SERMON NOTES Your understanding of who you are positions you for success or failure, more than any other thing. You will never rise above the image you have of yourself in your heart. True Identity allows you to see yourself bigger than your problems. Paul uses the phrase IN HIM OR IN CHRIST THIS IS HOW GOD VIEWS YOU, NOT ON YOUR MERIT BUT ON HIS MERIT. ITS LEARNING TO OPERATE THROUGH HIS FINISHED WORK. “Therefore if anyone is in Christ [that is, grafted in, joined to Him by

SERMON NOTES Our Mess, God’s Masterpiece Video When we hear the word mess what do think, see, feel? I think out of order, messy, chaos, stressful. Word mess means: a disordered, untidy, offensive, or unpleasant state or condition: one that is disordered, untidy, offensive, or unpleasant usually because of blundering, laxity, or misconduct. Synonyms: chaos, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorganization, free-for-all, havoc, hell, jumble, messiness, misorder, m