What is our most trusted source to tell us who we are? Listen to Adrian Rogers. We could just go on and

on and on and talk about what the Bible says we are and then what reality shows that we are.

Now, where is the problem? I mean, what about this contradiction? Do you think you're right and the Bible is wrong?

So what are we going to do? We're just going to dumb down the Bible? Are we just going to adjust the Bible and lower the Bible to match our lives?

Welcome to Loveworth Finding, featuring the profound yet practical messages of pastor and Bible teacher

Adrian Rogers. As we just heard, there seems to be a gap between what the Bible says we are in

Christ and what we are in reality. We are called to be victors, yet so many of us live as victims.

Adrian Rogers said, we need not to make the Bible match our lives,

but to make our lives match the Bible. We must appropriate what God has already provided for us

and possess what he's already given. If you have your Bible, turn now to Romans chapter 7,

as Adrian Rogers begins part one of learning to possess your possessions.

Many of us are not living up to our profession in Christ.

A little boy had a dog and somebody said, son, what kind of dog is that?

And really the dog was just a mongrel.

But the little boy proud of his dog said he's a police dog.

And someone said, well, he doesn't look like a police dog.

And the little guy said, well, he's in the secret service.

Now I know a lot of Christians who are saved, but they don't behave like it.

They're not living victorious lives, and there's something wrong. There's something missing.

There seems to be a gap. For example, the Bible says concerning the Lord Jesus Christ that we are

complete in Him. That is, we don't have need of anything

in the spiritual realm in the Lord Jesus. But how many Christians would remind you of somebody

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