Your Oneness and Identity in Christ

 YOUR IDENTITY IN CHRIST IS NOT A GOAL, IT'S A STARTING POINT.

Most Christians spend their entire lives working toward something the new birth already made them. They strive for a righteousness they already possess. They pursue a holiness they already carry. They treat their identity n Christ as a destination they have not yet reached - and the enemy never has to work hard to keep them defeated. Because a believer who is working toward their identity will never walk in their authority. 

 The church has produced generations of believers who are working towards something they already are. They are striving for a righteousness they already possess. They are pursuing a holiness they already carry. They are trying to become something that the new birth already made them. And the enemy has not had to work hard to keep them defeated. Because a believer who is working toward their identity will never walk in their authority. A believer who treats who they are in Christ as a destination they have not yet reached will spend their entire Christian life in the posture of a beggar when they were born into the posture of a king. 

    And this is not a minor theological error. This is the central misunderstanding that governs most of  the Christian life because everything flows from identity. 

Every prayer is shaped by what you believe you are. 

 Every declaration is colored by what you believe you carry. Every act of faith is either empowered or crippled by your answer to the most fundamental question in the Christian life. Not what can God do, bụt who are you in Christ right now.

This is identified as the root problem with devastating clarity. We have preached condemnation and sin so long that we do not know how to preach righteousness and to tell people what they are in Christ. When someone does tell them, they feel it is false teaching." The church has been so saturated with the consciousness of what it was before salvation that it has never entered the consciousness of what it became at salvation. And the result is a body of believers who know the cross intellectually but have never entered the new creation experientially. 

 Who know they are forgiven but have never grasped that forgiveness was only the beginning. Who know they are saved but have never discovered what they were saved into. Because salvation is not the destination. Salvation is the starting line. The new birth is not the finish line of the Christian life. It is