Big Idea: We know, by experience, our identity with Christ. Paul says, “do not fail to understand we are united with Christ, by grace, through faith in His substitutional live, death, resurrection, and reign.
Understand, by experience, your union with Christ.
Understand, by perceived self-evident truth, sin can’t undo what Christ has done.
Purpose of understanding our union with Christ is so that we live a changed life. We receive a new attitude, resulting in 3 new actions:
Our New Attitude: Consider the Truth We Know.
Illustration: Cash the check and start spending the money.
3 Resulting Actions:
Stop Letting Sin Reign in your mortal body
Stop Presenting Members of Your Weapons of Wickedness
Start Serving God as a weapon of Righteousness
3 Reasons we can Know we are dead to sin and can live to God
