Identity in Christ - Part 3

Original material by Andrew Wommack, updates from Eileen Plemmons

Answers from last week's Identity in Christ part 2: 1. Dead 2. In sin 3. a) Mercy & His love b) Died for us.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (TPT) says; “Surely you must know that people who practice evil cannot possess God’s kingdom realm. Stop being deceived!  People who continue to engage in sexual immorality, idolatry, adultery, sexual perversion, homosexuality, fraud, greed, drunkenness, verbal abuse, or extortion—these will not inherit God’s kingdom realm. It’s true that some of you once lived in those lifestyles, but now you have been purified from sin, made holy, and given a perfect standing before God—all because of the power of the name of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and through our union with the Spirit of our God.”

Can you relate? Did you notice the phrase “once lived”? This indicates the past for someone who is “born-again”. We are purified from sin, made holy and given a perfect standing before God. How? It’s the power of the name, Jesus Christ! Additionally, we have a union with Holy Spirit!

Ephesians 4:24 says; “Be transformed as you embrace the glorious Christ within as your new life and live in union with Him! For God has re-created you all over again in His perfect righteousness, and you now belong to Him in the realm of true holiness.”

Did you know there are two types of righteousness? 1) The kind produced through thoughts and actions. 2) The kind that is God’s righteousness. The first has to do with relationships to people. We may be a wonderful person, doing all things well and everybody loves us but God will not accept us based on our external righteousness.

2 Corinthians 5:21 says; “For God made the only One (Jesus) who did not know sin to become sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God through our union with Him.”

That’s God’s kind of righteousness!

An exchange took place on Christ’s cross. Jesus took our sins and gave us His righteousness, so that we would be accepted in the Beloved (Ephesians 1:6)! Born-again believers are not “growing” into this kind of righteousness, we’re already created in righteous, true holiness and in right standing with God in our new spirit. God is pleased with us based on what Christ did, NOT on anything we did or did not do. Relating to God

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