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First Identity?then Destiny?
The Nature of our
Identification
Romans 6:3-4 (Amplified)
In
this chapter Paul was speaking to Christians.
This
is the ?all of us? to whom he is referring. And he said that every one of us
who are Christians have been baptized into JESUS
CHRIST.
This
is the ?Spiritual? fact that Paul wanted us to know.
The
word ?baptized? means to be ?put into?, the result being that you are IDENTIFIED with and become ONE with
that into which you are put. It is, in this instance, CHRIST.
This
spiritual Identification or transaction takes place at the moment we ask Christ
to come into our life.
He
gives us the Holy Spirit who JOINS
us to Christ, placing us into SPIRITUAL
UNION with Himself.
The
two of us have become ONE spiritually.
He
is in you and you are in Him as a husband and wife become ONE in a physical union.
1 Corinthians 12:13
(Amplified)
Galatians 3:27, 28
(Amplified)
So
being ?Baptized? into Christ means to be IDENTIFIED
with Him in ALL He did on our
behalf.
This
Spiritual transaction takes us out of Adam and establishes our new life
position IN CHRIST.
Now
let?s examine Paul?s statement in Romans
6:3, 4.
First,
he said that we are identified with Christ in His death.
When
Jesus died, God saw us having DIED WITH
CHRIST.
Next,
we are identified with Christ in His Burial.
God
sees us BURIED WITH CHRIST.
Then
we are identified with Him in His Resurrection, so that God sees us RAISED WITH CHRIST.
The
purpose of this Resurrection is that we should walk in NEWNESS of life.
Finally,
in Ephesians, Paul added the last aspect of our IDENTIFICATION with Christ.
He
said we are SEATED WITH HIM in
Heavenly places.
Ephesians 2:5, 6 (Amplified)
CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST
Paul
said in Romans 6:6 (KJV) that
our ?old man? was crucified with Christ.
Who
is this ?old man? about whom Paul is speaking?
The
old man is the ?sin nature? that is within us.
Paul
was referring to the self-centred rebellious nature within us that we inherited
from Adam.
We
are not sinners because we sin, we sin because we?re sinners. That is who we
are?
This
?old man?, or ?sin nature within us?, naturally loves to sin. And as long as it
is the ruling force in our life we will commit outward acts of sins.
Jesus
said it this way: Mark 7:21-23
(Amplified)
Our
problem is that we are born in Adam. And that?s not a good place to be.
We
need to get OUT of Adam and INTO Christ!
The
old Adam-like sinful nature cannot be reformed. It must be KILLED!
And
the good news is that God killed it by nailing it to the cross of Jesus Christ.
Paul
said that the reason God did this was so that the body of sin might be
destroyed (Romans 6:6)
He
was talking about our physical body being enslaved to that sin nature within
us.
Our
body responds to the Adam-like nature within us through outward acts of sin.
But
if the Adam-kind of life within us has been crucified with Christ, our body no
longer has to serve it.
So
Paul said that when our ?old man? was crucified with Christ, that Adam-like
nature was destroyed!
The
word ?destroyed? does not mean ?annihilated?, but it means to be made
Powerless.
When
our old man was crucified with Christ, its power over us was broken.
Therefore
we do not have to serve sin.
A
person who has been crucified has no power over anyone.
Have
you ever seen a dead person sin?
But
why do Christians, whose ?old man? has been crucified with Christ, continue to
sin?
Simply
because they do not realize their IDENTIFICATION
with Christ.
You
became ONE with Christ in ALL that He has done for you!
BURIED WITH CHRIST
Not
only were you crucified with Christ, but you were also BURIED WITH HIM.
When
Jesus died, they took His body down from the cross and placed it in a borrowed tomb.
His
body was in that tomb for three days and three nights. God sees your ?old man?
buried with Jesus in that SAME tomb.
During
that time, His spirit man and soul went to hell. (See Psalm 16:10, 68:18, 88:6, Acts 2:27, 31)
This
was required in order for Jesus to pay the FULL
penalty of sin for us.
This
penalty is death to the body and death to the soul.
Death
to the soul is separation from God in hell.
God
sees your spirit and soul separated from Him in hell through Christ.
God
sees us IN CHRIST each step of the
way as He paid the penalty of sin for us.
We
were there because we are IN HIM.
That?s
why we don?t have to pay the penalty for sin ourselves.
JESUS has already paid it for us!
That?s
why you don?t have to go to hell.
JESUS has already been there IN YOUR PLACE!
YOU MUST JUST DISCOVER YOUR
POSITION AND IDENTITY IN CHRIST?.IT IS DONE!!!