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Aquila 03-11-2014 10:25 AM

What is our identity in Christ to you?
 
To me, our identity in Christ is the foundation of so much in the Christian walk. I pray that these scriptures are helpful for you in your Christian experience.

-I have been justified-completely forgiven and made righteous (Romans 5:1).
-I died with Christ and died to the power of sin’s rule over my life (Romans 6:1-6).
-I am free forever from condemnation (Romans 8:1).
-I have been placed into Christ by God’s doing (1 Corinthians 1:30).
-I have received the Spirit of God into my life that I might know the things freely given to me by God (1 Corinthians 2:12).
-I have been given the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16).
-I have been bought with a price; I am not my own; I belong to God (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
-I have been established, anointed and sealed by God in Christ, and I have been given the Holy Spirit as a pledge guaranteeing my inheritance to come (2 Corinthians 1:21; Ephesians 1:13-14).
-Since I have died, I no longer live for myself, but for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:14-15).
-I have been made righteous (2 Corinthians 5:21).
-I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. The life I am now living is Christ’s life (Galatians 2:20).
-I have been blessed with every spiritual blessings (Ephesians 1:3).
-I was chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and am without blame before Him (Ephesians 1:4).
-I was predestined to be adopted as God’s son (Ephesians 1:5).
-I have been redeemed and forgiven, and I am a recipient of His lavish grace.
-I have been made alive together with Christ (Ephesians 2:5).
-I have been raised up and seated with Christ in heaven (Ephesians 2:6).
-I have direct access to God through the Spirit (Ephesians 2:18).
-I may approach God with boldness, freedom and confidence (Ephesians 3:12).
-I have been rescued from the domain of Satan’s rule and transferred to the kingdom of Christ (Colossians 1:13).
-I have been redeemed and forgiven of all my sins. The debt against me has been canceled (Colossians 1:14).
-Christ Himself is in me (Colossians 1:27).
-I am firmly rooted in Christ and am now being built in Him (Colossians 2:7).
-I have been spiritually circumcised. My old unregenerate nature has been removed (Colossians 2:11).
-I have been made complete in Christ (Colossians 2:10).
-I have been buried, raised and made alive with Christ (Colossians 2:12-13).
-I died with Christ and I have been raised up with Christ. My life is now hidden with Christ in God. Christ is now my life (Colossians 3:1-4).
-I have been given a spirit of power, love and self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:7).
-I have been saved and set apart according to God’s doing (2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 3:5).
-Because I am sanctified and am one with the Sanctifier, He is not ashamed to call me brother (Hebrews 2:11).
-I have the right to come boldly before the throne of God to find mercy and grace in the time of need (Hebrews 4:16).
-I have been given exceedingly great and precious promises by God by which I am a partaker of God’s divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).

KeptByTheWord 03-11-2014 07:27 PM

Re: What is our identity in Christ to you?
 
Thanks Aquila. These are wonderful promises, but there is a problem in paradise... all of the promises seem to include death... a death BEFORE the promise. Death to the will, death to self, death to flesh, death to sin.... all these things must take place before the promises can become ours.

Aquila 03-12-2014 08:25 AM

Re: What is our identity in Christ to you?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord (Post 1305078)
Thanks Aquila. These are wonderful promises, but there is a problem in paradise... all of the promises seem to include death... a death BEFORE the promise. Death to the will, death to self, death to flesh, death to sin.... all these things must take place before the promises can become ours.

Amen. I believe that if one has repented, been water baptized in Christ's name, and filled with the Holy Ghost... these promises are assuredly theirs.


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