Living in Freedom: Our Identity in Christ

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Father as we try to grasp this finished reality, it's not a process this is done, we have died, oh God grant those who are with me now looking at this to know what has happened to them if indeed it has happened and if it hasn't happened would you grant it to happen through our time together I pray in Jesus name amen. [00:39:43]

So remember in the previous session we noted that we've we've died, and we have been raised and our life is now hidden with Christ in God and therefore we should seek the things that are above and we should set our minds on things that are above and someday if we do that we will appear with him in glory. [00:71:16]

In Christ so in Union with Christ you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands by putting off the body of Flesh by the circumcision of Christ having been buried there's the death, buried with him in baptism in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of him who raised him from the dead. [00:145:51]

The faith is the conscious experience of God's uniting us with Christ over and over and over Paul speaks of us as being in Christ in him and that Union with Christ is experienced in Us by faith which is why the New Testament continually calls us believe believe trust him trust him. [00:184:44]

We know that our old self was crucified with him, so one way to say who died is the old man the old self what does that mean what's that referring to what is my old self here's another way of saying it Galatians 5 24 those who belong to Christ if you're a Christian if you're in Christ United to him by faith. [00:242:56]

My hostility to God died my insubordination to God died my inability to submit to God's law died my inability to please God died the old flesh the old self is the insubordinate self the Hostile self the unable self the not pleasing God's self that's what died when I was United to Christ in his death became my death. [00:330:36]

I have been crucified with Christ so there's my death I have been crucified with Christ it is no longer I so there's an eye who dies no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me so my my living self is identified with Christ who lives in me and the life I now live. [00:371:27]

The unbelieving me died and the me that now lives is the faith me that's how Christ lives in me he lives in me as I trust in him one more way to say it and it's really paradoxical is Colossians 2 we could see the same thing in Ephesians 2 1 you who were dead. [00:418:48]

You have died meaning your old self has died your flesh has died your rebelliousness has died your unbelief has died your deadness has died last question okay if all of that death happened to my old self what am I what does it mean how do I experience that. [00:509:41]

What we die to is we die to legal regulations as a way of salvation I think when you die to something which is the way Paul talks often it means that whatever you die to has lost its power to control you so when you read you die to something that something still exists it may even tempt you but it's lost its power to control you. [00:577:48]

Dying to sin means sin while being real being a Temptation has lost its power to control us it's like we've been inoculated dead people don't get diseases and one of those diseases they don't get is the control of sin one more Galatians 6 14. [00:690:43]

We die to the world we die to the law we die to sin we die to Elemental principles and so on so back here to the text you have died means first that we were buried with him in baptism through faith we're United to Christ through faith therefore his death counts as our death. [00:731:08]

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