Hear it. Believe it. Live it.

Your
Identity
in
Christ
a Basic Gospel resource
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Hear it. Believe it. Live it. Your Identity in Christ

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 INTRODUCTION

Sometimes life is tough. It can hit us hard and hurt us deeply. In

those times, its hard to give thanks. But thats what God calls us to.
As Paul wrote, we are to give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the
will of God in Christ Jesus for you 1 Thessalonians 5:18.

If you are struggling right now and feeling overwhelmed by life,

here are 42 hope-filled truths that will overflow your heart with
thankfulness.

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 LOVED BY GOD

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever
believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 ESV

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent
his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:10 ESV

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,
neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor
depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the
love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39 NIV

CHOSEN BY GOD

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and
blameless in his sight.
Ephesians 1:4 NIV

SAVED BY GRACE

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from
yourselves, it is the gift of God-- not by works, so that no one can boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9
NIV

MADE ALIVE IN CHRIST

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who
sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed
from death to life.
John 5:24 ESV

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved
us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with
Christ by grace you have been saved
Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV
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 BORN AGAIN

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his
great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
1 Peter 1:3 ESV

INDWELT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of
God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not
belong to him.
Romans 8:9 ESV

To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the
riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Colossians 1:27 ESV

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us
for it is written, Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree so that in
Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we
might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Galatians 3:13-14 ESV

MADE INTO A TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within
you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought
with a price. So glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV

MADE INTO A NEW CREATION

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed

away; behold, the new has come.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which
God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

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 Ephesians 2:10 ESV

NAMED A CHILD OF GOD

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right
to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of
the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 1:12-13 ESV

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called
children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us
is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are Gods children now, and what
we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we
shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
1 John 3:1-2 ESV

ADOPTED AS A SON

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of
woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so
that we might receive adoption as sons.
Galatians 4:4-5 ESV

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you
have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, Abba!
Father!
Romans 8:15 ESV

RECONCILED TO GOD

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his
Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
Romans 5:10 ESV

REDEEMED

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our

trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.
Ephesians 1:7 ESV

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 TOTALLY FORGIVEN

I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his
names sake.
1 John 2:12 ESV

And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of
your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our
trespasses.
Colossians 2:13 ESV

TOTALLY CLEANSED

And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you
were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our
God.
1 Corinthians 6:11 ESV

And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the
Holy Spirit just as he did to us, and he made no distinction between us and
them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
Acts 15:8-9 ESV

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with

one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1:7 ESV

MADE HOLY AND BLAMELESS

And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he
has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you
holy and blameless and above reproach before him
Colossians 1:21-22 ESV

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins
of the whole world.
1 John 2:2 ESV

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 SAVED COMPLETELY

Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him,
because he always lives to intercede for them.
Hebrews 7:25 NIV

And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in
his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of
God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name
of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
1 John 5:11-13 ESV

DEAD TO THE LAW

Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of
Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from
the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
Romans 7:4 ESV

AN HEIR OF THE NEW COVENANT

So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through
God.
Galatians 4:7 ESV

This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,
declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on
their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will
a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, Know the Lord,
because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I
will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.
Hebrews 8:10-12 NIV

TRANSLATED OUT OF DARKNESS INTO LIGHT

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the

kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness
of sins.
Colossians 1:13-14 ESV

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 For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk
as children of light.
Ephesians 5:8 ESV

BAPTIZED INTO CHRISTS BODY

For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body--whether Jews or
Greeks, slave or free--and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
1 Corinthians 12:13 NIV

RAISED AND SEATED WITH CHRIST

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things
above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
Colossians 3:1 NIV

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly
realms in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:6 NIV

HIDDEN WITH CHRIST IN GOD

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:3 ESV

CLOTHED WITH CHRIST

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 3:27 ESV

SEALED IN CHRIST

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your
salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to
the praise of his glory.
Ephesians 1:13-14 ESV

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 MADE RIGHTEOUS -- JUSTIFIED

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we
might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by
his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Romans 3:23-24 ESV

SAVED FROM THE WRATH OF GOD

Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall
we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Romans 5:9 ESV

MADE AT PEACE WITH GOD

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:1 ESV

FREED FROM CONDEMNATION

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:1 ESV

SANCTIFIED MADE HOLY

And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of
Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 10:10 ESV

MADE PERFECT

For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being
sanctified.
Hebrews 10:14 ESV

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 TOTALLY ACCEPTED

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring
praise to God.
Romans 15:7 NIV

IN FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD

God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son,
Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:9 ESV

ACCESS TO GOD

This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ
Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence
through our faith in him.
Ephesians 3:11-12 ESV

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may
receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:16 ESV

A CITIZEN OF HEAVEN

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord
Jesus Christ.
Philippians 3:20 ESV

ANCHORED BY HOPE

So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise
the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,
so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie,
we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast
to the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the
soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus

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has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever
after the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 6:17-20 ESV

FREE

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free So if the
Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
John 8:32 NIV

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit
again to a yoke of slavery.
Galatians 5:1 ESV

VICTORIOUS

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against
us...No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who
loved us.
Romans 8:31, 37 ESV

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this
is the victory that has overcome the world our faith. Who is it that
overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of
God?
1 John 5:4-5 ESV

MADE INTO A HOLY PRIESTHOOD

To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made
us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion
forever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 1:5-6 ESV

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his
own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called
you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Peter 2:9 ESV

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 COMPLETE IN CHRIST

For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. So you also are
complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler
and authority.
Colossians 2:9-10 NLT

BLESSED WITH EVERY SPIRITUAL BLESSING

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us
with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united
with Christ.
Ephesians 1:3 NLT

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and
godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and
excellence.
2 Peter 1:3 ESV

KNOW GOD

Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and
Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
John 17:3 NIV

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone
who loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7 NIV

EQUIPPED TO SHARE HIS LIFE AND FORGIVENESS

He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant--not of the letter

but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
2 Corinthians 3:6 NIV

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and
gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world
to himself in Christ, not counting mens sins against them. And he has
committed to us the message of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19 NIV
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