{"id":4141,"date":"2019-08-05T07:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T07:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2019-08-05T07:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T07:22:23","slug":"identify-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/05\/identify-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Identify yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none;text-align:left;\">Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.<\/span> &#8211; Romans 6:11<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Halt! Who goes there? Identify yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the challenge issued by life.<\/p>\n<p>And your only 2 options are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sinner<\/li>\n<li>Saint<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are politically and culturally loaded terms. And depending on your background, they may carry a lot of emotional and psychological baggage that hinders you from engaging with them.<\/p>\n<p>But the words &#8220;Sinner&#8221; and &#8220;Saint&#8221; have nothing to do with the Catholic Church or being made to feel bad by &#8220;fire and brimstone&#8221; preachers.<\/p>\n<p>They are simply statements of fact about a person&#8217;s spiritual condition.<\/p>\n<p>Sin (Gr: harmatano) simply means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To be without a share in<\/li>\n<li>To miss the mark<\/li>\n<li>To err, be mistaken<\/li>\n<li>To miss or wander from the path of uprightness and honour<\/li>\n<li>To do or go wrong<\/li>\n<li>To wander from the law of God<\/li>\n<li>To violate God&#8217;s law<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And &#8220;Sinner&#8221; just means somebody with a sin nature.<\/p>\n<p>Nature is something you inherit. And Nature isn&#8217;t defined by what you do.<\/p>\n<p>And the spiritual condition of Sin was inherited by all humans from Adam.<\/p>\n<p>But the great news is that Jesus came to earth as a human in order to give you a new nature (2 Corinthians 5:21)<\/p>\n<p>And when you put your faith in what Jesus did for you on the Cross, you receive a new nature.<\/p>\n<p>You are no longer a Sinner. You are a Saint.<\/p>\n<p>You are no longer bound by Sin. Instead, you are dead to Sin and alive to God.<\/p>\n<p>You are no longer restricted by the laws and consequences of Sin (death, decay, sickness, poverty, depression etc)<\/p>\n<p>You are instead released into the freedom of life as a Saint&#8230;life in fellowship with God.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what you received when you put your faith in Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>The question that you need to answer, once and for all, is:<\/p>\n<p>Will you identify with who you <strong>are<\/strong> in Christ&#8230;or with who you <em><strong>were <\/strong><\/em>before you got born again?<\/p>\n<p>You are NOT an SSBG (Sinner Saved By Grace).<\/p>\n<p>You were a Sinner. And now you are a Saint&#8230;because you accepted Jesus as the Lord of your life.<\/p>\n<p>Know who you are in Christ.<\/p>\n<p>And then, moment by moment, live life from within that identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. &#8211; Romans 6:11 Halt! Who goes there? Identify yourself. That&#8217;s the challenge issued by life. And your only 2 options are: Sinner Saint These are politically and culturally loaded terms. And depending on your background, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/05\/identify-yourself\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Identify yourself&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}