8th January 2017

1. Faith for the Future
Identity, Purpose and Destiny

2. Douglas Adams
“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to
technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary
and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is
new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of
things.”

3. Faith for the Future
Identity, Purpose and Destiny

4. Your Identity

5. Your Identity

6. Your Identity

7. 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.”

8. Your Identity
You are God-breathed.

9. Your Purpose

10. Your Purpose

11. 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.

12. 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.”

13. Your Purpose

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

15. Your Destiny

16. 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?”

17. 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.

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

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

20. Faith for the Future
Your 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)