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Relationships - Part One: Understanding Who You Are
The Bible teaches us mainly about two things....
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The first is our relationship with God.
2. The second is our relationship with one another.
Basically, Every book in the Bible deals with these two relationships.
This morning , I am beginning a new series concerning our relationship with ourselves and with others.
We are going to address relationships that deal with the husband, the wife, friends, and family, communication...but I want to begin this series by talking about understanding yourself!
The first key to understanding yourself is to understand...
· Who you are.
· Where you come from.
· Where you are going.
· What your purpose is.
...before you can be successful in any relationship...you must be able to understand yourself!
Before you can be successful in your relationship with God you must be able to understand yourself!
Tell the person next to you..."I am about to find out who I am."
The Bible says....
James 1:17-18
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
James, Jesus' half brother, wrote this.
Very quickly in his writings, he begins to talk about who we are....
· He begins by stating, "Every perfect gift is from above, from God the one who created light, and from the one who can never change."
James is setting up his next statement in this verse.
In the very next verse, James says, "God brought us to life by His word, and we became His most precious possession."
In two verses, James tells you who you are, and where you came from!
God brought you into this world.
It doesn't matter what the earthly circumstances of your birth were.
You were not a mistake.
You were not an accident.
God put you right where you are for a purpose.
God brought you into this world.
That's where you came from!
· The Bible says that you are a perfect gift from above.
That cannot change.
There is no variableness or shadow of turning about that!
You are the most prized possession of God.
You are the apple of His eye.
That is who you are today!
Somebody say, "I know who I am!"
Then James goes on to say that it is not good enough to hear who we are, but we must become who we were born to be!
James 1:22-25
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
There is a lot to swallow in those four verses!
James makes it easy for us to understand though...he compares it to looking in the mirror.
How many of you like to look in the mirror?
Don't raise your hand.
o The mirror doesn't lie...it tells the truth every time.
I liked the mirror a lot more when I was 25 than I do today.
I looked in the mirror a lot in those days...
I did my hair.
Shaved.
o Brushed my teeth.
o Tied my tie.
And then I stepped back to admire the beautiful sight...just kidding.
Then I walked away and came back five minutes later to make sure everything was just right...like the mirror was lying to me or something.
Don't laugh at me, you know exactly what I am talking about!
Some of you go back to the mirror seven, eight, nine and ten times before you leave the house.
It is like you forgot what you looked like ten minutes earlier.
That is exactly James' point...
James 1:23-24
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
The reason that some of us struggle so much in our relationships, is because we forget who we are...
o I can preach to you about being the prize of God's possession till I am blue in the face.
o You can hear me and agree with me all night long.
Don't forget who you are when the enemy starts messing with you...it is not going to do you any good.
James says, some of us are like that person who constantly has to look in the mirror to make sure they are good enough.
You know what your problem is?
o Some you have forgotten what you look like!
o Some of you have forgotten who your father is!
o Some of you don't remember where you came from!
It is time for to go beyond the hearing, and start believing.
It is time for somebody to start becoming who you are.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
James said, don't look in the mirror, look in the word...the word is your mirror!
Take it to the next level...don't just hear the preacher, but believe him and put it into action!
o You are the apple of God's eye.
o You are the crown of His creation.
o You are not an accident.
o God didn't make any mistakes.
o You are a perfect gift from God.
o Satan has no power over you.
o The enemy can't mess with you...Unless you let him.
Does that make sense?
Since you are a perfect gift from God, it is important to understand that you are unique!
There ain't nobody else like you in this entire world!
David said...
o You were fearfully and wonderfully made.
o God knows every part of you...everything about you was recorded while you were in the womb.
Not only are you unique in creation, you are unique in purpose.
God has a unique purpose for your life!
Nobody can take your place...You are unique.
Nobody can talk like you...you are unique.
Nobody can sing like you...you are unique.
We were created for the glory of God!
God's glory is the beauty and power of His Spirit.
We were created then to show God's glory...his beauty and his power...to all of the Earth.
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