Faith for the FutureIdentity, Purpose and Destiny

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Faith for the FutureIdentity, Purpose and Destiny

Your Identity

Your Identity

Your Identity

Your Identity Genesis 2:7 – “Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”

Your Identity You are God-breathed.

Your Purpose

Your Purpose

Your Purpose Genesis 1 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, 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.

Your Purpose Genesis 2:18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

Your Purpose

Your Purpose You are created for His glory, worked out through relationship.

Your Destiny

Your Destiny 1 Corinthians 15 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” 55 “Where, O death, is your victory?    Where, O death, is your sting?”

Your Destiny Job 19 25 For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; 26 And though worms destroy this body, yet still in my flesh shall I see God.

Your Destiny You will rise with Him, and there will be a New Heaven and New Earth.

Faith for the Future Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

Faith for the FutureYour Identity – You are God-breathed. (Genesis 2:7)Your Purpose – You are created for His glory, worked out through relationship. (Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 2:18)Your Destiny – You will rise with Him, and there will be a New Heaven and New Earth. (1 Corinthians 15; Revelation 21)