Identification
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The Law of Identification
The Law of Identification
There is a legal side and experiential side of redemption. There is positional truth and temporal truth.
The temporal truth is what we can see or what we are experiencing in this world. What is going on all around us. The emotions that derive from those circumstances. They are real and valid in God’s eyes. He knows what we experience.
Then there is the legal and positional side of redemption that is from God’s perspective. There is positional truth that is in God’s reality. God’s reality or the spirit realm is more real than the physical world that we live in.( Hebrews 11:3 - By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.) It takes faith to operate in this place of God’s kingdom.
For example:
We must learn to live out from our legal and positional truth of redemption in order to live free.
20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
What “I” is Paul talking about? He is talking about the person he was before he gave his life to Christ. The self-centered, Jewish Pharisee, Christian-persecuting, law-abiding, violent, and evil Paul “no longer” lived. The Bible calls it the old man. The person of sinful human desires, of works and pride. That person has died. Paul was released, not only from the tyranny of the Mosaic law, but also from the tyranny of self.
Paul was saying, “My old life, my old goals and plans, even old relationships were nailed to the cross with Christ. Now I have a new life because Christ came in and filled the empty spaces all those old pursuits could not fill. Now he lives in me and is the focus of my life.”
(maybe my own life and plans before Christ)
You are no longer the person you were before you gave your life to Christ.
You ask why do I have sin and bondage in my life or revert back to my old way of life and habits? How come I’m not set free. That’s a legitimate question.
Answer: We need to renew our mind to who you are in Christ and believed it. If you want freedom your going to have to stand on the word and believe you are who Christ says you are. A new Creation!!!
Freedom might not happen in your time but if you stick with the Word and believe who the Bible says you are freedom will be the result.
When I got married my single self technically died that day. Now and then I still think as a single person would but I’m still renewing my mind that I’m no longer single but married?
For example I need to let her know what I’m doing or if I take off. When I was single I did what I wanted when I wanted.Now I let her know where I’m going. Before I spent money how I wanted. Now its no longer a single persons money it’s one bank account.
Its going to take time to renew my mind that we are no longer two but one. So I died as single person and was berried and rose again as a married person. That’s a major key to having a great marriage by the way.
4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died is freed from sin. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
Baptism into death is not talking necessarily talking about water baptism but with being identified with Jesus. This is the sign that we are in the new covenant.
12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, 14 having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
20 If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,
1 Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. 3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
Why is the resurrection so important. If he didn’t raise from the dead then we would be serving a dead God. He had to rise again so that every time someone confessed Him as Lord He would cause them to be born again. He would complete the work of faith in your life. Jesus is the only one who made a will, died, and rose again to probate His own will.
The Great Exchange
He became as we were, so that we might become as He is.
He died to make us alive.
He was made sin to make us Righteous.
He became weak to make us strong.
He suffered shame to give us glory.
He went to Hell in order to take us to Heaven.
He was condemned in order to Justify us.
He was made sick in order that healing might be ours.
Final Thoughts
we were nailed to the cross and died with Him,
were buried with Him,
suffered with Him,
were made alive with Him,
were Justified with Him,
conquered Satan with Him,
were raised with Him,
and finally were seated with Him.