Identity // Week 1 // Our Calling As The Church

Identity: Our Calling As The ChurchPastors JF and Ashley Wilkerson2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV 14 If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14a NIV 14 If my people, who are called by my name,2 Chronicles 7:14a CJB14 If my people, who bear my name…James 1:22-24 NLT 22 But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. 23 For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror. 24 You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like. 2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV14 If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves …As the Church…1. We are to HUMBLE OURSELVES.Proverbs 11:1-2 NLT1 The Lord detests the use of dishonest scales, but he delights in accurate weights. 2 Pride leads to disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.Humility n. a modest or low view of one's own importance.Humility isn’t thinking less OF yourself; it’s thinking less ABOUT yourself.2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV14 If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves …Philippians 2:3-4 NIV 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.Galatians 6:2 NIV2 Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. 3 Areas The Enemy Uses To Keep Us From Humbling Ourselves:Denial - When we deny that humility is our calling.Deflection - When we want to talk about anything else but   what requires us to be humble.Discomfort - When it doesn’t feel good to humble ourselves.1 Corinthians 12:12-14;24-26 NIV12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many. 24 But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.Lament - n. a passionate expression of grief or sorrow. 2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV 14 If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face…As the Church…1. We are to HUMBLE OURSELVES.2. We are to PRAY while SEEKING HIS FACE.John 4:3-4 NIV3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. 4 Now he had to go through Samaria. Matthew 12:18 NIV18 “Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations.Matthew 12:21 NIV21 In his name the nations will put their hope.2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV 14 If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. As the Church…1. We are to HUMBLE OURSELVES.2. We are to PRAY while SEEKING HIS FACE.3. We are to TURN FROM WICKED WAYS.Ephesians 5:6-11 NIV 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. 7 Therefore do not be partners with them. 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) 10 and find out what pleases the Lord. 11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV14 If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.