Being transformed in your mind (Romans12) means rethinking your self image. Those who have placed their trust in Jesus are in Christ. This is a fundamental change. Our identity is now who we are in Christ. The New testament has many descriptions of who we are in Christ and we need to live on the basis of these statements and not by what the world tells us were are or should be.

1. Who I Am In Christ
Part 1
• Bible Readings:
• Genesis 2:19-3:13 (Page 2)
• John 1:19-28 (page 750)1
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2. • If someone asks you to pray for them, do
you feel unsure about praying?
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3. • If someone asks you to pray for them, do
you feel unsure about praying?
• If you sense that there is some sort evil
spirit in your house, do you feel you lack
the confidence to command it to go?
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4. • If someone asks you to pray for them, do
you feel unsure about praying?
• If you sense that there is some sort evil
spirit in your house, do you feel you lack
the confidence to command it to go?
• Do you feel as though you are unworthy
to ask God for something?
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5. • Do you find it hard to accept that God has
forgiven you?
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6. • Do you find it hard to accept that God has
forgiven you?
• Do you think of yourself as a sinner who is
always falling short of the sort of person
God expects you to be?
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7. • Do you find it hard to accept that God has
forgiven you?
• Do you think of yourself as a sinner who is
always falling short of the sort of person
God expects you to be?
• Do you find it hard to think of yourself as a
holy person, a saint?
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8. Two things the devil does
not want you to know:
• Who God is
• who you are in Christ
If you know Who God is
you know the devil has no
power over you.
If you know who you are in
Christ you are a threat to
the devil’s power.
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9. Being a Christian is not just getting something;
it is being someone.
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10. Being a Christian is not just getting something;
it is being someone.
• “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has
gone, the new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17, NIV84)
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11. Being a Christian is not just getting something;
it is being someone.
• “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has
gone, the new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17, NIV84)
• A Christian is not someone who just
- receives forgiveness,
- goes to heaven,
- receives the Holy Spirit.
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12. Being a Christian is not just getting something;
it is being someone.
• “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has
gone, the new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17, NIV84)
• A Christian is not someone who just
- receives forgiveness,
- goes to heaven,
- receives the Holy Spirit.
• A Christian is a child of God
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13. Being a Christian is not just getting something;
it is being someone.
• “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has
gone, the new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17, NIV84)
• A Christian is not someone who just
- receives forgiveness,
- goes to heaven,
- receives the Holy Spirit.
• A Christian is a child of God
“See what kind of love the Father has given to
us, that we should be called children of God;
and so we are.” (1 John 3:1, ESV)
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14. As A Believer:
• You are a divine masterpiece,
“For we are God’s masterpiece. He
has created us anew in Christ
Jesus, so we can do the good things
He planned for us long ago.”
(Ephesians 2:10, NLT)
• You are a citizen of heaven and a
saint (one who is holy).
• “So then you are no longer
strangers and aliens, but you are
fellow citizens with the saints and
members of the household of God.”
(Ephesians 2:19, ESV)
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15. “Now may the God of peace
make you holy in every way, and
may your whole spirit and soul
and body be kept blameless
until our Lord Jesus Christ
comes again.”
(1 Thessalonians 5:23, NLT)
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spirit
soul
body
Man has three parts to his nature:
Body, Soul and Spirit
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16. • “For the word of God is alive and
powerful. It is sharper than the
sharpest two-edged sword, cutting
between soul and spirit, between
joint and marrow. It exposes our
innermost thoughts and
desires.” (Hebrews 4:12, NLT)
• The spirit is what God breathed
into man to make him spiritually
alive
• “And the Lord God formed man of
the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath
of life; and man became a living
being.” (Genesis 2:7, NKJV)
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spirit
body
W
ill
Emotion
Mind
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17. Before the Fall
• Perfect harmony within themselves
• With each other
• With God
• All needs were satisfied
• No fears
• No insecurities
After the Fall
• Spiritually dead
• Lost the knowledge of God
• Needs were met only with effort
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18. • Underlying feelings of rejection and
failure. Therefore we have a strong
underlying desire and need to
belong and be successful.
• Underlying sense of guilt and
unworthiness. Therefore we are
filled with a lack of self-worth.
• Underlying feeling of not being able
control what happens to us.
Therefore we want strength and
self-control.
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What the fall means for us
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19. • The essence of sin is living
independently of God and
doing things "my way".
• “All we like sheep have gone
astray; We have turned, every
one, to his own way;And the
Lord has laid on Him the
iniquity of us all.”
(Isaiah 53:6, NKJV)
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20. • Jesus is the Giver of life.
• “ I have come that they may have
life, and that they may have it more
abundantly.” (John 10:10, NKJV)
• “And I give them eternal life, and
they shall never perish; neither shall
any one snatch them out of My
hand.” (John 10:28, NKJV)
• “Jesus said to her,“I am the
resurrection and the life. He who
believes in Me, though he may die,
he shall live.” (John 11:25, NKJV)
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What happens when you become
a believer?
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21. • We become a "new creation"
in Christ.
• “Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creation; the
old has gone, the new has
come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17,
NIV84)
• All the things that were lost at
the fall begin to be restored.
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What happens when you become
a believer?
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22. •“For He has rescued us from the
dominion of darkness and brought us
into the kingdom of the Son He loves,”
(Colossians 1:13, NIV84)
•Nothing can push you "out" of Christ.
•“And I give them eternal life, and they
shall never perish; neither shall anyone
snatch them out of My hand.”
(John 10:28, NKJV)
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We are a "New Creation" - in Christ.
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23. •In Christ - all that the Bible says
you are in Christ is true.
•You are a child of God -
because you are in Christ.
•You are God's masterpiece -
because you are in Christ.
•You are a saint, you are holy -
because you are in Christ.
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We are a "New Creation" - in Christ.
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