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	Who are you? © Pastor John Stemmons, Amazing Grace Church, Fujisawa, Japan, 033108
	You cannot know yourself, until you know Jesus Christ. His Word alone reveals your true identity. PVB 18: 2. A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. You cannot possibly know the meaning, purpose and plan for your life until God reveals it to you. JER 29: 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. If you have no covenant with God, you are spiritually dead and physically dying. EP 2:12. That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: JN 3: 3. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
	If you are born again, this is who you are: 1. You are God's child 1 JN 3:2. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 2. You are Christ's friend and covenant partner JN 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. 3. You are united with the Lord 1 COR 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 4. You have been purchased, redeemed from death 1 COR 6: 19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. 5. You are a saint, set apart for God. EP 1: 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: 6. You can receive power from God AC 1: 8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 7. You are the salt & light of the earth Matt. 5: 13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. 14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 8. You are a member of the body of Christ 1 COR 12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. 9. You are free from condemnation RO 8: 1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. RO 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 10. You are a citizen of Heaven. EP 2:19. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; 11. You have received a ministry from God 2 COR 5: 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. 12. You have access to God through the Holy Spirit EP 2: For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. 13. You are seated with Christ in the heavenly realms EP 2: 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 14. You cannot be separated from the love of God RO 8: 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 15. You are established, anointed, and sealed by God 2 COR 1: 21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; 22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. 16. You are assured all things work together for good RO 8: 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 17. You have been chosen and appointed to bear fruit JN 15: 16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. 18. You may approach God with freedom and confidence EP 3: 12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. HEB 4: 16. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. 19. You can do all things. PHP 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. 20. You are the branch of the true vine. JN 15: 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 21. You are the church. 1 COR 3: 16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 22. You are complete in Christ COL 2: 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: 23. You are hidden with Christ in God COL 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 24. You have been justified RO 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ 25. You are God's co-worker 1 COR 3:9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. 2 COR 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. 26. You are God's workmanship EP 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. 27. The good work God has begun in you will be perfected PHP 1: 6. Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: 28. You have been redeemed and forgiven COL 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 29. You have been adopted by God EP 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 30. You have the mind of Christ 1 COR 2: 16. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
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