Who Are You?
I. You are the righteousness of
God
A.
What does it mean to be the righteousness of
God-2 Corinthians 5:21
1. Righteous-Acceptable to God, approved of God, innocent, faultless,
guiltless; a just person who has been declared righteous; In your relation with
God and you walk before him you are right; state of being right; to be on good
terms
a.
Justification-Made right; Removing from the
believer his guilt and bestowing a positive righteousness; Standing innocent
and uncondemned and actually righteous in the point
of law
b.
God is the judge, man the defendant, Jesus is
your substitution and advocate. You
were guilty, but Jesus said I’ll pay the price for
what they did and God deemed him guilty of what you did and you righteous. God looked at you and said not
guilty.
2. God loves you, but when the way that you are isn’t the way He is, He
doesn’t like it nor does He accept it
B.
The Believers sin; In the eyes of Heaven you
haven’t missed it
1. Isaiah 61:10-You wear a rob of righteousness
2. 1 John 1:9-When you confessed the sin, it was stricken from the record
a.
Jesus is faithful and just
b.
He not only forgave you, he erased all
evidence that you ever did it
3. Isaiah 43:25-26-He blotted your sin out for his own sake
a.
Put him in remembrance of this; not how
unrighteous you feel you are
b.
Hebrews 8:12-He has forgotten my mistakes
4. Colossians 2:14-Jesus didn’t just pay the price for your sin, he erased
all evidence that you ever committed any wrong
a.
Romans 6:23-That price has to be paid and
blood has to be shed
b.
Romans 4:4-5-Right-standing with God has been
credited to my account
5. 2 Corinthians 7:2-The Apostle Paul said we have wronged no man
6. Hebrews 10:1-4-My conscience has been purged and I have no guilt, condemnation,
or sense of inferiority; I stand before God as though sin never existed
II. You are holy
A.
Holy Scriptures
1. Ephesians 1:4-He chose
for us to be holy
2. Colossians 1:20-22-Jesus has presented me to the Father holy
3. 1 Peter 2:9-You ARE a holy nation
a.
Peculiar-You belong to him and therefore are
holy and special
4. Hebrews 3:1-Holy Brethren
B.
Holy-Pure from every fault, clean, sacred
1. What is sacred and special in the eyes of God
2. Set apart for God, exclusively his
a.
Don’t
call something of God’s unholy; if it’s His it’s holy
3. Prepared for God with a serious procedure,
pure, clean
a.
Jesus
prepared you for the Father by the cleansing of His blood so that he could
present you holy, pure, clean, and sacred
4. You are holy by God’s grace and God sees you as such through the blood,
while you are in the process of walking in holiness he already sees you as holy
a.
Too many wait to believe they are something
until they can see themselves being it; however if you’re ever going to be it
you’re going to have to believe you are it before you can see yourself being it
C.You created in God’s class
1. Holiness expresses
something more than being sacred,
worthy, honorable, pure, and free from defilement. Holiness is more comprehensive. It is godlikeness.
a.
Ephesians 4:24-You’re created in God’s image
2. 2 Corinthians 5:17-You are his sent ones
a.
You can’t be unholy and represent He who is
Holy
3. Ephesians 5:1-You are to imitate him
a.
Who are you to act like Jesus?
b.
John 14:12-You’re to do the works Jesus did
and greater than those
4. John 10:31-35-You are gods, not in the sense that you are to be
worshipped and praised, but in the sense that you are to be the God’s chosen
representatives in the Earth, through whom his power can flow
a.
Jesus did what he did as a man anointed by
God with the Holy Ghost and power; he didn’t do those things as God
D.
You not some second class citizen of heaven
1. It’s not God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit and then little old me; I’m
part of the team and in the family
a.
You are bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh,
spirit of His spirit (Eph 5:30, 1 Co 6:17)
b.
The blood of almighty God flows through your
spiritual veins
2. Ephesians 2:2-19
a.
2,3-Your inheritance comes from the family
that you’re in
1) With your father being the devil your inheritance was God’s wrath
b.
5-The same life-force zoe
that raised Jesus from the dead is in of you-Eph 1:19
c.
6-You sit together with him in Heavenly places-Ephesians
1:21-Joint-Seating
d.
10-He’s prepared the good life for you
e.
11-12-Remember you were a spiritual orphan,
with no hope, future, or plan
1) You’ve been adopted into God’s family; you’re a joint-heir w/ Jesus-Rom
8:14
f.
19-You are not someone who doesn’t belong;
you belong to the family of God, you are kin to God, you are related by blood
3. When I come to God I come boldly and courageously (Hebrews 4:16)
a.
Genesis 3:14-A worm I the dust is not place
for the son of king to be
III.
You are worthy
A.
1 Peter 1:18-19-You must be worthy if Jesus
spilled is blood for you
1. You must be worth something God was willing to give his best for you
B.
Romans 5:7-10-To Jesus you were worth it
1. It makes sense to the natural to think about a person dying for a
righteous person and for a good man some would even dare to die and we could
understand that, but Jesus died for an unrighteous, unholy, unclean, impure,
wicked man
2. God likes a project and he’s in the business of restoration (Psalm 23:5)
a.
EX: A guy that buys old cars spends a lot of
money on a junky old car that doesn’t even work. He pays the great price because he
doesn’t see the car as it is, he sees it as what it’s
going to be.
b.
When you were a sinner and God gave Jesus for
you, he didn’t see you as what you were, he saw you as what you were going to
be and determined in his mind that you were worth the blood.
1) Isaiah 46:10-God sees the end from the beginning
c.
When God bought you was thinking to himself
we’re going fill him with the spirit, give him the Word, and shine him up in
love and faith and we’ll fellowship together he live the good life and do what
I’ve called him to do.
3. Isaiah 53:10-It pleased the Lord to bruise him because you were worth it
C.For you to say you weren’t worth it is to say you know better than God and
it’s to say that God mishandled and despised the precious blood of Jesus
1. In the eyes of God you’re precious, your valuable, and your worth it
2. I can’t raise my self-esteem until I find out how God esteems me and
when I find out how God esteems me my self-esteem will rise
A.IV.
You are Redeemed (Galatians 3:13)
A. Redeemed-Buyer or redeemer who has gone to the slave market to purchase
a slave for the sole purpose of bringing them out of that place of slavery so
he can be set free; permanent removal from captivity; Jesus’ death didn’t only
pay the penalty for our sin, it removed us from living under the curse, to
redeem by payment of a price, to recover from the power of another, to ransom,
buy off
1.
“RE” takes you back somewhere; Man was deemed
free in the Garden, Adam sinned and man was deemed in bondage, Jesus came take
us back-1 John 3:8
2.
The great exchange/The grace faith exchange: He
redeemed us from the curse, by being made a curse for us; Anything that you are
redeemed from, you’re redeemed from because it was put on him and he bore it
for you
a. He was made a curse so you can have the blessing (Galatians 3:13-14)
b. He become sin, so that you could be made righteous (2 Corinthians 5:21)
c. He took your sickness and disease so that you could be healed (Mt 8:17,
1 Pt 2:24)
d. He become poor so that you could be rich (2 Corinthians 8:9)
3.
These are redemptive rights that Jesus
rightfully paid for and legally gave to me and now they are rightfully mine and
I have the title deed to the called His Word (1 Pet 1:18-19)
a. That what make Satan and oppressive thief (John 10:10)
B. What exactly are you redeemed from? You’ve been redeemed (bought out) from
everything that came on the Earth through Adam’s sin by Jesus’ blood (Deuteronomy
28:15)
1.
God will allow what you will allow
a. 20-The Lord shall send cursing; 45-God will allow it, but people cause
it
1)
Proverbs 26:2, Deuteronomy 28:15, 1-2-The
curse causeless won’t come
b. The curse is still here and it’s available for people to walk in it.
Jesus didn’t take the curse out of the world, he redeemed you from the curse
that’s here-John 17:15
1)
EX: When it’s raining you have an umbrella. You’re
redeemed from the rain through your umbrella; you can have an umbrella, walk
out from it & get wet.
2)
The Word is my shield (Psalm 91)
2.
What about Job?
a. Satan’s couldn’t touch Job because his obedience built a hedge of
protection (1:10)
b. Job operated in fear/disobedience, that hedge came down and destruction
came
C.Four things that
keep you from living redeemed
1.
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so (Psalm
107:2, Num 14:28, Mark 11:23, James 3)
2.
Limited cursed thinking (Psalm 78, Proverbs
23:7, 3 John 2)
3.
A failure to resist the curse (James 4:7)
4.
Opening the door to the curse (Isaiah 54:14,
Matthew 14:24)
D. These two phrases aren’t in the Bible
1.
You just never know
2.
Some things just happen
3.
Satan majors on robbing you of certainty b/c
it keeps you from receiving (James 1:8)