PD101 Our Identity in Christ
Overview
Our Identity in Christ demonstrates that God’s love has the power to transform lives through his work. The first section of the course examines what the Bible says about our identity in Christ, including how we are chosen, justified, adopted, and delivered from darkness. The second section suggests the implications of our identity in Christ, including what we can believe about ourselves, how we can respond to others, and where we can place our hope.
Top Highlights
“Justification means that when God looks at me, He counts me in a certain way. He has a certain perspective on me. Justification means ‘just as if I had never sinned.’ When God looks at me, He sees me as sinless. When God looks at you, He doesn’t see all your sin. If by faith you have believed Christ, then He sees you as sinless.” (source)
“Do you see that you have been uniquely crafted by a loving God who has made you the way you are so that you might flee to Him and look to Him as your Father? Do you know that His works are wonderful and that you can rejoice in the fact that, even though you have certain parts of you that you are not happy with as you compare yourself with other persons out in the world, are you glad that God made you the way you are?” (source)
“We look at ourselves with just our natural eyes, and we say, ‘There is no way in the world that a holy God should love me like this.’ But everything about you that should disqualify you from being in this family are the very things that demonstrate His mercy. God has no way to demonstrate His mercy unless He pours it out on sinners.” (source)
“Who are you? Do you have faith to believe that you are a person who has been particularly chosen by Him and counted holy and blameless before Him as a vessel of mercy? That is your true identity.” (source)
“The Bible says that you are unceasingly, passionately, personally, unquenchably loved by God—that there’s nothing you can do to stop that love, and that that love of God for us is not some cold dispassion where He says, ‘Oh yes, I love you. But I don’t really want to have anything to do with you.’ No. The Bible tells us that the Lord Jesus is our husband. His love for us as His bride is a passionate love, and it is unquenchable.” (source)
- Title: PD101 Our Identity in Christ
- Author: Elyse Fitzpatrick
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Christian life; Education › Christian life; Spiritual life › Christianity
- Resource ID: LLS:PD101FITZPATRICK
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-14T02:27:11Z
Elyse Fitzpatrick has been counseling women since 1989. She is a retreat and conference speaker and the head of Women Helping Women Ministries. Fitzpatrick has a certificate in biblical counseling from CCEEF in San Diego and an MA in biblical counseling from Trinity Theological Seminary.
She is the author of more than 15 books, including Love to Eat, Hate to Eat. Fitzpatrick has developed an extensive curriculum in biblical counseling and has trained students in both North and South America.