Covenant Reformed News – June 2017 • Volume XVI, Issue 14
This article from Covenant Reformed News explores how believers find their true identity through union with Christ, emphasizing the spiritual rebirth that transforms one's self-understanding from worldly perspectives to a Christ-centered identity. It develops the theological foundations of justification and sanctification as the believer's identification with Christ's righteousness and holiness, drawing on key Reformation passages to explain how Christians are made new creatures in Him.
Our Identity in Christ (3) Men and women truly know and rejoice in their identity as human beings, and as male and female, only in Jesus Christ! We entered our new, spiritual life through the new birth. We had a first, physical birth and we were born again with a spiritual birth. Our first birth was here below; our second birth was from above. For most of us, our first birth took place in a hospital; our second birth was from heaven. This second birth enables us to understand our earthly...