Your identity defines who you are and is regularly connected to what you do, what you like, where you are from, or how you see yourself.
For instance, see how individuals present themselves out of the blue. "Good morning.My name is judith and I'm an entrepreneur" "Hi, I'm daniel, a specialist" individuals identity differs. Everybody, be that as it may, have a similar identity apartfrom Jesus Christ. This similar identity is connected to what we have done, as Romans 3:23 says,
"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
It doesn't make a difference if somebody sinned a little or alot. Everybody has trespassed and can be recognized
as a sinner.
Then again, when one abandons sin and places confidence in Christ, that individual has another profound identity.
Rather than being characterized in connection to sin, a believer is characterized by Christ's exemplary nature and is seen as being "in Christ."
The Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 1:30
"It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption."
It might be difficult at first to see, however that Jesus Christ can live in and through you and, subsequently, your identity is linked with Him
*Galatians 2:20#
"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."
The minute you have confidence in Jesus, you have another identity in Christ. For instance, when He died on the cross for you,so you could live with Him.
Romans 6:6-8
6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin
7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
When He rose from the dead,you rose from the dead
Colossians 2:12
"having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead".
You are in Christ and Christ is in you. He is your identity! This does not mean you are equivalent with Christ. It does imply that your previous lifestyle has passed away, and your new life is found in Him
2 Corinthians 5:17
- Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!*
This significant change is multi-faceted and conveys us to the inquiry Who am I in Christ? The numerous responses to that question contain a list of the things God improves in the life of believers at the moment of salvation. These principal realities are for each believer in Christ and incorporate the foundational truths of justification and sanctification.
Justification proclaims once-for-all that a believer is honest and heavenly before God now and forevermore.
Justification is that which God has officially done in the interest of each believer and is immaculate and changeless.
Sanctification refers to God's proceeding work in a believer's life that outcomes in an on-going Christ-like development.
This process is life-long however won't get any believer to perfection in this life. Add up to sanctification is finished when a believer is in the physical presence of the Lord Jesus Christ.
As a believer, your identity in Christ does not depend on your integrity or worth. Rather, your identity is a showing of God's grace at work in your life to justify you and to sanctify you in Him. The Apostle Paul acknowledged reality of God’s grace when he said . . .
1 Corinthians 15:10
"But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me."
To receive salvation through Chris ,you must first find your identity in him.