Identity in Christ

[shabana Javed]

Identity in Christ - Our identity as new creations doesn’t mean we need a special tattoo or bumper sticker! It means even better things like undeserved grace, freedom from condemnation and a home with Christ in heaven as part of God’s family.

[Desopixi Seilynam]

Now there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,
who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:1

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus (John 6:63) has made me free from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:2

And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Romans 8:10

But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also
give life to your mortal body by His Spirit that is in you. Romans 8:11

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. Romans 8:12

For if you live after the flesh you shall die, but if you through the Spirit
do mortify the deeds of the flesh you shall live. Romans 8:13

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Romans 8:14

 

We are actual new creations, the old things we used to do will no longer really satisfy us,
our satisfaction is with the Lord and we will realize this more and more as we grow with Him.

[glff]

22 hours ago, shabana Javed said:

Identity in Christ - Our identity as new creations doesn’t mean we need a special tattoo or bumper sticker! It means even better things like undeserved grace, freedom from condemnation and a home with Christ in heaven as part of God’s family.

Hey!  shabana Javed...   PTL, forever!

We agree on all you've posted here, but we're not necessarily free from condemnation.  This is why I consider the textus receptus over both the codex  Sinaiticus and the alexandrian text, because Rom 8:1, NASB tells us: "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."  Where textus recepticus adds to Rom 8:1 "..., who walk after the Spirit and not after the flesh."  Then in Gal 2:11, NASB, we're told, "But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned."

Just as the one in 1 Cor who was shunned and had his body delivered to the evil one and then who was received back into fellowship in 2 Cor 5 after he had repented.  And for those who take the body and the blood of communion unworthily which resulted in many of them sleeping in a believer's death.  And finally, we're told in Heb 12:11 that the Lord grievously chastens whom he loves to produce the peaceable fruit of righteousness.  This is referring to the fruit of one's apparent righteousness which is grown just like the other fruits of the Spirit as mentioned in Gal 5:22-23 and has nothing to do with the imputed righteousness of Jesus' perfect life under the law which is ours by grace through faith in Jesus.

Al least, that's how I see it.  : )

glf