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Romans Identity      

There are many who will take a bullet in defending the death and resurrection of Christ, and rightly so. But these same individuals question their own new nature in Christ. When Paul says, “even so consider yourself dead,” he is revealing that in reality, our confidence in His death and resurrection and our new nature are to be one and the same.

These two realities must be joined together as one thought, as that is how God sees it. My confidence in His death and resurrection is the basis for confidence in my personal transformation. The word consider basically implies “do the math.” Add up the facts: Jesus died + He was raised from the dead + our faith is in His redemptive work for our salvation = we died with Him and have the nature of the resurrected Christ as our own. 

Apply

Meditate on the above paragraph. Is it then not required of me to think of others in the same way He does? How does this change the way you see people?

BIBLE    

• Rom. 6:9,11