CONVINCED: Identity Security
Luke 4:3 (ESV) The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God…
TITLE: Identity Crisis Security
Luke 4:1–2 (ESV) And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.
THE Attack (TEMPTING) ON Jesus...
Luke 4:3 (ESV) The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”
Luke 4:5–7 (ESV) And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.”
Luke 4:9-11 (ESV) And he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is written, “ ‘He will command his angels concerning you, to guard you,’ and “ ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’ ”
THE Attack (TEMPTING) ON MANKIND…
Genesis 3:4–6 (ESV) But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
EVERY ATTACK (TEMPTATION) YOU EXPERIENCE WILL BE FOCUSED ON YOUR IDENTITY.
THE FOUNDATION OF YOUR IDENTITY:
CONCEIVED - What God Thinks/Says
BELIEVED - What You Think
PROJECTED - What You Say
PERCEIVED - What Others Think/Say
JESUS: IDENTITY SECURITY
CONCEIVED - What God Thinks/Says
Luke 3:22 (ESV) and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
BELIEVED - What You Think
John 8:58 (ESV) Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.
PROJECTED - What You Say
Luke 8:56 (ESV) And her parents were amazed, but he charged them to tell no one what had happened.
PERCEIVED - What Others Think/Say
John 2:24–25 (ESV) But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.
WHO ARE YOU?
CONCEIVED - What God Thinks/Says
BELIEVED - What You Think
PROJECTED - What You Say
PERCEIVED - What Others Think/Say
Proverbs 23:7 (KJV) For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
2 Corinthians 11:3 (ESV) But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
John 12:46 (ESV) I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.