OUR IDENTITY IN CHRIST
Abigail SumerackiMichigan
One thing that we are looking at when we look at our identity in Christ - is we are looking at WHO GOD SAYS WE ARE…. II Cor. 3:18 says, “But we all, with open face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed in the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
We are looking at the mirror of God’s Word to ourselves and looking in it to see WHAT GOD SEES IN US and as we do that the result is we will begin to see ourselves as God sees us. There are natural examples as to why this is important for us to see ourselves as God says we are, for there is the crime of identity theft.
Some of the problems associated with identity theft for victims include:
Financial…
Emotional…
Physical…
Social…
OUR SPIRITUAL CREDIT REPORT
Just like there are things that we can do in the natural to protect ourselves against identity theft, we also have to protect ourselves against spiritual identity theft as well because Satan wants to:
1. Steal our heavenly rewards which corresponds to financial problems
2. Steal our rest and peace in Christ – emotional problems
3. Keep us bound to sin - this is the physical problems
4. Keep us from having fellowship with God and His people – the social problems.
To protect ourselves against natural identity theft we also need to be valiant and recognize what should be on our spiritual credit report as well…
1. We are made in God’s image – Gen. 1:17
2. We are children of God – Rom. 8:17
3. We are loved – John 3:16
4. We are a New Creation – II Cor. 5:17
5. We are righteous – II Cor. 5:21
6. We are God’s workmanship – Eph. 2:10
7. We are redeemed – I Cor. 6:20
8. We are chosen – I Peter 2:9-10
9. We are citizens of heaven – Phil. 3:20
10. We are light – Matthew 5:14
11. We are dead to sin – Rom. 6:1-4
12. We are part of the body of Christ – I Cor. 12:12
13. We are saints – Eph. 1:1
14. We are free – Gal. 5:1
These are some of the things that God says are – on our spiritual credit report…
Keep in mind with spiritual identity theft, just like with natural identity theft, the victim is still themselves. The identity thief…did not change the correct information on the credit report. They only added false information to it – that false information to it – that false info causes a lot of problems, but IT DOES NOT CHANGE THE CORRECT INFORMATION–-SATAN CANNOT REMOVE OR CHANGE ALL OF THE CORRECT INFORMATION… ALL HE CAN DO IS TRY TO WEIGH US DOWN WITH LIES AND FALSEHOODS ABOUT US.
When we know what God says about us, we will begin the process of removing the lies and falsehoods and spiritual fraud that Satan wants us to see on our spiritual credit report. In order to have a clean and correct spiritual credit report we need to see ourselves as God sees us…”
– continued in next issue
