Alive in Christ: Embracing Our New Identity

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It's all meant to strengthen our faith. It's all meant to betray God. It's the way in which we refresh and we remind ourselves about who God is and what God requires. It's the way that we see God afresh, we see his glory, we see his truth. It's the way that the Word of God is brought again and again and again to the people of God so that we might be built up. [00:02:29]

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. [00:04:11]

The making of a Christian and we want to notice this. Wow, because brethren, you tell me what is more important than being a Christian. Tell me, is there's nothing you can put in its place. There's nothing but rivals this. There is nothing above this. There is nothing beyond the Wow. [00:11:20]

This is God making some people in just something that they were not before. That's what we have. That's what the corals they were, the makings of a Christian. Do you recognize that who make alive is to make a Christian? What we have before us is God. [00:13:27]

The Christian life is marked by a stark contrast to our former ways. We are no longer dead in our trespasses but are alive to God, desiring what pleases Him and turning away from the world's ways. This transformation is not merely a decision we make but a divine act of God. [00:46:23]

The truths of being made alive in Christ are not theoretical but experiential. This new life should be evident in our lives, as we live out the reality of our new identity in Christ. We are no longer dead in our trespasses but are raised and seated with Christ in the heavenly places. [00:28:29]

Brethren, think with me here. We're not dealing with being heated. We're dealing with being made alive in Christ. Let's try to reach down into some of the realities. Look here, some of the reality but at the beginning of verse 4 up the contrast but what you're alive and you were dead. [00:45:03]

You are alive. That's not something future. That's not something that happens when you die and then you go off into eternity and God makes you alive. You are alive now. You are raised up now. How high are you raised up? You are raised up so that you are seated with Christ in the heavenly places. [00:24:17]

This is not simply some theoretical or how pathetic old thought here. There's reality to this. These texts mean something. They are experiential. This has to do with our lives. You don't go from dead soul living and have this just be some theory. It is experience. This is real. [00:28:29]

The Christian is together, together with Christ, connected even tighter than this, like the branch and the vine. There's an organic integrally one with him is everything and it's the thing is it's everywhere assumed that in this connection that was true of Christ is once eyes true of the Christian. [00:35:58]

The richness of God's mercy and love, which are the driving forces behind this transformation. Even when we were dead in our sins, God's tender mercies reached out to us, making us alive in Christ. This is not a theoretical concept but an experiential reality that should be evident in our lives. [00:59:39]

God's mercy and love are the driving forces behind our transformation. Even when we were dead in our sins, His tender mercies reached out to us, making us alive in Christ. This is not a theoretical concept but an experiential reality that should be evident in our lives. [00:59:39]

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