1) The great search for ourselves
“Richard is far too arrogant” to “Richard is a pleasant and interested student“.
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2) We can only understand ourselves in the light of God and his purposes for humanity
Psalm 139:1-4 “O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.”
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3) How God sees you.
Made by God in his Image
Gen 1:26-27 – Day 6 – “26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
Intimately known by God
Worth dying for
John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in him might not perish but have eternal life“.
Romans 5:8, “But God demonstrates his love for us in this… whilst we were still sinners Christ died for us”
Co heirs with Christ
Romans 8:17, “Now if we are children, then we are heirs – heirs of God and coheirs with Christ“. (see also Gal 3:7)
4) Knowing yourself and living today
Next week – “Improving yourself”