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  • Pastor Dwain Tissell
  • Apr 6, 2008
  • Series: Identity

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"Identity" - Part 4
April 6th, 2008
Matthew 18:1-5
Dwain Tissell

Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do. 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that-and shudder. James 2:18b-19 (TNIV)

1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"
2 He called a little child, whom he placed among them. 3 And he said: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:1-3 (TNIV)


1. YOU KNOW YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN WHEN THE WAY YOU SEE THINGS CHANGES.

4 Therefore, whoever takes a humble place-becoming like this child-is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me. Matthew 18:4-5 (TNIV)


2. GOD USES YOUR CHOICE OF THE HUMBLE SPOT TO START THE TRANSFORMATION.

37 Jesus replied: " ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' Matthew 22:37 (NIV)

5 In your relationships with one another, have the same attitude of mind Christ Jesus had:
6 Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a human being,
he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death-
even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:5-11 (TNIV)