
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)
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