Sunday Recap - Made New: Identity in Christ - 4th May 2025

The Bible tells us that when we put our trust in Jesus as our saviour and lord, we are born again and become a new creation in Christ – this is an incredible truth and key to understanding our identity! To be a new creation in Christ means we now receive all of the spiritual blessings from being connected to Jesus – forgiveness, righteousness, holiness, The Holy Spirit, eternal life to name a few!  
 
Being a new creation does not mean that we are now perfect, we still struggle with sin and make mistakes. As a new creation God takes us on a journey of sanctification (becoming more like Jesus) daily. It is so important for us to understand that any past mistake or present challenge do not define us. Our identity is as a new creation in Christ, being made new to become more like Jesus.  
 
Jonny encouraged us that we need to take ownership of our identity in Christ by taking any thoughts we have which do not align with the word of God, obedient to Gods word through meditating on scripture.

2 Corinthians 5:14-17 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for themand was raised again.16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here!
 
Ezekiel 36:26-27 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
 
Colossians 3:10 You have begun to live the new life, in which you are being made new and are becoming like the One who made you. This new life brings you the true knowledge of God.
 
Romans 7:15-20 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[a] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 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. 20 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.
 
2 Corinthians 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.