DISCOVERING YOUR NEWSELF KNOWING WHO YOU
Introduction:
Before Saul has his first encounter with God on the way to Damascus, he was an avowed of the Lord Jesus Christ, but after the experience on the way to Damascus, he became a different person. He was commissioned and he started preaching the same gospel he had persecuted. Acts 9:1-22 Saul (later Paul) was a servant or slave of the law, culture and traditions but was turned to a servant of God in righteousness
A KNOWING WHO YOU ARE
1 You were a servant of sin, a child of the devil but now has been delivered from sin and its passions. Rom 6:16-18, Rom. 7:5-6, Jn.8:34,44, Jn.3:8.
2. You who were being taken captive, afflicted and dehumanized at will by the devil is now delivered totally from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ. II Tim.2:26, Lk.13:11-16, Col. 1:12-13
3. You were once no people, alien to the common wealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise but has now been made sons, in fact, joint-heir with the Lord Jesus and thereby made entitled to all divine blessings. Rom.9:25-26, Eph.2:11-16, Rom.8:17, Eph.1:3, II Pet.1:3, Eph.2:19; I Pet.2:9-10.
4. Satan has rule and authority over you since you lost your first position due to sin. However, the new YOU is now restored from that former position and you now bear rule power, dominion and authority over Satan and his cohorts. II Tim.2:25-26, II Pet.2:9, Lk.4:6, Col.1:20-22, Lk.10:19, James 4:7, Lk.10:1, 17.
5. You were blind to the light of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ but now you could see II Cor.4:4.
B HOW DOES GOD SEE YOU NOW?
1. A new person entirely whose sins have both been washed away and forgotten. II Co.5:17, Gal.6:15, Heb.8:12, Rev.1:5, I Jn.1:7, Isa.44:22, sins mentioned here include every manner of sins committed in the past.
2. As being holy and peculiar to Him. He has consequently kept you as the apple of His eye. I Pet.2:9, Titus 2:14, Ex.19:5-6, Deut.32:10, Zech.2:8, Isa.54:15-17
3. A new creature that is separated unto God II Cor.5:17, Eph.4:22-24, Col.1:13-14, Eph.6:17-18
4. The righteousness of God by faith in Jesus Christ Rom.3:22, Phil.3:9, Isa.54:17, Gal.2:20.
SANCTIFICATION
To sanctify means to make holy, make pure and to be separated unto God. Sanctification is the second work of grace. It attacks and removes the root of sin Lev.20:7-8, Jn.17:17-18, Heb.12:14, II Cor.6:14-18 Sanctification is of the body and all that we have Lev.27:14-15, Rom.12:1-2
The deliverance from the power of besetting sins can be achieved through sanctification Heb.12:1
How To Be Sanctified
- By the word Jn.17:17, Heb.4:12
- By the blood of Jesus Heb.1:19-20, 9:13-14, I Jn.1:7,9
- By the Holy Spirit I Pet1:2, II Thess.2:13.
- By God I Thess.5:23.
Conclusion
Your position is exactly like that of Saul mentioned in the introduction. You (put your name) were weak before, but now made strong, you were an under-dog to Satan but now his master. You are now to resist him and secure fr4om his hand those he is still holding captive.
MEMORY VERSE: 1 PETER 2:9
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hat called you out of darkness into His marvelous light:
