ALL I ONCE HELD DEAR
(Knowing You)
- Graham Kendrick
Verse 1
All I once held dear, built my life upon,
All this world reveres and wars to own;
All I once thought gain I have counted
loss,
Spent and worthless now compared to
this.
Chorus:
Knowing You, Jesus, knowing
You
There is no greater thing.
You're my all, You're the best,
You're my joy, my righteousness,
And I love You Lord.
Verse 2
Now my heart's desire is to know
You more,
To be found in You and known as
Yours,
To possess by faith what I could not
earn
All surpassing gift of righteousness
Chorus:
Knowing You, Jesus, knowing
You
There is no greater thing.
You're my all, You're the best,
You're my joy, my righteousness,
And I love You Lord.
Verse 3
Oh to know the power of Your
risen life,
And to know You in Your
sufferings;
To become like You in Your
death, my Lord,
So with You to live and never
die.
Chorus:
Knowing You, Jesus, knowing
You
There is no greater thing.
You're my all, You're the best,
You're my joy, my righteousness,
And I love You Lord.
IDENTITY
: the distinguishing character or personality
of an individual (Merriam Webster)
: COUNTABLE NOUN
Your identity is who you are.
: VARIABLE NOUN
The identity of a person or place is the
characteristics they have that distinguish
them from others. (Collins Dictionary)
IDENTITY
Your identity is not defined
by what the world and
people say about you, We
are defined by what God
says to us, how He sees us.
We are so privileged to be born at this generation, but we
are also have a great responsibility and a part to play.
1. Privelege
2. Responsibility
I.
GOD’S
IDENTITY
Psalm 103 : 1
The LORD works righteousness and
justice for all the oppressed. The
LORD is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in love. he
does not treat us as our sins deserve or
repay us according to our iniquities. as
far as the east is from the west, so far
has he removed our transgressions
from us.
Genesis 1: 26 - 27
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind
in our image, in our likeness, so that they
may rule over the fish in the sea and the
birds in the sky, over the livestock and all
the wild animals,[a] and over all the
creatures that move along the ground.”
27 So God created mankind in his own
image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
II.
LOST/
DESTROYED
IDENTITY
Romans 5: 12
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the
world through one man, and death
through sin, and in this way death came
to all people, because all sinned——
(ADAM)
Our identity was
destroyed through sin
[Link] Theft
[Link] Story of Jacob and
Esau
- Esau sold his birthright to Jacob,
he exchanged his calling for just a
bowl of soup.
Genesis 25:29–34
The author of Hebrews warned his
readers, “See that no one is sexually
immoral, or is godless like Esau, who
for a single meal sold his inheritance
rights as the oldest son. Afterward, as
you know, when he wanted to inherit
this blessing, he was rejected. Even
though he sought the blessing with
tears, he could not change what he had
done” (Hebrews 12:16–17). In taking
his position as firstborn lightly, Esau
sinned against God and his family.
[Link] Theft
[Link] Enemy’s Schemes
The enemy does not want us to be aware of him
and what he is doing, he is working 24/7, he
doesn’t sleep.
John 10: 10 “The enemy comes to steal, to kill,
and destroy”
- The enemy is looking for loopholes in our lives
that he will make it as his strongholds like our
weaknesses. (a specific sin or ungodly
character). Let us allow the Lord to consecrate us
circumcise our hearts of our fleshly desires.
2 Timothy 3:1-4 (New
International Version)
1 But mark this: There will be terrible times
in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of
themselves, lovers of money, boastful,
proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents,
ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love,
unforgiving, slanderous, without self-
control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4
treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of
pleasure rather than lovers of God—
Sound of Freedom
- a movie about Tim Ballard, a
former federal agent rescuing people
(and children) from human
trafficking - child sex trafficking and
sexual exploitation.
TOTAL RESCUE - 6, 000 Rescued
III.
Redeemed
Identity
[Link] thru Jesus Christ
Romans 8: 8 - 11
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us,
in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for
us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified
by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies
we were reconciled to God through the death of
His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we
shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that,
but we also rejoice in God through our Lord
Jesus Christ, through whom we have now
received the reconciliation.
[Link] IS A PROCESS
[Link]
- The word repent means to think
differently or to reverse a decision.
Repentance is a process whereby God
changes the way we think about Him,
ourselves, others, and circumstances of
life.
- Robert A. Tucker,
Changed from glory to glory
Isaiah 55 : 7-9 (New American
Standard Bible)
7Let the wicked abandon his way,
And the unrighteous person his thoughts;
And let him return to the Lord,
And He will have compassion on him,
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.
8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
• When we receive the Lord Jesus
Christ, we are not already perfect. We
start as a baby Christian that needs to
mature, We need to continue to pursue
maturity and righteousness.
• Maturity in the Lord is not based on
how long did you serve in the church,
ministry, pastor and leaders, pastor’s
kids, position, giftings and talents, etc.
“People tend to think repentance as being
necessary only at the initial experience of
receiving the Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
However, if Christians are to mature into the full
purpose God has ordained for His people, it is
necessary to allow the Holy Spirit to lead them
through a process of revelation and response to
God that Scripture calls repentance. This work of
the Holy Spirit transforms God’s people into the
image of Christ and nurtures a vital, growing
relationship with Christ”
- Robert A. Tucker,
Changed from Glory to Glory
[Link] to His Image
Paul declared the purpose of God:
Romans 8: 29 (New American
Standard Bible)
For those whom He foreknew, He
also predestined to become conformed
to the image of His Son, so that He
would be the firstborn among many
brothers and sisters;“
2 Corinthians 3: 18 (New
American Standard Bible)
But we all, with unveiled
faces, looking as in a mirror
at the glory of the Lord, are
being transformed into the
same image from glory to
glory, just as from the Lord,
the Spirit.
- May we allow and respond that the
Lord will continue transform us from
glory to glory and from victory to
victory.
- May we define ourselves according
to His word. (More than Conquerors,
Sons and Daughters of the Living
God, God is for us, etc. other verses)
- May we allow the Lord to prepare us for
His glory, for His great outpouring of
Revival in this Last Days, as a Modern
John the Baptist. May we be a channel of
blessing, agents of revival, missionaries
on our own fields, let us take our
inheritance like Joshua. Soldiers of the
Most High to fight against lawlessness,
the flesh, the world and the devil.
- He is raising a victorious youth group,
may we be preserved and endure until
His Coming.
