- Identity theft: someone takes over and uses your identity in order to spend your money
and act in your name.
  1. The Lord's Identity
    2.
    1. The importance of the identity question - Matt. 16:13-16
    2. Identity and who I am - Matt. 16:13-15
    3. Identity is a matter of revelation - Matt. 16:16-18; Gal. 1:15-16
    4. The rock foundation of identity - Matt. 16:18-19; Rom. 8:15-17

  2. Believer's Identity
    3.
    1. The eternal nature of our identity - Eph. 1:3-6
    2. Our identity defined in eternity - Rom. 8:28-30; 2 Tim. 1:9
    3. Our identity is wrapped up with the Triune God - John 14:20; 17:20-23
    4. There is only one kind of identity - 1 Cor. 12:12-13; Gal. 3:26-28 - one Christ - one Person / many members.
    5. Our identity and the deep significance of baptism - Rom. 6:1-5 - Baptized into our identity!

  3. Statements Revealing Our Identity
    4.
    1. "Because I live, you will live also." - John 14:19
    2. "Even as He is, so also are we in this world." - 1 John 4:17
    3. "And you are in Him, having been completely filled full with the present result that you are in a state of fullness, in Him Who is the Head of all principality and authority." - Col. 2:10
    4. "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." - Gal. 2:20
    5. 14 "For the love of Christ constrains us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again. 16 Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." - 2 Cor. 5:14-17
    6. "Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God." - Col. 3:2-3
    7. "But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of teaching to which you were handed over to." - Rom. 6:17

  4. Identity with Christ in His economy
    5.
    1. Embedded in His eternal covenant - Heb. 13:20-21; 1 Cor. 2:7
    2. Embedded in His crucifixion - Rom. 6:3-7; Gal. 2:20; Col. 2:11
    3. Embedded in His burial - Col. 2:12; Rom. 6:4
    4. Embedded in His resurrection - Rom. 6:4-5, 8-10; Col. 2:12; 3:1 Eph. 2:5-6
    5. Embedded in His ascension - Eph. 2:6-7
    6. Embedded "in Christ" of the new creation - 2 Cor. 5:14-18a

  5. The Threats to our Identity
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    1. Ignorance - Rom. 6:3; 7:1; 10:3
    2. Identity and thoughts - 2 Cor. 10:2-6
    3. Identity and feelings - Gal. 5:24-25
    4. Identity and stubbornness - Ezek. 36:26-27
    5. Identity and weakness - Matt. 26:41
    6. Discerning our identity by the Word - Heb. 4:12

  6. Continuously Discovering our Identity
    7.
    1. The structure for our identity - 1 Thess. 5:23
    2. The hiddenness of our identity - Col. 3:3
    3. Knowing - Rom. 6:6
    4. Reckoning - Rom. 6:11
    5. Presenting - Rom. 6:13, 19
    6. Identity and the indicative mood - Rom. 6:2-8
    7. Identity and the imperative mood - Rom. 6:11-19
    8. Connecting with the identity realm - Rom. 8:8-17
    9. Our identity and our destiny - Eph. 1:13-14; 4:30
    10. Our identity and our daily life - Eph. 4:30-32
    11. Our identity enjoyed in the foretaste - Eph. 1:13-14; 2 Cor. 1:22

  7. Identity with Christ in His Body
    8.
    1. Understanding the image of God - Gen. 1:26-28; 5:1-2
    2. Christ being the image of God with His Body - Col. 1:15, 18; 3:10-11
    3. The anatomy of our corporate identity - Eph. 2:13-16
    4. Keeping our identity by holding the Head - Col. 2:19
    5. Baptism and our corporate identity - 1 Cor. 12:12-13; Gal. 3:26-28; Matt. 28:19-20; John 17:20-23

  8. Different Ways of Relating to Your Identity
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    1. Beloved and called ("you also") - Rom. 1:6-7
    2. Letting your identity with Christ shape you - Rom. 6:17 (ignorant v. 3; slaves of sin vv. 6, 17; weak flesh v. 19; addicted v. 19; ashamed v. 21)
    3. Letting your identity with Christ free you from condemnation - Rom. 8:1-2 (fleshly, defeated, wretched man vv. 15-24)
    4. Letting your identity in Christ turn you to Christ as everything and His deposit of grace - 1 Cor. 1:2-8, 30 (problems, soulish, fleshly)
    5. Letting your identity with Christ cause you to flee temptation - 1 Cor. 6:9-11, 15-20 (sexual sins)
    6. Letting your identity with Christ define you - 1 Cor. 12:12-14 (race, culture, division, cliquish, independent)
    7. Letting your identity with Christ motivate you - 2 Cor. 2:10-11; Matt. 18:21-22 (forgiving in the Person Christ)

    - Bill Freeman
    Spokane, 3/11/07