Our New Identity in Christ

Our NEW Identity because of Christ

Forgiven

Romans 3:23-24  For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Romans 4:5  And to one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.

2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

2 Corinthians 5:21 For our sake he made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

Psalm 103:12-13  As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.  Just as a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.  AS far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgression from us.

Loved & Cherished

Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, “I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.”

1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Hosea 14:5-8  I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, he shall send down his roots; his shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like the cedar of Lebanon. They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow, they shall flourish as a garden; they shall blossom as the vine, their fragrance shall be like the wine of Lebanon. O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress, from me comes your fruit.

Revelation 1:5 …from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood…

Song of Solomon 1:15  Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are like doves (full of faithfulness)

Song of Solomon 2:2  As a lily among brambles, so is my love among maidens.

Song of Solomon 2:10 “My beloved responded and said to me, ‘Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come along.’”

Chosen & Accepted (YOU Belong)

Isaiah 41:9-10 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, And called from its remotest parts and said to you, ‘You are My servant, I have chosen you and not rejected you. Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’

John 15:16  "You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

Ephesians 2:4-5 But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)

1 Corinthians 12:7  But to each of us a manifestation of the Spirit has been granted for the common good.

1 Corinthians 12:18, 22, 27  But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.  …. On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are indispensable…. As for you, you are the body of Christ, and individually you are members of it.

Philippians 3:20  For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

1 John 4:16  And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Valuable & Delighted in by God

Genesis 1:27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (You are an image bearer of God.)

Psalm 139:13-14 For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.

Ex 19:5  Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.

Romans 8:29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. (This promises that change WILL happen as I am conformed to the image of Christ!)

Zephaniah 3:17 “The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save.  He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.”

Isaiah 62:3-4 You will also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.  It will no longer be said of you, “Forsaken,” nor to your land will it any longer be said, “Desolate”; but you will be called , “My delight is in her,” and your land, “Married”; For the LORD delights in you, and to Him your land will be married.

Adequate/Equipped

2 Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is inspired by God an profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

1 Corinthians 15:58  Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Secure/Protected (God is my Defender)

Deuteronomy 33:12  Of Benjamin he said: "The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by Him, who shelters him all the day long; And he shall dwell between His shoulders" NKJV

Deuteronomy 33:12 Of Benjamin he said, “May the beloved of the Lord dwell in security by Him, who shields him all the day, and he dwells between His shoulders.” NASB 1995

Psalm 5:12  For it is You who dost bless the righteous man, O LORD, You dost surround him with favor as with a shield.

Psalm 118:6 The LORD is for me; I will not fear; What can man do to me?

2 Samuel 22:20  He brought me forth into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Change/Growth Promised

Luke 4:17-19 (Jesus) opened the book of the Prophet Isaiah, and found the place where it is written, “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor.  He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are downtrodden, to proclaim the favorable year of the LORD.”  Continued in Isaiah 61:3 To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

Philippians 1:6  And I am sure that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 1:18-19  You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,  but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

Victory & Self-Control are Possible

Psalm 34:4-5 I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.

2 Cor. 3:17  But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Romans 8:37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

1 John 4:4  Little children, you are of God, and have overcome them; for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

Hope & Healing

Romans 15:13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Psalm 92:12-14  The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those who are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing…

Colossians 1:13-14  He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,  in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Isaiah 51:3 Indeed the LORD will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places and her wilderness He will make like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in her, Thanksgiving and the sound of a melody.

Titus 2:13-14 …awaiting our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and to purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.

Isaiah 43:1-4a But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel, “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!  When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you.  When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, nor will the flame burn you.  For I am the LORD your God the Holy One of Israel, your Savio.;…  Since you are precious in my sight, since you are honored and I love you.”

Isaiah 43:18-19, 21 “Do not call to mind the former things, or ponder the past.  Behold, I will do something new.  Now it will spring forth; will you not be aware of it?  I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, rivers in the desert…The people I’ve formed for Myself will declare My praise.”

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