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Welcome

I am so excited to be here with you today

God has been doing, is doing, and will continue to use this conference to greater define the masterpiece that you are.

From the begining

Created & Crafted, in Christ Jesus for Good Works

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

declares that humanity has been built with a curiosity for Eternal Things.

He has put eternity in their hearts

He has made everything beautiful in its time.

Also He has put eternity in their hearts

The New King James Version.

(1982).

(Ec 3:11).

Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

This is our Truest Identity

Today I get the privilege to talk to you about Identity

Maybe today will be a redirection

From a selfishly driven identity

To a God Glorifying identity

proclaims that God created us in His own image

27 So God created man in His own image;

That is, that humanity has been created in light of who God is

If you look around

We can proclaim God’s beauty

We can say yes and amen to God’s Diversity

We can say that God is purposeful

However what if we decided to flip the script on that for a second

What if we looked at and saw it as an actionable item

What if we looked at and said

God, you haven’t just created me in your image

God, you want me to bear your image here on this earth

God, you want me to proclaim who you are, in every area of my life

God, you want me to be a representation of who you are, no matter what my surroundings look like.

God, you want to weave the fabric of your identity into my world.

Today may be a revealing of that thing you cant shake

declares that humanity has been built with a curiosity for Eternal Things.

Maybe today, you will have greater clarity of who you really are

He has made everything beautiful in its time.

Also He has put eternity in their hearts

calls us His Poeima, His workmanship, His Masterpiece

Created & Crafted, in Christ Jesus for Good Works

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Maybe, just maybe, today you will make decisions that will cause your potential in Christ to be seen as achieveable

Maybe today we will look at and say “God, I cant, but you can, so Let’s Go”

LET’S READ THE THEME VERSE OF THIS CONFERENCE

13 Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; 14 as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; 15 but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”

In order for this to be achieveable

We need to realize who we are in light of who He is

We need to know the value of this goal

We need to know what its going to cost us

We need to know what its going to take to see this come to pass

Before we can understand what God is trying to do

We must understand from which position He is creating this masterpiece.

We have to know what He is using to shape and mold us as instruments of Grace and Holiness

We have to know where He is coming from, in order to know where we are going

Church, I want to bring greater clarity to your identity in light of the Gospel

My goal today is to equip you to know what is true, and what is truest

I want us to know who we are in the flesh, and who we are called to be in the Spirit

I want us to learn how to wrestle with the process of becoming more like Jesus . . .

of being Holy because He is Holy

I want us to live into our truest identity, while laying aside the conformity that this world is requiring of us.

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2 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Before we can truly look into the purpose by which we were brought into this world

Created & Crafted, in Christ Jesus for Good Works

We must look at the things that have set themselves against that purpose

In order for us to be victorious in all areas of life

We not only have to be willing to fight

We have to know what we are fighting for and what we are fighting against.

WHAT IS TRUE?

In creating this masterpiece, God is working with some inferior materials

For those of you who admit there is a lot of work to be done

We are here to tell you that:

With God all things are possible

That God is with you

Materials that compromise the integrity of the finished product

If God is for you, then who can be against you?

These Bible Truths are encouraging you to

Trust God with and through this process of becoming His Glorious masterpiece

To trust Him throughout the Process of bringing you back to Original Intent.

To trust him in the process of finding the Truest You.

First of all, lets look at how this is achieved:

Qualities that may effect the desired end result

Before we can even begin to value this process we have to realize who we were apart from Jesus

Paul says:

We have to realize that apart from Jesus our lives failed at meeting the goal of 1 Peter 1:13-16

You were dead in your sins and trespasses

You who were dead in your sins and trespasses

You walked according to the course of the World

You walked according to the power of your fleshly desires

You lived out your identity as a child of wrath

THIS IS WHAT IS TRUE

So what is Truer

God, in His Glorious Plan to take something that has no value and make it priceless, does the unthinkable:

God says come and let me flip that script

Let me sing a new song over you

Let us reason together, He says

Though your faults, failures, and your lack of power of meeting my standard of Holiness are undeniable