Your identity in Christ is received, not achieved. You belong because of God’s grace, you are adopted into His family, and your identity is grounded in what Christ has already done.

Romans 6 teaches that your old self died with Christ: “Your old self was crucified with Him.” Your former identity isn’t improved — it’s executed. The old lies—“Only what you see is real,” “Your choices don’t matter,” “You can’t change”—no longer define you. Scripture calls you to “consider yourself dead to sin and alive to God.”

Colossians 3:3 declares that your life is now hidden with Christ in God—covered, secure, and protected. God sees you as a new creation, not as your past.

Galatians 2:20 shows that Christ now lives in you. Christianity is not you trying harder but Christ expressing His life through you. Your strength is not your own.

Because of this new identity, you belong to a new kingdom: “Sin shall not be master over you.” Shame no longer names you. You now live by faith in the Son of God.

You live out your identity by declaring truth (Romans 6:11 ), renewing your mind (Colossians 3:2), and walking by the Spirit (Romans 8:14 ). Scripture replaces old labels with God’s identity: free, loved, new, forgiven, empowered, never alone, God’s workmanship, secure, victorious, chosen, strengthened, and without condemnation.

You are dead to sin, alive to God, hidden with Christ, and Christ lives in you. This identity is a gift — now live like you belong.

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