Your ID Matters // Sunday, August 9, 2020

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Sunday, August 9, 2020

Your ID Matters

1 Peter 2: 9 & 10 (NLT)   …you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light. 10“Once you had no identity as a people; now you are God’s people. Once you received no mercy; now you have received God’s mercy.”

Who you are in Christ…

1. You are accepted.

1 Peter 2: 9 (NLT)  …you are a chosen people

  • I’m accepted because of Jesus.

Titus 3: 7 (NLT)  Because of his grace he made us right in his sight and gave us confidence that we will inherit eternal life.

2. You are valuable

1 Peter 2: 9 (NLT)  … a holy nation, God’s very own possession.

  • You matter to God.

Luke 12: 24 (NLT)  Look at the ravens. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for God feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than any birds!

3. You belong.

1 Peter 1: 10 (NLT)  Once you had no identity as a people; now you are God’s people.

4. You are TOTALLY forgiven.

1 Peter 1: 10 (NLT)  Once you received no mercy; now you have received God’s mercy.

Romans 8: 1 (NLT)  So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.

  • It is God’s nature to forgive.

Isaiah 43: 25 (NLT)  I—yes, I alone—will blot out your sins for my own sake  and will never think of them again.

Ephesians 1: 7 (NLT)  He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins.

5. I am capable.

1 Peter 2: 9 (NLT)  …you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.

Ephesians 3: 5 & 6 (NLT)  It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from God. 6 He has enabled us to be ministers of his new covenant. This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old written covenant ends in death; but under the new covenant, the Spirit gives life.

  • Christ in me makes this possible.

Philippians 4: 13 (NLT)  I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.