As He Is: The Identity You Already Have

Your identity doesn't start with what you do. It starts with where you come from. It starts with origin.
And if you know Jesus, your origin has completely changed.

Here's where it gets stunning. When Jesus went to the cross, He didn't just die for you. He died as you. That distinction matters more than most of us realize. If He only died for you, then you're left managing and improving the old version of yourself. But Scripture tells a different story.
Paul said it plainly in Galatians 2:20 — "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me." Paul wasn't at the cross. He wasn't watching from a distance. But he had the revelation that he himself was crucified with Christ. The old Paul — gone. Buried. Exchanged.
Romans 6:3–4 puts it in unmistakable terms: everyone who has been baptized into Christ has been baptized into His death and buried with Him. Your old nature wasn't reformed. It was executed. And when they placed His body in that tomb, they were burying your old nature with Him — the curse, the shame, the generational weight, all of it. Permanently buried.
2 Corinthians 5:21 seals it — God made Jesus, who knew no sin, to be sin on our behalf so that we could become the righteousness of God in Him. You were made righteous. Not over time. Not through performance. By one act of Jesus on the cross.
That truth alone should change the way you carry yourself today.

But the story doesn't end in the tomb. You didn't just die with Him and get buried with Him — you rose with Him. Romans 6:4 says that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, "so we too might walk in newness of life." The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead now lives in you. That's not metaphor. That's your reality.
And it goes further. Ephesians 2:6 says God raised you up with Christ and seated you with Him in heavenly places. Not someday. Right now. You are not seated under your circumstances, under the economy, under a diagnosis, or under relational difficulty. You are seated with Christ, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion.
This changes how you pray. This changes how you see yourself. This changes how you walk through Monday morning. You are not praying from earth to heaven, hoping God hears. You are praying from a place of authority, seated with the One who has already triumphed over every enemy.

There's one more layer that ties it all together. You weren't just saved and seated — you were commissioned. The Great Commission is really a great co-mission. You share the same mission as Christ because it is Christ in you walking it out through your life.
1 John 4:17 says it with breathtaking clarity — "As He is, so also are we in this world." Not as He was. As He is. Right now. His victory is your victory. His authority is your authority. His mission is your mission — in your family, your workplace, your community, your city, and every sphere of society where God has placed you.
This is not about becoming something you're not. It's about identifying with what has already been done. The word identity shares a root with the word identical. One spirit with Him. That's what Scripture says. That's who you are.

If you've been trying to earn what was freely given, today is the day to stop. If you've been performing your way toward righteousness, take a breath. You were made righteous. Let your life reflect what's already true.
You are not a forgiven sinner trying to survive until heaven. You are the righteousness of God in Christ, seated in heavenly places, carrying His authority and walking in His victory. When your feelings tell you otherwise — and they will — you get to speak truth over your soul and remind yourself of what is legally, eternally settled because of the blood of Jesus.
Kings don't beg. They decree. So decree it today: As He is, so am I in this world.
This Christ-centered identity is the bedrock of everything — your wholeness, your healing, your courage, your calling, your worship, your discipleship, and the reformation God wants to release through your life into every place you've been assigned.
There is so much more in this message. We'd encourage you to watch the full sermon — it will ground you deeper in the truth of who you really are. Head to our site and catch the complete message. It's one you'll want to come back to again and again.