What is our identity in Christ to you?

[Aquila]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord

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.