What Do You Communicate about Who You Are

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• What Do You Communicate about Who You Are?

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• No, we arent talking about cell phones in
  particular, or just the things we say, but with
  our lives.

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Matthew 16

• (13) Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?
  
• Then in verse 15, he asked, But who do you say
  that I am?

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John 824 (NKJV)

• He said, ""Therefore I said to you that you will
  die in your sins for if you do not believe that
  I am He, you will die in your sins.""

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Matthew 513---14

• You are the salt of the earth but if the salt
  loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is
  then good for nothing but to be thrown out and
  trampled underfoot by men. 14 You are the
  light of the world. A city that is set on a hill
  cannot be hidden.

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Matthew 515-16

• Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a
  basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to
  all who are in the house. 16 Let your light so
  shine before men, that they may see your good
  works and glorify your Father in heaven.

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Luke 171-2 (NKJV)

• Then He said to the disciples, "It is impossible
  that no offenses should come, but woe to him
  through whom they do come! 2 "It would be
  better for him if a millstone were hung around
  his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than
  that he should offend one of these little ones.

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Galatians 522-23

• But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
  longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there
  is no law.

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Phil 44 (NKJV)

• Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say,
  rejoice!

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Phil 44

• (NKJV) Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will
  say, rejoice!
• (NCV) Be full of joy in the Lord always. I will
  say again, be full of joy.

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Philippians 410-11

• But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at
  last your care for me has flourished again
  though you surely did care, but you lacked
  opportunity.11 Not that I speak in regard to
  need, for I have learned in whatever state I am,
  to be content

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Philippians 412-13

• I know how to be abased, and I know how to
  abound. Everywhere and in all things I have
  learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to
  abound and to suffer need.13 I can do all things
  through Christ who strengthens me.

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Acts 91-2

• Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder
  against the disciples of the Lord, went to the
  high priest 2 and asked letters from him to the
  synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any
  who were of the Way, whether men or women, he
  might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

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Acts 93-5

• As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and
  suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. 4
  Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice
  saying to him, Saul, Saul, why are you
  persecuting Me? 5 And he said, Who are You,
  Lord? Then the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you
  are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick
  against the goads.

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1 Samuel 1732-34

• Then David said to Saul, Let no mans heart fail
  because of him your servant will go and fight
  with this Philistine.33 And Saul said to David,
  You are not able to go against this Philistine
  to fight with him for you are a youth, and he a
  man of war from his youth.34 But David said to
  Saul, Your servant used to keep his fathers
  sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a
  lamb out of the flock,

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1 Samuel 1735

• I went out after it and struck it, and delivered
  the lamb from its mouth and when it arose
  against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck
  and killed it.36 Your servant has killed both
  lion and bear and this uncircumcised Philistine
  will be like one of them, seeing he has defied
  the armies of the living God.

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1 Samuel 1737

• Moreover David said, The Lord, who delivered me
  from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the
  bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this
  Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go, and the
  Lord be with you!

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Romans 829

• For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be
  conformed to the image of His Son, that He might
  be the firstborn among many brethren.

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Romans 121-2

• I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies
  of God, that you present your bodies a living
  sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your
  reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed
  to this world, but be transformed by the renewing
  of your mind, that you may prove what is that
  good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

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Ephesians 411-13

• And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some
  prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and
  teachers,12 for the equipping of the saints for
  the work of ministry, for the edifying of the
  body of Christ,13 till we all come to the unity
  of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of
  God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the
  stature of the fullness of Christ

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Ephesians 414-15

• that we should no longer be children, tossed to
  and fro and carried about with every wind of
  doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning
  craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but,
  speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all
  things into Him who is the headChrist

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Ephesians 416

• from whom the whole body, joined and knit
  together by what every joint supplies, according
  to the effective working by which every part does
  its share, causes growth of the body for the
  edifying of itself in love.

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