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Pastor Mike Jones

2. Scripture Reading: Romans 8:1
Wednesday February 8, 2017
Scripture Reading:
Romans 8:1

3.   There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

4. Today’s Subject: The BORN-IDENTITY

6. Spiritual IDENTITY is the key that unlocks the door of victory in every area of your life!

8. I. IDENTITY is by BIRTH 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope  1 Peter 1:3

9.  23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; 1 Peter 1:23

10. II. Identity comes from BRAND NEW NATURE

11. 3 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 

12. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. 2 Peter 1:3-4

13. III. Identity Must be BELIEVED!

14. 1. I AM COMPLETELY ACCEPTED! 9 But you are a chosen race 1 Peter 2:9

15. 2. I AM EXTREMELY Valuable
 2. I AM EXTREMELY Valuable!  a holy nation, a people for his own possession,  vs. 9

16.  3. I AM EXTERNALLY LOVED 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; vs. 10

17.  4. I AM TOTALLY FORGIVEN once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. vs. 10

18.  5. I AM FULLY Capable! a royal priesthood that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

21. I AM set free from the SENTENCE of sin vs
 I AM set free from the SENTENCE of sin vs. 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus

22. I AM set free from the SLAVERY of sin vs
 I AM set free from the SLAVERY of sin vs. 2 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

23. I AM set free from the Sickness of sin vs
 I AM set free from the Sickness of sin vs  For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do.

24. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

25. I AM indwelt by the Spirit of God vs
 I AM indwelt by the Spirit of God vs. 9 9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 

26.  I AM a Son of God vs. 14 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 

27. Connection that can’t be destroyed vs. 35
I HAVE a I
Connection that can’t be destroyed vs. 35
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

28. I Have a I
Confidence that can’t be defeated vs
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

29. I Have a I
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

30. Conclusion that can’t be denied vs. 38-39
I Have a I
Conclusion that can’t be denied vs
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

31. I Have a I
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.