Your Identity in Christ

The truth about each of us, as Christians, is the same:

I am God’s child.

“Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God…”

John 1:12

I am God’s friend.

“I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.”

John 15:15

I have been justified and forgiven all my sins.

“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ…”

Romans 5:1

I am united with Christ.

“But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.”

1 Corinthians 6:17

I have been bought with a price.

"Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies."

1 Corinthians 6:20

I am a member of Christ’s body.

"Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it."

1 Corinthians 12:27

I am a saint.

“Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To God’s holy people in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:”

Ephesians 1:1

I am free from condemnation.

“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus…”

Romans 8:1

I have direct access to God.

“For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.”

Ephesians 2:18

“Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus…”

Hebrews 10:19

I have been redeemed. I have been forgiven of ALL my sins.

“For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”

Colossians 1:13-14

“In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us.”

Ephesians 1:7,8a

I am complete in Christ.

“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.”

Colossians 2:9-10

I cannot be separated from the love of God.

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:
‘For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.’
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers…”

Romans 8:35-38

I am anointed.

“Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.”

2 Corinthians 1:21-22

I am a citizen of heaven.

“But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.”

Philippians 3:20-21

I am hidden with Christ in God.

“For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.”

Colossians 3:3

I am the salt of the earth.

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.”

Matthew 5:13

I am a new creation.

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”

2 Corinthians 5:17

I sit in heavenly places with God.

“But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.”

Ephesians 2:4-7

I am God’s workmanship—His masterpiece.

“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

Ephesians 2:10

I am a temple of God. His Spirit dwells in me.

“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?”

1 Corinthians 3:16

*All Scripture from NIV unless otherwise noted.

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