Sermon Notes

Identity Theft: Mugged by the Mirror

September 14, 2008 - Pastor Dave Scherrer and Dr. Alisa Shanks, Ph.D, Psychology

John 10:10

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."

1 Samuel 10:23-24

They ran and brought him out, and as he stood among the people he was a head taller than any of the others. Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see the man the LORD has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people."

Then the people shouted, "Long live the king!"

1 Samuel 16:7

But the LORD said to Samuel: "Do not judge from his appearance or from his lofty stature, because I have rejected him. Not as man sees does God see, because man sees the appearance but the LORD looks into the heart."

Philippians 3:7-17

But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you;

however, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained. Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us.

Notes:

The torment of Earned Love: "I love you if. . . "
". . . You are pretty enough" - Confronting the Appearance Lie
" . . . You are talented enough" - Confronting the Performance Lie

The Hope of Healing from the Lies
Psalm 16

Guarding your Future
Resist the devil and speak the truth
James 4:7 and our Lord's strong Gethsemane Model
Romans 12:1-2
Psalm 119:9-16