How do you identify yourself? By what you do or who you know? By relationships? All these things can change. Who are you... really? Let's take a look inside

1. What Are You?

2. Different Responses

5. Defining “self”
• Not accomplished by saying what you do
• Nor is it done by naming your relationships
• Jobs and relationships can “change” – but
WHAT you are (or WHO you are) should
not change so easily.

6. Looking Inside
• Can be painful
• Encouraged by
scripture
• 2 Corinthians 13:5

7. The Christian
• Needs to know WHAT he is
• While he is a child of God (relationship) –
being a Christian is so much more
• The Christian is a transformed individual
who is NO longer what he used to be
• A Christian is a NEW CREATURE

8. A Christian
• Not altogether defined by “what he does”
• However, there are certain things that
Christians do
• Ephesians 2:10 For we are his
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for
good works, which God afore prepared
that we should walk in them

9. If you are a Christian
• What really defines you?
• What makes you what
you are – IN Christ?

10. A New Creature
• 2 Corinthians 5:17
Wherefore if any man
is in Christ, he is a
new creature: the old
things are passed
away; behold, they
are become new

11. To BE a Christian
• The old man of sin has to die
–Romans 6:11-12
• You have to be transformed
• You must learn to deny self
–Matthew 16:24

12. 1 John 3:3-6
3. And every one that hath this hope set
on him purifieth himself, even as he is
pure. 4. Every one that doeth sin doeth
also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
5. And ye know that he was manifested to
take away sins; and in him is no sin. 6.
Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not:
whosoever sinneth hath not seen him,
neither knoweth him

13. Romans 1:14-16
14. I am debtor both to Greeks and to
Barbarians, both to the wise and to the
foolish.
15. So, as much as in me is, I am ready to
preach the gospel to you also that are in
Rome.
16. For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for
it is the power of God unto salvation to
every one that believeth; to the Jew first,
and also to the Greek.

14. Paul became a DEBTOR
vs. 14. I am debtor both to Greeks and to
Barbarians, both to the wise and to the
foolish
• Paul’s debt was first and foremost to God
• 1 Timothy 1:15-17
• And yet, Paul considered himself to be in
debt to ALL men

15. Paul was READY
vs. 15 So, as much as in me is, I am
ready to preach the gospel to you also
that are in Rome
• What are you? A gospel preacher?

16. Ready – to what degree
• “as much as in me is”
• 2 Corinthians 12:15
And I will most gladly
spend and be spent
for your souls

17. Paul was BOLD
vs. 16 – “For I am not ashamed of the
gospel: for it is the power of God unto
salvation to every one that believeth; to
the Jew first, and also to the Greek”
• Paul prayed for boldness
• Ephesians 6:17-20

18. What are you, Paul?
• A prisoner? (sometimes)
• A preacher (always)
• Bold?
• Paul was NOT ashamed to preach the
gospel – for it is the power of God to save
those who believe

19. What are you? For Christ
• What have you become?
• Are you a new creature – transformed in
spirit – obedient, selfless
• Do you feel the debt you owe?
• Are you ready to preach to others?
• Are you BOLD?

20. Are You Ready
• To become a Christian?
• HEAR
• BELIEVE
• REPENT
• CONFESS
• BE BAPTIZED