshippers and
idolaters.

63. ROMANS 1:25
25 They exchanged the
truth about God for a
lie, and worshiped and
served created
things rather than the
Creator—who is forever
praised. Amen.

64. DIFFERENT
CATEGORIES OF
I. D. O. L. S.

65. Idols make promises
they never keep. Lies
never bring life, they
only bring death.

66. ITEMS
So, you’re your own
idol. All you care
about is what you
think about yourself.

67. DUTIES
Again, idols can be good
things in a God place, which is
a bad thing.
If your identity is in your duty,
you try to find your thing.

68. WHO YOU ARE
DETERMINES WHAT
YOU DO.

69. OTHERS
“If you will idolize, you will
demonize.”

70. PROVERBS 29:25
25 Fear of man will
prove to be a snare,
but whoever trusts in
the LORD is kept safe.

71. LONGINGS

72. SUFFERINGS

73. UNDERSTANDING
YOUR IDENTITY
CRISIS

74. Most of us don’t even
know we have an
identity idolatry until
we have a crisis.

75. 1
You live in fear that
your identity idolatry
will fail you or be taken
from you.

76. 2
Your identity idolatry
crumbles under the
weight of being in
God’s place in your life.

77. 3
When your identity
idolatry begins to
crumble, you become
panicked.

78. JESUS AND HIS
PEOPLE

79. That’s all that ultimately
matters in the end,
and the only thing that
will be together forever
is Jesus and His
people.