Who Am I?

Posted by anointedplace on March 12, 2010 · 6 Comments 

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Every born again believer in Jesus Christ has a new standing before the Lord God. This eternal position never changes. It does not depend upon changes, chances or our circumstances.

Romans chapters three through seven tells us who we are in Christ.

• We have a new standing with God. By God’s grace we have complete acceptance with God in Christ. We are at peace with God; God is at peace with us! “Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God” (5:1–2). We have a new relationship in which we are reconciled with God, and as a result is we experience His peace.

• We are members of a new family. The disobedience of Adam brought death. All men die in Adam. However, we have a new head of the family who is Jesus Christ, and He gives eternal life. “For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ” (5:17).

• We have a new identification in Christ. We have been baptized by the Holy Spirit into the body of Christ. We have died to the old life, have been buried with Christ and have been raised to new life in Him. We are now identified with Christ. We are as men who have been raised from the dead. “Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life” (6:4).

• We also have a new master. We are no longer slaves to sin. We now have a choice; we do not have to obey sin any longer. “For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification” (6:19). Our new master leads us in God’s righteousness. Sin has a payday and death is its wages, but Christ gives us life every day v. 23).

• We have a new love. Our old husband died and we have married Christ. We now have an intimate abiding love relationship with Jesus Christ. A new relationship demands my love, my loyalty, and my obedience. We obey Him because we love Him. “Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God” (7:4).

• We have a new motive of service. “But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter” (7:6). We have been set free from the bondage of the Law and are now free to serve Christ. I am a free person, united with Christ, free to serve Him (Galatians 2:20; 5:1; Romans 6:11-14; 7:4, 6).

How do you live the normal Christian life? Reckon upon these great facts about you. You are a new person in Christ. Act upon these truths. Put into daily practice what you know to be true.

Who are you in Christ? Have you claimed His grace and appropriated who you are in Him? It is something we must do daily as we walk by faith in Christ.

Selah!

Message by Wil Pounds (c) 2006

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