IDENTITY PT 3
The Cross Changed Everything
John Offutt
Part of Identity
May 11, 2025

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Biblical principle: Being in Christ means that whatever is true of Christ becomes what is true of you.

1. The Transaction of the Cross

Romans 5:17-19 (CSB)

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Ephesians 2:4-6 (AMP)

2. How the Cross Changed Our Identity

God’s requirement for justice was satisfied through the cross by grace.

Genesis 3:7-12 (ESV)

Romans 6:23 (NKJV)

Romans 3:23-24 (NLT)


Define “justified” = “the judicial act of being declared righteous by God through faith in Jesus Christ”.


2 Corinthians 5:21 (NET)


Biblical principle: We will never be more righteous in God’s eyes that we are right now!

God removed our “Old Nature” of sin on the cross.


Colossians 2:13-15 (NLT)


2 Corinthians 5:17
When we are born again, we become a new creation; the old thing is passed away; behold, new things have come.


Romans 6:6 (NET)
Application = Because of Jesus’s death on the cross, sin has been made ineffective, inoperative, powerless.


2 Peter 1:3-4 (NLT)
Being conformed to the image of Jesus is a process. It occurs as we continually choose to live in alignment with our new nature and identity. It is lived out by our choices.


Romans 6:12-14 (NLT)
Living in our new identity is simply allowing Christ to live through us.


Galatians 2:20 (NET)

I Am Statements

21 I AM blessed coming in and going out Deut. 28:6
Psalm 121:8 Numbers 27:15-17

22 I AM an heir of eternal life Titus 3:7 Hebrews 6:17 Romans 6:23

23 I AM blessed with ALL spiritual blessings Ephesians 1:3

24 I AM healed by His stripes 1 Peter 2:24 Psalm 103:3 Jeremiah 17:14 Isaiah 53

25 I have Authority I CAN exercise authority over the enemy Luke 10:19 Hebrews 13:5-6 Psalm 91:13

26 I AM above and not beneath Deut 28:13 Colosians 3:2 Luke 18:14B 1 Peter 5:6

27 I AM more than a conqueror Romans 8:37 1 John 5:4 1 John 4:4

28 I HAVE the keys to the Kingdom Matthew 16:19 Luke 12:32 Romans 14:17

29 I AM an overcomer by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony
Revelation 12:11 John 16:33 1 John 5:5

30 I AM daily overcoming the world John 16:33; 1 John 4:4 1 John 5:4