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TRANSFORMATION OF YOUR MIND. DOWNLOAD THIS POWERPOINT AT HTTP://WWW.JLWILLIAMS.ORG/MEDIA/POWERPOINTS /. BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES FOR LIVING SERIES. SPIRITUAL BIRTHRIGHT “IN CHRIST”. 1. I AM CHOSEN , PREDESTINED , AND DEARLY LOVED BY GOD.
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TRANSFORMATION OF YOUR MIND DOWNLOAD THIS POWERPOINT AT HTTP://WWW.JLWILLIAMS.ORG/MEDIA/POWERPOINTS/ BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES FOR LIVING SERIES
1. I AM CHOSEN, PREDESTINED, ANDDEARLY LOVED BY GOD • “Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and show Myself to him” (John 14:21). • “No, the Father Himself loves you because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God” (John 16:27).
“For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love He predestined usto be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will” (Eph. 1:4-5). • “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience” (Col. 3:12). • “For we know, brothers loved by God, that He has chosen you…” (I Thess. 1:4).
“But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth” (II Thess. 2:13). • “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him” (I John 3:1).
2. I AM GOD’S WORKMANSHIP • “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Eph. 2:10).
3. I AM BAPTIZED, SEALED ANDANOINTED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT • “For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body - whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free - and we were all given the one Spirit to drink” (I Cor. 12:13). • “Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us…” (II Cor. 1:21).
“And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with Whom you were sealed for the day of redemption” (Eph. 4:30). • “for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ” (Gal. 3:27). • “Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into ChristJesus were baptized into His death?” (Rom. 6:3). • “…having been buried with Him in baptism and raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, Who raised Him from the dead” (Col. 2:12).
4. I AM BORN OF GOD AND THE EVIL ONE CANNOT TOUCH ME • “We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him” (I John 5:18). Remember this is true unless we are in a place of disobedience!
5. I AM A CHILD OF GOD THROUGHSPIRITUAL ADOPTION • “Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in His Name, He gave the right to become children of God” (John 1:12). • “The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children”(Rom. 8:16).
“He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will” (Eph. 1:5). • “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him” (I John 3:1). • Those who are adopted are especially chosen in love!
6. I AM A PARTAKER OF THE DIVINE NATURE (ZOE) • “Through these He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires” (II Pet. 1:4).
7. I AM A NEW CREATION • “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” (II Cor. 5:17)
8. I AM CRUCIFIED, RESURRECTED ANDSEATED WITH CHRIST IN HEAVEN • But because of His great love for us, God, Who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions - it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:4-6). • “Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules” (Col. 2:20).
9. I AM A JOINT-HEIR WITH CHRIST ANDBLESSED WITH EVERY SPIRITUAL BLESSING • “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” (Rom. 8:17).
“Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, ‘Abba, Father.’ So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son,God has made you also an heir”(Gal. 4:6-7). • “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ”(Eph. 1:3).
10. I AM A TEMPLE OF GOD’S SPIRIT • “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?” (I Cor. 3:16). • “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit,Who is in you, Whom you have received from God? You are not your own” (I Cor. 6:19).
11. I AM ONE SPIRIT WITH CHRIST • “But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit” (I Cor. 6:17).
12. I AM A PRISONER AND BONDSERVANT OF CHRIST • “Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God…” (Rom. 1:1). • “For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles…” (Eph. 3:1).
“As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received” (Eph. 4:1). • “Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus…” (Phil. 1:1).
13. I AM CHRIST’S BROTHER • “Both the One who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers” (Heb. 2:11).
14. I AM CHRIST’S FRIEND • “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” (John 15:15).
15. I AM CHRIST’S BRIDE • “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her” (Eph. 5:25). • “I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to Him” (II Cor. 11:2). • “Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready” (Rev. 19:7).
16. I AM A SON OF LIGHT • “Put your trust in the light while you have it, so that you may become sons of light.” When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them” (John 12:36). • “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light” (Eph. 5:8). • “You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness” (I Thess. 5:5).
17. I AM A SLAVE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS • “You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life” (Rom. 6:18-22).
18. I AM SPIRITUALLY CIRCUMCISED AND THEREFORE RIGHTEOUS AND HOLY • “In Himyou were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ” (Col. 2:11).
“God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Himwe might become the righteousness of God” (II Cor. 5:21). • “and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness” (Eph. 4:24).
19. I AM FULLY JUSTIFIED • “He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification. Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom. 4:25 – 5:1).
20. I AM ETERNALLY FORGIVEN ANDBLAMELESS, AND MY DEBT IS CANCELED • “All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His Name” (Acts 10:43). • “In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace” (Eph. 1:7).
“For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves, in Whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins” (Col. 1:13-14). • “When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; He took it away, nailing it to the cross” (Col. 2:13-14). • “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness”(I John 1:9).
21. I AM AN EXPRESION OF CHRIST’S LIFEWHICH IS IN ME • “To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27). • “When Christ, Who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory” (Col. 3:4).
22. I AM A POSSESSOR OFTHE MIND OF CHRIST • “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ” (I Cor. 2:16).
23. I AM HIDDEN WITH CHRIST IN GOD • “For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God” (Col. 3:3).
24. I AM MADE COMPLETE IN CHRIST • “…you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority” (Col. 2:10).
25. I AM FREE IN CHRIST • “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32). • “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (II Cor. 3:17).
“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery…You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love” (Gal. 5:1, 13).
26. I AM GOING TO BE LIKE CHRIST WHEN HE COMES • “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” (I John 3:2).
27. “HALLELUJAH!” I AM A SAINT • “To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ - their Lord and ours” (I Cor. 1:2). • “Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 1:1).
“Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saintsin Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons” (Phil. 1:1). • “To the holy and faithful brothers in Christ at Colosse: Grace and peace to you from God our Father” (Col. 1:2).
“...BY THE GRACE OF GOD,I AM WHAT I AM...” • I Cor. 15:10 • A SLAVE • A SON • A SAINT
1. I AM A MEMBER OF CHRIST’S BODY • “Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it” (I Cor. 12:27). • “for we are members of His body” (Eph. 5:30).
2. I AM FIRMLY ROOTED AND BEING BUILT UP IN CHRIST • “…rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness”(Col. 2:7).
3. I AM A FELLOW-CITIZEN WITH THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS • “…built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the chief cornerstone” (Eph. 2:20).
4. I AM A LIVING STONE BEING BUILT INTO A SPIRITUAL HOUSE • “you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ” (I Pet. 2:5). • “For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building” (I Cor. 3:9).
5. I AM A PART OF GOD’S HOUSEHOLD • “Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household” (Eph. 2:19).
6. I AM A ROYAL PRIEST AND HOLY NATION • "you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ…But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light” (I Pet. 2:5, 9).
7. I HAVE DIRECT ACCESS TO GOD THROUGH HIS SPIRIT AND CRY, “ABBA FATHER” • “For through Himwe both have access to the Father by one Spirit” (Eph. 2:18). • “For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by Himwe cry, ‘Abba, Father’” (Rom. 8:15). • “…that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, ‘Abba, Father’” (Gal. 4:5-6).
8. I AM ABLE TO APPROACH GOD BODLY WITH FREEDOM AND CONFIDENCE • “For through Himwe both have access to the Father by one Spirit” (Eph. 2:18). • “In Him and through faith in Himwe may approach God with freedom and confidence” (Eph. 3:12).
“Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have One Who has been tempted in every way, just as we are - yet was without sin. Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need” (Heb. 4:14-16).