Recently I posted that you can’t be a sinner and saved by Grace at the same time…in other words, you shouldn’t say “I’m just a sinner saved by grace.” Before we are saved, yes, we are sinners, but once we put our faith in Jesus Christ (Yeshua HaMashiach) we become so much more…What I call myself becomes who I am. So if I continue to refer to myself as a sinner, then I am giving Satan a foothold in my life. However, if I declare “I am a Child of God” or “I am a friend of God.” Then that is exactly who I am.

What we feed our spirit is what helps us to continue in the journey of faith.

If you are comfortable being a “sinner saved by grace” continue calling yourself that, however, I was once a sinner, who is saved by grace. Do I slip up and sin? Of Course, but I am not a sinner, I am forgiven, because immediately I realize what I did wrong and I ask my Father to forgive me.

It’s like this, if I was an alcoholic for 30 years, then I stop drinking and don’t drink for 20 years, I have no real desire for it. I will stop calling myself an alcoholic. Could I slip up and have one drink? Yes, but would that make me an alcoholic? No. It makes me someone who made a mistake.

So if you are saved by grace, you are one of the following, but a sinner…no! If you can prove to me that “Sinner saved by grace” is in the Bible, I’ll change this post…

Who I Am in Christ

1. I am a Child of God (Romans 8:16)

2. I belong to Him (1 Peter 2:9)

3. I am born again (1 Peter 1:23)

4. I am loved by God (1 Thessalonians 1:4)

5. I am a chosen by God (1 Thessalonians 1:4)

6. I am God's temple (1 Corinthians 3:16)

7. I am redeemed from the hand of the enemy (Psalms 107:2)

8. I am forgiven (Colossians 1:13,14)

9. I am reconciled to God through Christ (2 Corinthians 5:18)

10. I have been set free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2)

11. I am saved by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8)

12. I am justified (Romans 5:1)

13. I am sanctified (Hebrews 10:10)

14. I am crucified with Christ, who lives in me (Galatians 2:20)

15. I am a new creature (II Corinthians 5:17)

16. I am a follower of God (Ephesians 5:1)

17. I am a partaker of His divine nature (2 Peter 1:4)

18. I have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1)

19. I have everlasting life (John 5:24)

20. I am holy and blameless in God's sight (Ephesians 1:4)

21. I am redeemed from the curse of the law Galatians 3:13)

22. I am delivered from the powers of darkness (Colossians 1:13)

23. I am called by God (2 Timothy 1:9)

24. I am led by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14)

25. I am brought near by the Blood of Jesus (Ephesians 2:13)

26. I am a daughter (son) of God (Romans 8:14)

27. I am free from all condemnation (Romans 8:1)

28. I am kept in safety wherever I go (Psalms 91:11)

29. I am having all my needs met by God (Philippians 4:19)

30. I am forgetting the past (Philippians 3:13)

31. I am pressing toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God. (Philippians 3:14)

32. I am casting all my cares on Jesus (I Peter 5:7)

33. I am caused by God to triumph in Christ (2 Corinthians 2:14)

34. I am strong in the Lord and in the power of His might (Ephesians 6:10)

35. I am living my life by faith in the Son of God (Galatians 2:20)

36. I am doing all things through Christ who strengthens me (Philippians 4:13)

37. I am hearing the voice of Jesus and following Him (John 10:27)

38. I am an heir of God and a joint heir with Jesus (Romans 8:17)

39. I am an heir to the blessings of Abraham (Galatians 3:13,14)

40. I am observing and doing the Lord's commandments (Deuteronomy 28:1)

41. I am the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath (Deuteronomy 28:13)

42. I have been given every thing I need for llife and godliness (2 Peter 1:3)

43. I am blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ (Ephesians 1:3)

44. I am blessed coming in and blessed going out (Deuteronomy 28:6)

45. I am sealed with the promised Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13)

46. I am an heir of eternal life (I John 5:11,12)

47. I am the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13)

48. I am the light of the world (Matthew 5:14)

49. I am a fellow citizen with God's people (Ephesians 2:19)

50. I am a member of God's household (Ephesians 2:19)

51. I am loved with an everlasting love (Jeremiah 31:3)

52. I am healed by the wounds of Jesus (I Peter 2:24)

53. I am free (John 8:36)

54. I am more than a conqueror (Romans 8:37)

55. I am establishing the kingdom of heaven on earth (Matthew 16:19)

56. I am an overcomer by the Blood of the Lamb (Revelation 12:11)

57. I am an overcomer by the word of my testimony (Revelation 12:11)

58. I am exercising my authority over the enemy (Luke 10:19)

59. I am daily overcoming evil with good (Romans 12:21)

60. I am overcoming the world by faith (1 John 5:4)

61. I am not moved by what I see (2 Corinthians 4:18)

62. I am dead to sin (Romans 6:2

63. I am alive to God (Romans 6:11)

64. I am raised up with Christ (Ephesians 2:6)

65. I am seated in heavenly places with God in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:6)

66. I am walking by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7)

67. I am casting down vain imaginations (2 Corinthians 10:4,5)

68. I am bringing every thought into captivity (2 Corinthians 10:5)

69. I am being transformed by renewing my mind (Romans 12:1,2)

70. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ (Romans 1:16)

71. I am offering my body as a living sacrifice to God (Romans 12:1)

72. I am qualified to share in the inheritance of the saints (Colossians 1:12)

73. I am a laborer together with God (I Corinthians 5:21)

74. I am an ambassador for Christ (1 Corinthians 5:20)

75. I am a kingdom and priest to God (Revelation 1:6)

76. I am the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21)

77. I am kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation (1 Peter 1:5)

78. I am forever in the hand of Jesus (John 10:28)

79. I am built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets (Ephesians 2:20)

80. I have Jesus Christ himself as my chief cornerstone (Ephesians 2:20)

81. I am blessing the Lord at all times (Psalms 34:1)

82. I am continually praising the Lord with my mouth (Psalms 34:1)

83. I am declaring the praises of God (1 Peter 2:9)

84. I have been called out of darkness into God's marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9)

85. I belong to a chosen people (1 Peter 2:9)

86. I belong to a royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9)

87. I belong to a holy nation (1 Peter 2:9)

88. God's Spirit lives in me 1 Corinthians 3:16)

89. I have a ministry of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18)

90. Jesus Christ in me is the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27)

91. He is my Savior (Luke 19:10)

92. He is my Lord (Philippians 2:11)

93. He is my Love (Romans 8:38, 39)

94. He is my Peace (Ephesians 2:14)

95. He is my Righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21)

96. He is my Deliverer (Luke 10:19)

97. He is my Example (1 Peter 2:21)

98. He is my Sufficiency (2 Corinthians 9:8)

99. He is my Fulfillment (Matthew 5:6)

100. He is my Everything (Ephesians 3:20-21)

Friday, July 6, 2012

a sinner saved by grace?