Weapons for the Believer: 10 – Knowing Your Identity In Christ

Weapons for the Believer: 10 – Knowing Your Identity In Christ

According to Paul, there are weapons of warfare.

2 Corinthians 10:3-4 (ESV)

For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.

We are considering ten weapons that the Believer has at their disposal. We looked at the first nine in previous posts. If you haven’t read them I encourage you to do so.

The next weapon on the list is knowing our identity in Christ.

One of the first things that I consider to be “revelation” from the Lord was regarding the “Believer’s Identity in Christ.” I was a freshman at Samford University. One of my hall-mates introduced me to a then young minister for Campus Crusade for Christ – Josh McDowell. I listened repeatedly to some of his messages on The Authority of the Believer and our need to Know God.

10. Knowing our identity in Christ,

Once converted, the greatest challenge for the Believer is to know exactly who they are now that their spirit has been recreated and the Holy Spirit has taken up residence in them. John put it like this:

1 John 3:1-3 (ESV)

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

Paul said it like this.

1 Corinthians 6:19b-20 (ESV)

You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

If you don’t know who you are you will be vulnerable and open to believe what others may try to tell you concerning your identity. The New Testament is filled with statements regarding your identity. Once you know in your heart beyond any shadow of doubt who you are in Christ the enemy has lost a major access into your life.

Here’s a few of the things God wants you to know once you become one of His.

Romans 8:1-2 (ESV)

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

Romans 8:38-39 (ESV)

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 12:4-5 (ESV)

For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

1 Corinthians 1:30-31 (ESV)

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 15:22 (ESV)

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

Ephesians 2:10 (ESV)

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Philippians 3:13-14 (ESV)

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Meditate on these until they get into your spirit. When you live from this perspective you are a force for the Kingdom of God. You will not be easily swayed off course as you pursue the destiny for which you were called.