Unchanging Identity
Dave Riddle 8/29/2021

Key passage: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Hard truths of the Bible

There are lots of things that make us say “I wish I didn’t know that… I wish that wasn’t in there”
- 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
  - “You are not your own”
    - The world doesn’t revolve around me.

I’m now a steward

1 Peter 4:10
- Steward: a person who manages another’s property or finances; one who administers anything as the agent of another.
- We manage our lives, not in our own interest, but in the interest of the Father

I’m now a child

1 John 3:1
- See what great love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children—and we are!

I’m now a follower

“Follow me”
- Follow = akoloutheō - to be in the same way with. To be in the same road. To follow one who proceeds.

I’m now a disciple

Disciple = mathetes (Greek: μαθητής) - pupil/learner/student - a disciple. In the New Testament, a disciple is one who not only learns, but accepts and adverse to the instruction given to them, making it their personal everyday way of living .
- Not just learning knowledge, but allowing that knowledge to change the way we live.
- Matthew 16:24 - if anyone wants to come with me, he must deny himself and take up his cross.

I’m now a slave

doulos (Greek: δοῦλος): a slave, bondman, man of servile condition
- We are slaves to our sin
  - Romans 6:15
- Romans 6:18
  - Set free from sin!
  - Now slaves to righteousness!