What God Says About Us | Made New | P. Jason Lozano

<p>Made New </p><p>1. Our Old Self-image vs God’s Image of Us </p><p>2 Cor 5:17 (nlt) This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! </p><p>● Self-image - The belief we have about ourselves because of what we look like and what people have said about us, it’s the picture we have painted of ourselves based off our outward situations, circumstances, or voices </p><p>Eph 2:1 (msg) You let the world, which doesn’t know the first thing about living, tell you how to live </p><p>1 Jn 5:19 (nlt) We know that we are children of God and that the world around us is under the control of the evil one </p><p>● The world’s self-image is fear, perversion, addiction, insecurity, pride, rebellion, unfaithfulness, depression, manipulation, bitterness etc... </p><p>2. We Believe &amp; Declare What God Says About Us Now </p><p>Eph 4:24 Put on your new nature (image), created to be like God <br/><br/>Prov 18:21 The power of life and death are in the tongue </p><p>● Negative words help to create a negative self-image, God’s words help create God’s self-image, we declare what God says about us </p><p>Num 13:33 We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes </p><p>Josh 1:8 This Book shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate (to repeat softly to oneself) in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success </p><p>Mk 5:28 (bsb) <em>She kept saying</em>, “If only I touch His garments I’ll be healed” </p><p>a. I am redeemed from the curse and blessed with Abraham&apos;s blessing </p><p>Gal 3:13,14 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (“Cursed <em>is </em>everyone who hangs on a tree) 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus </p><p>Gen 12:1-3 “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation