New #4 Identity and Community
A New Identity and Community #4
Isaiah 43:1-7
1. Where do you find your identity? Why is your identity important?
2. Verse 1, declares two aspects of our identity; “Created” and “redeemed” is that how you answered question #1? If not, why is that? If yes, how does your identity shape your life today?
3. Twice in this passage (v1,5) we are told to “fear not” how does fear impact your life? Why does God tell His people to “fear Not”, what comfort does God provide with this command?
4. Verse 7 declares the purpose for you being created and redeemed, what is it? Can you give specific ways you are living for the purpose God desires for you?
5. Finally, read 1 Peter 2:9-10; how is your individual identity connected to a community? Are you living in a community with others who have been created and redeemed?
Our response to God’s work in our lives should be to display His glory through community.
Respond
- Make sure your identity is in Christ alone
-Enjoy the blessings and responsibilities of Christian fellowship
Isaiah 43:1-7
But now thus says the LORD, He who created you, O Jacob, He who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. 3 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. 4 Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life. 5 Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you. 6 I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, 7 everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”