The world tells us our value is based on our performance, but God calls us His masterpiece. Join us as Pastor Monty unpacks the power of identity, and learn how to stop listening to the lies of the world and start declaring God’s truth over your life!

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WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

Genesis 1:27,31a NLT

So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

(31)“Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!”

Ephesians 2:10 NLT

For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

GOD DESIRED US. HE WANTED TO CREATE US, AND SO HE DID

Psalm 139:13-16 NLT

You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.(14) Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. (15) You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. (16) You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book.Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.

GOD IS OUR FATHER

Luke 15:17-24 NLT

When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, “At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger! (18) I will go home to my father and say, ‘Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, (19) and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.’”

(20) So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. (21) His son said to him, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son.” (22) But his father said to the servants, “Quick! Bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him. Get a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet. (23) And kill the calf we have been fattening. We must celebrate with a feast, (24) for this son of mine was dead and has now returned to life. He was lost, but now he is found.” So the party began.

WHAT DID GOD DO?

John 3:16-17 NLT

For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. (17) God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.

Galatians 3:26 NLT

For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 1:5 NLT

God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.

SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD

Romans 8:15 NLT

So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.”

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CONNECT GROUP QUESTIONS:

• How does it change how you feel about yourself to know that God calls you His "masterpiece" and says you are "very good"?
• In the story of the lost son, the father ran to hug him before he could even apologize. How does that change the way you think about God?
• Since we are adopted into God's family through Jesus, what is one "fear" you want to stop feeling so you can live like a son or daughter of God?
• If being a child of God is your true identity, how does that change the way you view your mistakes or failures?

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