Your identity doesn't depend on something you do or have done.

Your true identity is who God says you are.

Identity

2 Cor 5:17 - NIV

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

I am a New CreationI am a PriestI am RoyaltyI am a TempleI am Alien

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Galatians 5:1 - MSG

Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.

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Eph 1:17-19 - NIV

…I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe…

Prayer One:

Eph 3:16-17,20 - NIV

…I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith…Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us….

Prayer Two:

The Apostle’s Prayers

First Prayer Second Prayer

Ephesians 1:16-23 Ephesians 3:14-21

For revelation of “Us in Christ” For impartation of “Christ in Us”

For understanding of what Jesus has done “For Us”

For an experience of the Spirit working “In Us”

JUSTIFICATION REGENERATION

RIGHTEOUS MESSAGE NEW CREATION MESSAGE

STANDING STATE

By this we OVERCOME THE DEVIL By this we OVERCOME THE FLESH

Before God and against the enemy

Before my neighbour in the power of the Spirit

Eternal LifeEphesians 1:3, Colossians 2:9-10, Romans 8:1

Victorious LifeGalatians 2:20, Colossians 1:27, Ephesians 3:20

Dynamics of the New Creation - Tony Smits - pg 23

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1 Thess 5:23-24 - MSG

May God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole, put you together—spirit, soul, and body—and keep you fit for the coming of our Master, Jesus Christ. The One who called you is completely dependable. If he said it, he’ll do it!

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In The Beginning

Fall of Man

Eph 2:1-3 - NLT

Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins. You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil—the commander of the powers in the unseen world. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God. All of us used to live that way, following the passionate desires and inclinations of our sinful nature. By our very nature we were subject to God’s anger, just like everyone else.

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Eph 4:17-18 - NIV

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.

New Creations

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The act or process of regenerating or the state of being regenerated; rebirth or renewalCollins Dictionary

The English word “regeneration” is the translation of palingenesia, from palin (again) and genesis (birth). It means simply a new birth, a new beginning, a new order.Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Regeneration:

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Eze 36:25-26 - ESV

And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

2 Cor 5:17 - NIV

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Eph 2:4-7 - NIV

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

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I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

Romans 7:15-25 - NIV

So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

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Romans 12:2 - NIV

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 12:2 - MSG

Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

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New Creations

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Christianity is very optimistic: with supernatural aid humans can be transformed and restored to their

original goodness. It was in regards to God’s ability to change human hearts, enabling us to enter his

kingdom, that Jesus said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible”

(Matt 19:26)

Christian Theology - Verision II

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The new creation message is “Christ living within us”, and if we get a full understanding of the purpose of it, get it in its right perspective and we allow Christ to live out through us, then the extent of our power and influence and effectiveness would be without limit.

Dynamics of the New Creation - Tony Smits

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