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If you have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, you are identified in Him. Below describes your new identity in Christ.
Note: The following scriptures are from the New American Standard Bible (NASB).
A new creature
2 Cor. 5:17 Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold new things have come.
God’s chosen elect
Eph. 1:4 Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him.
John 15:16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you, & appointed you, that you should go & bear fruit, & that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask of the Father, in My name, He may give to you. An adopted child Eph. 1:5 In love, He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will.
A citizen of heaven, a saint, an heir with Christ, and a member of God’s household.
Eph. 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ.
Eph. 1:19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household.
A child of God and an heir with Christ
Rom. 8:16-17 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him in order that we may be glorified with Him. Redeemed Gal. 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us for it is written, ‘CURSED IS EVERY MAN WHO HANGS ON A TREE.’
Foreknown by God; Predestined; Called; Justified; Glorified
Rom. 8:29-31 For whom He foreknew, He predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren; and whom He predestined, these He also called; these He also justified, and whom He justified, these He also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
A sheep
John 10:14 I am the Good Shepherd and know My own and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
A temple of the Holy Spirit
1 Cor. 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
Christ’s own possession, a.k.a. treasure
Titus 2:14 Christ Jesus who gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
Jesus is the bridegroom, we are the bride
Matt. 9:14-15 Then the disciples of John came to Him saying, ‘Why do the Pharisees fast but Your disciples do not fast?’ And Jesus said to them, ‘The attendants of the bridegroom cannot morn as long as the bridegroom is with them can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.’
A member of Christ’s body & His church
Eph. 1:22 And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. Acts 20:28 Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.
Living stones
1 Peter 2:5 You also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
A chosen race, royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own possession
1 Peter 2:9 For you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Ministers of reconciliation
2 Cor. 5:8 Now all these things are from God who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.”
Ambassadors for Christ
2 Cor. 5:20 Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of God; be reconciled to God.
Righteousness of God
2 Cor. 5:21 He made Him, who knew no sin, to be sin on our behalf, which we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Sons & daughters
2 Cor. 7:17-18 ‘Therefore come out from their midst and be separate, says the Lord, and do not touch what is unclean; and I will welcome you and I will be a father to you and you shall be sons and daughters to Me’, says the Lord Almighty.
Salt of the earth
Matt. 5:13 You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how will it be made salty: It is good for nothing anymore but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
Light of the world
Matt. 5:14-16 You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden, nor do men light a lamp and put it under a peck-measure, but on the lamp stand and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in Heaven.
Recipients of His grace [Accepted], in the Beloved
Eph. 1:6 To the praise and glory of His grace which He bestowed upon us in the Beloved.
Friends of Christ
John 15:15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things I have heard from My Father, I have made known to you.
A servant of all
Mark 9:35 And sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, ‘If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.’
Priests
Rev. 1:6 And He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father; to Him be the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
We will be the judges of angels
1 Cor. 6:3 Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, matters of this life?
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