Many Christians live by the phrase, "I am a sinner saved by grace." Do you know that phrase is not even in the Bible? Yes, before you believe in Jesus you were considered a sinner but once you believed, God calls you a saint indwelt with the Holy Spirit.
Stop calling yourself a sinner. Calling yourself this just excuses your sin. Call yourself what God calls you..His child, chosen, holy, forgiven, redeemed, justified, a new creature, transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light, and loved by a mighty God!
Don't define yourself by your past. When you believe in Jesus, you are buried with Him, raised with Him, and seated on the right hand of God with Him!!! You are definitely a new creature with the power living inside of you that raised Christ from the dead! {Ephesians 1:19,20}
If ye then be risen with Christ,
seek those things which are above,
where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Set your affection on things above,
not on things on the earth.
For ye are dead,
and your life is hid with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is our life shall appear,
then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Cindy B · 619 weeks ago
We believe and teach the same. May I ask what sort of church background you have?
Lori Alexander 122p · 619 weeks ago
Cindy B · 619 weeks ago
Thank you for being bold enough to follow the Spirits leading.
Lori Alexander 122p · 619 weeks ago
Cindy B · 619 weeks ago
Jen · 619 weeks ago
I guess what I am referring to, with using it however, is that I .....apart from Christ....am nothing more than a sinner, having to die to my sins daily. It is only by faith, through Christ in our Lord Jesus that I am saved...not through any works of my own.
Still, yes, I know, agree, and totally hear what you are saying friend! Our old has been washed away. Behold, He makes all things new! Amen!
Ken · 619 weeks ago
Many Christians are like the children of Israel stuck in the desert of the struggles of Romans 7 instead of entering the promised land of Romans 8. All Christians get the promises of Romans 6, but who will step out of the past and into the present reality of what God has already done for us... and walk in the Spirit?
The struggle should no longer be dying to self daily, but instead living for Christ moment by moment by walking in all of God's promises even if they are hard to believe... that you and I are saints, holy, chosen ones, perfect in Christ Jesus, and now we must walk in this new reality by faith. The same faith that saves us sanctifies and grows us in Christ Jesus.
Danielle B · 619 weeks ago
Mia · 618 weeks ago
Come to think of it in a practical everyday way; if you addopt a child whom you love passionately, you would certainly fell quite sad if that child keeps refering to him/ herself as only an adopted orphan, don't you think!
Much love
Mia
Lori Alexander 122p · 618 weeks ago