1. How do I see myself?

• As a slave

• Bound by the expectations of others

• Limited by rules or the law

• Labels

• As a phony

• As a “Wanna Be”

2. God see us not as we are, but for who we were created to be.

2. God see us not as we are, but for who we were created to be.

• God looks at the heart

2. God see us not as we are, but for who we were created to be.

• God looks at the heart

• God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things

3. Why is it that God sees more in us than we see in ourselves?

• We are afraid of what others think

3. Why is it that God sees more in us than we see in ourselves?

• We are afraid of what others think

• Failure

4. What does the Bible say about me?

For the LORD your God is going with you! He will fight for you against your enemies, and he will give you victory!’ (NLT)

- Deuteronomy 20:4

For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith. (NLT)

- 1 John 5:4

But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (NIV)

- 1 Corinthians 15:57

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? (NIV)

- Romans 8:31

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. (NIV)

Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. (NIV)

- Romans 8:17

Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life. (NIV)

- Isaiah 43:4

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! (NIV)

- 2 Corinthians 5:17

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (NIV)

- Ephesians 2:10

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. (NIV)

- John 15:16

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. (NIV)

- Ephesians 1:4

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, (NIV)

- Galatians 3:26

And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.” (NIV)

- 2 Corinthians 6:18

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. (NIV)

- Romans 8:14

So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir. (NIV)

Galatians 4:7

Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— (NIV)

- John 1:12

I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. (NIV)

- John 15:15

and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. (NIV)

- Romans 3:24

For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. (NIV)

- Romans 6:6

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. (NIV)

- Romans 15:7

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. (NKJV)

- 2 Timothy 1:7

To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours: (NIV)

- 1 Corinthians 1:2

To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people:

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. (NIV)

- Romans 1:7

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (NIV)

- 1 John 1:9

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (NIV)

- Romans 8:38-39

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” (NIV)

- Jeremiah 31:3

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (NIV)

- 2 Corinthians 5:21

But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit. (NIV)

- 1 Corinthians 6:17

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. (NIV)

- Ephesians 1:4

and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. (NIV)

- Ephesians 4:24

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace (NIV)

- Ephesians 1:7

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. (NIV)

- Ephesians 2:13

In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence. (NIV)

- Ephesians 3:12

But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior. (NLT)

- Philippians 3:20

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (NIV)

- Ephesians 5:8

and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. (NKJV)

- Colossians 2:10

So don’t be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows. (NLT)

- Matthew 10:31

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (NIV)

- John 3:16

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. (NIV)

- Psalm 139:14

Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, (NIV)

- Exodus 19:5

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.” (NIV)

- Joshua 1:9

Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor. (NLT)

- Psalm 8:5

And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. (NIV)

- 2 Corinthians 3:18

5. We have freedom from all our naïve views of ourselves but we have to choose it.

• Be selfish or be selfless

• Jesus made a similar choice – free us or save himself