Christian Affirmations

[Cassia]

Reckoning ourselves dead to sin but alive with Christ. Christ, as we know, has the distinction of 2 natures, being 100% of mankind and 100% of the divine nature. In becoming a Christian we have taken on a new nature also. What He is so we will be, but the mirror is very murky. By gazing on Him we see what we are in Him because He is in us. As we soak in what it means to be a Christian we move from glory to glory as His glory reflects in, on and thru us. This thread is about Christian affirmations that the bible says are affirmed in and through Christians as we reckon ourselves dead to the old nature and alive to the new.

Ephesians 2:4-5
But God was merciful! We were dead because of our sins, but God loved us so much that he made us alive with Christ, and God’s wonderful kindness is what saves you.

We are alive with Christ!

 

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Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

An unveiled spirit to live in communion with God. Our bodies were created as rich containers to hold Him. The old nature is being brought into the realm of the new law, written on a new heart where the gospel believed frees us from the Mosaic law. The Romans 7 experience becomes the Romans 8 experience. As a result the old nature decreases with the new nature increased. It's a progression that is no longer alienated from the life of God.

Christians are free from the law of sin and death!

 

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As Christians we are far from oppression, and fear does not come near!

Isaiah 54:14
In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression; for you shall not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near you.​

notes fronm barnes-In righteousness shalt thou be established - This is language which is appropriately addressed to a city or commonwealth. The idea is, that it would not be built up by fraud, and rapine, and conquest, as many cities had been, but by the prevalence of justice.

Thou shalt be far from oppressions - That is, thou shalt be far from being oppressed by others. So the connection demands. The Hebrew would bear an active signification, so that it might be read, 'be thou far from oppression,' that is, be far from oppressing others. But the design of the prophet is rather to promise than to command; and the idea is, that they should have no occasion to fear the violence of others anymore.

For it shall not come near thee - This doubtless refers to the security, perpetuity, and prosperity of the church under the Messiah.
1. As the means of thy establishment. This kingdom shall not be set up and settled by fraud or tyranny, as other kingdoms frequently are, but by justice. Or rather,
2. As the effect of the establishment. Thine affairs shall be managed with righteousness, which is the glory and felicity of any society, and not with oppression, as it follows. Justice shall be freely and impartially executed.

Thou shalt be far from oppression; either by thine own governors, or by foreign powers.
Thou shalt not fear; thou shalt neither have any just cause of fear, nor be given up to the torment of fear without cause.

In stability and sureness, so that it will stand forever.