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Perceiving Yourself Wrongly

Don Calvert ~ November 03, 2024
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Stringing Pearls: Jewish Rabbi’s often quoted shorter parts of longer passages from God’s Word to their opponents. This allowed God’s Word to deliver the

of they .
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Pearl #1: Those who hate God’s

, hate ; you’ve become His , He will you as both foe and avenger.

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1st Key – Being a disciple of Jesus is not just a matter of receiving God’s gift of salvation, it’s a matter of being

into who didn’t before.
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2nd Key – When you perceive yourself wrongly, you will live wrongly because what you are

is not rooted in .
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3rd Key – We perceive ourselves wrongly when we identify more with the we do than the we are called to .
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4th Key – When we perceive ourselves wrongly as Jesus’ disciples, we will give up our purpose in Jesus” .
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5th Key – As disciples of Jesus we struggle and even dismiss the very words that God

over us in our .
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ἅγιος [saint] hágios: Being a holy person, possessing superior

, and qualities.
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Eternal Truth: We are saints by

, by the of !
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Implication #1 – As disciples of Jesus, we are not trying to become

; we are who are becoming like .
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Implication #2 – In order to perceive ourself rightly as Jesus’ disciples we have to

and what God says is about us.
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