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Identity I (Outline Format)
By Rene P. Brown
I. What is our identity?
A. Unbelievers
1. Sinner (with a sin nature)
Rom 3:7 (RSV) "But if through my falsehood God's truthfulness abounds to his glory,
why am I still being condemned as a sinner?"
2. Lost (separated from God)
Luke 19:10 (RSV) "For the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost.""
3. Dead in sins and trespasses
Eph 2:5 (NKJV) "even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with
Christ (by grace you have been saved),"
Col 2:13 (RSV) "And you, who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of
your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,"
4. Dead have dead spirits meaning their spirit is separated from God
When Adam sinned, his spirit was separated from God and thus “died”. Rom 5:12
(NKJV) "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through
sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned;"
B. Believers in Christ
1. Righteousness of God
2Cor 5:21 (RSV) "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him
we might become the righteousness of God."
2. Holy and beloved
Col 3:12 (RSV) "Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion,
kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience,"
3. Complete in Him
Col 2:10 (NKJV) "and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality
and power."
4. Blameless
Col 1:22 (NKJV) "in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and
blameless, and above reproach in His sight;"
II. When Is This Identity Achieved?
(When does it become our identity?)
A. Identity is always present tense.
1. If a sinner, is a sinner right now and will be a sinner so long as we are without Christ.
2. If saved and in Christ, our identity is believer - right now - and will be.
B. Believers in Christ, those who have truly trusted in Him for salvation, are immediately re-
born in their spirits. (John 3:3 NKJV) "Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to
you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.""
1. Spirit is made alive - immediately
2. Spirit is connected to God - now.
3. Sons Gal 3:26 (RSV) "for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith."
By Rene P. Brown
I. What is our identity?
A. Unbelievers
1. Sinner (with a sin nature)
Rom 3:7 (RSV) "But if through my falsehood God's truthfulness abounds to his glory,
why am I still being condemned as a sinner?"
2. Lost (separated from God)
Luke 19:10 (RSV) "For the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost.""
3. Dead in sins and trespasses
Eph 2:5 (NKJV) "even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with
Christ (by grace you have been saved),"
Col 2:13 (RSV) "And you, who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of
your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,"
4. Dead have dead spirits meaning their spirit is separated from God
When Adam sinned, his spirit was separated from God and thus “died”. Rom 5:12
(NKJV) "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through
sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned;"
B. Believers in Christ
1. Righteousness of God
2Cor 5:21 (RSV) "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him
we might become the righteousness of God."
2. Holy and beloved
Col 3:12 (RSV) "Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion,
kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience,"
3. Complete in Him
Col 2:10 (NKJV) "and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality
and power."
4. Blameless
Col 1:22 (NKJV) "in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and
blameless, and above reproach in His sight;"
II. When Is This Identity Achieved?
(When does it become our identity?)
A. Identity is always present tense.
1. If a sinner, is a sinner right now and will be a sinner so long as we are without Christ.
2. If saved and in Christ, our identity is believer - right now - and will be.
B. Believers in Christ, those who have truly trusted in Him for salvation, are immediately re-
born in their spirits. (John 3:3 NKJV) "Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to
you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.""
1. Spirit is made alive - immediately
2. Spirit is connected to God - now.
3. Sons Gal 3:26 (RSV) "for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith."
