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FREEDOM TRAINING

FREEDOM TRAINING. Worth & Identity. Overview. Identity Children, co-heirs, servants, friends, royalty,… Wrong identity Works, education, pride, self-hate,… Abuse, neglect, life circumstances. VALUE & WORTH. Relational: worth and identity.

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FREEDOM TRAINING

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  1. FREEDOM TRAINING Worth & Identity

  2. Overview • Identity • Children, co-heirs, servants, friends, royalty,… • Wrong identity • Works, education, pride, self-hate,… • Abuse, neglect, life circumstances

  3. VALUE & WORTH

  4. Relational: worth and identity • Both worth and identity are defined best relationally (us and God) • There are many that try to discover their worth and identity outside of God • Incomplete: “I am worth it” and “I deserved to be loved well” • Complete: “I am worth it because I am created in the image of God, additionally Christ set my value with His blood” and “I deserve to be loved well because I was created by a loving Father to be in a loving relationship with Him” • As His creation, He defines us (identity) and valuates us (worth)

  5. Worth: created ones • All humans (believers and unbelievers) were created by God in His image (before the fall); humans are a special creation • “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Gen 1:27 • God created according to His will • “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things,and by your will they existed and were created.” Rev 4:11

  6. Worth: created us • “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance.” Ps 139:13-15 • Fearfullly and wonderfully made: if you have a birth defect, this should be attributed to the fall or satan, but not God

  7. Worth: Christ’s blood • Our value is also determined by how much we cost: Christ’s blood • “For God so loved the world,that he gave his only Son” John 3:16 • “knowing that you were ransomed… not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.” I Pet 1:18-19 • “For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:7-8

  8. Value of human life • Value of human life is worth Jesus’ blood… • “And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man... ’Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.’” Gen 9:5-6 • “We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous…Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.” I John 3:12,15 • “For the commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,’ and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” Rom 13:9

  9. Worth: continuing love • God’s ongoing love: • “Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.” Romans 8:34 • “the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God” Romans 8:27 • “And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” Col 1:17

  10. Group repentance: murder • Black and white: Murder, genocide, infanticide, abortion, euthanasia, suicide • Gray areas (talk it out with God) • Removing life support or feeding tubes • Population control (world claims: people are the problem with the earth, it would be better off without us) • Certain forms of birth control (cause silent abortion) Repent – change your mind and actions to be in line with God’s • “God we agree with you that life is valuable. We ask for forgiveness for all the times we have devalued others. We specifically repent of any murder or thoughts of hate towards those made in your image. I repent of ever agreeing with the enemy of worthlessness and purposelessness.”

  11. IDENTITY

  12. Relational Identity • Our spiritual identity is defined from relationship with God • Father and child, Christ and co-heir • Creator and created ones • Friends • King and royal priesthood • Bridegroom and bride • Lover and beloved • Master and servant • Commander and army • The righteousness of Christ • Created in God’s image • Temple of the Holy Spirit

  13. Identity: children of God and co-heirs with Christ • “But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God” John 1:12 • “For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.” Romans 8:15-17 • “For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.” Romans 8:19

  14. Identity: royal priesthood • “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” I Peter 2:9 • “Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.” I Peter 2:11 • “Jesus Christ … made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever.” Rev 1:5-6 • “you [Jesus] ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God,and they shall reign on the earth.” Rev 5:9-10

  15. Identity: friends of Christ • “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.” John 15:13-16

  16. Identities of the church • Body of Christ: “And he is the head of the body, the church.” Col 1:18 • Bride of Christ: “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.” Eph 5:25-27 • Army of God: “Put on the whole armor of God…” Eph 6:11 • Family of God: “For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens,but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.” Eph 2:18-19 • Temple of the Holy Spirit: “do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit…” I Cor 6:19

  17. Spiritual identity • ”There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.” Gal 3:28-29 • Our primary linage is spiritual (Abraham) •  ”While he [Jesus] was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him.But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.” Matthew 12:46-50

  18. Identity • Spiritual identity before physical identity • “But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.’” I Sam 16:7 • “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.” Rev 5:9-10 • Our gifts and callings are not our identity • “Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.” I Cor 13:8

  19. Levels of Identity • Primary identity: deepest identity is found in relationship: son/daughter, creation of God, co-heir with Christ, royalty, and friend of God • Secondary identity (possibly wrong identities) • Ethnicity, culture, nationality, genealogy,… • Gender, sexual orientation, marital status, • Performance: vocation, education level, boss, successful, sin/addiction, … • Physical body: beauty, strength, capabilities, weakness, DNA,… • Emotional makeup: personality type, leader, introvert, bossy,… • Mind: intellect, smart, stupid,… • Brokenness: our sin, addiction, disability, illness, victim, orphan, lie… • Roles: giftings, callings, roles in the church, or mother, father, eldest child,…

  20. Wrong identity • “I’m Irish, we fight” or “my people are stubborn; thus I am” • “I hate my own gender” or “it is in my DNA to be this way” • “I am a man and therefore lust” or “women are just good at being bitter” • “I am an alcoholic” or “I am a sinner” (correct: “I was a sinner”) • “I am ugly” or “stupid” • I am defined by my illness or disability – “I am deaf” • “I will never measure up” • “I am a victim” or “I am powerless” or “I am an orphan” • “I am an introvert and therefore bad (unloving) with people”

  21. No arguing with God • We have no right to disapprove of what God made • “Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’? Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’” Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him: “Ask me of things to come;  will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands?I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.” Is 45:9-12 • (Fearfullly and wonderfully made: if you have a birth defect, this should be attributed to the fall or satan, but not God)

  22. Critical judgments (word curses) Disapproving of what God made • In the future, Satan “the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.” Rev 12:10 • “But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.” Col 3:8 • Negative self talk and self condemnation (beating up oneself) (“Look at yourself, you are so fat” … is not motivational speech) Confess and repent • What do you say about yourself that is derogatory? appearance, temperament, personality… (is that what God is saying about you?) • Parent: “that kid is so strong-willed” (not meant in a good way)

  23. Attacked Identity Our agreement with the critical words/actions is what matters • “Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.” Prov 26:2 • If we are secure in our identity then other’s words/actions have little effect • Adults may not agree with everything said about them or done to them • Childhood abuse (while identity is still forming) • physical, mental, emotional abuse, neglect, rejection, critical words, … • can deeply define who we are (I am a bad or dirty child, not worth healthy love, small, insignificant, victim,…). We believe lies about ourselves…

  24. Broken identity: broken world • Childhood trauma • Death of a loved one (parent) • Divorce of parents • Abuse (physical, sexual, emotional, mental,…) • Neglected or orphaned • Rejection – 1000 slights or one time action • Inner vows as a child – never get hurt again, never trust anyone, be self reliant,… • Circumstances define us (discern circumstances, not all are from God)

  25. Missing Identity • Where are the areas that true identity has not been instilled and formed in you? (abuse, neglect, family beliefs,…) • Insecurity, powerless, unloved, unworthy, untrusting, self-abasing,… • Prideful, arrogant, believe too much of yourself,… • How do we work with God to get solid identity in Him? • Renew our minds daily (or more often) • Meditate and memorize Biblical the identity statements (do art about them, write about them,…) • Review childhood circumstances with Christ’s perspective of us

  26. Questions • Relationship with God • Do you ever feel you aren't good enough to meet His standards? • Do you see Him as a loving father or a dictator? • Do you feel God's love in your life? • Do you feel like your sins are forgiven? Or do you feel guilty? • Do you feel that God is angry or upset with you? • Works • Do you believe that it's only by the Blood of Jesus that your sins are forgiven? Or do you feel you need to earn your forgiveness in any way? • Do you feel that doing good things, you earn God's love and acceptance?

  27. Identity statements • Time to memorize some identity statements and make them your new internal dialog. Anything competing with these ideas need to be tossed out immediately. • “I am a child of God and dearly beloved” and “the opinions of man will never matter as much as my heavenly Father’s thoughts toward me which are innumerable” and “I am royalty” • “I have been washed clean by the blood of Jesus and I will not be reminded of my past” • “What people did to me was wrong but I forgive them” (ask Jesus to show you the situation with Him in it) • “I am never alone or forgotten” and “I have a new spiritual family with many brothers and sisters to love” and “I am a co-heir with Christ” • “I am capable and powerful with the Holy Spirit in me”

  28. Activation: Identity • Is my God given identity my primary internal voice? (“I am a child of God, dearly beloved” “I have been fully washed by His blood and am clean”) • Is my spiritual identity more important than cultural, family, or gender identity? • Where has my identity been lost or stolen? • What situations in life have I let define me? (powerless, insignificant, pride,…) • What did people do to me or say to me or the way they treated me that made me believe something contrary to what God thinks about me? • Are there failures that I let define me? (loser, not capable, failure,…) • Are there successes (career, education, spouse,…) that have redefined my identity? Should my identity be wrapped in these fleeting things?

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