LifeFlow: Your Identity in Christ

LifeFlow: Your Identity in Christ
You Are Loved
Romans 8:31-38

LifeFlow = The life of Jesus in us (identity), flowing through us (character), to those around us (mission), wherever we go.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. (John 15:9 ESV)

And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased." (Matthew 3:16, 17 ESV)

1. You are loved for who you are, not for what you have done.


What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31 ESV)

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:17-19 ESV)

2. God is for you.


He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. (Romans 8:32-34 ESV)

3. To show you how much He loves you, God sacrificed His own Son.

but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8 ESV)


Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:35-39 ESV)

4. God will never stop loving you.
- God does not promise freedom from hardship or persecution, but He promises that nothing will ever separate us from His love

Next steps:
- memorize and reflect on Romans 8:38-39
- talk with someone about "you are loved"