Romans 7:11-13,
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
False identity comes from your past life, like the law! Israel thought it was what brought them their identity. They identified with the law as making them who they were and their relationship with God. It was true their relationship came from the law but their identity did not. In the Old Testament they had no way to identify who they were nor did anybody else. That knowledge and evidence did not come along until years later. The only place identity comes from is in Who You Are and how you got to be who you are.
Those that are born today, just as those in the Old Testament, cannot identify who or what they are. Those that are born again must identify who they are so their proper identity comes forth. Identifying how you got to be who you are is a knowledge, wisdom, understanding, revelation, but who you are is your proper identity. Finding out who you are is a work of the Spirit as revealed by the holy scriptures.
Study them closely, follow the Apostle Paul as he instructs us too. He will lead you into the understanding of who you are. He is the first in the scriptures that identifies the false identity, Romans 7:1-5,
1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Paul left (in mind) his original birthing, his mother and father (sin-old man-first Adam), and everything that would seperate him (soul) from who he is now. He saw his proper identity through the new birth "Christ in you the hope of glory" The old identity came from Adam and what Adam partook of, he is described in scripture as the first Adam and sin. Jesus is described as the last Adam and no-sin, Christians must draw their identity from Christ in them. The no-sin comes by the Christ new nature-spirit, it does not mean Christians don't sin in the flesh (soul sins), and they cannot sin spirit anymore, they have been joined unto the Lord. (in soul).
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
False identity comes from your past life, like the law! Israel thought it was what brought them their identity. They identified with the law as making them who they were and their relationship with God. It was true their relationship came from the law but their identity did not. In the Old Testament they had no way to identify who they were nor did anybody else. That knowledge and evidence did not come along until years later. The only place identity comes from is in Who You Are and how you got to be who you are.
Those that are born today, just as those in the Old Testament, cannot identify who or what they are. Those that are born again must identify who they are so their proper identity comes forth. Identifying how you got to be who you are is a knowledge, wisdom, understanding, revelation, but who you are is your proper identity. Finding out who you are is a work of the Spirit as revealed by the holy scriptures.
Study them closely, follow the Apostle Paul as he instructs us too. He will lead you into the understanding of who you are. He is the first in the scriptures that identifies the false identity, Romans 7:1-5,
1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Paul left (in mind) his original birthing, his mother and father (sin-old man-first Adam), and everything that would seperate him (soul) from who he is now. He saw his proper identity through the new birth "Christ in you the hope of glory" The old identity came from Adam and what Adam partook of, he is described in scripture as the first Adam and sin. Jesus is described as the last Adam and no-sin, Christians must draw their identity from Christ in them. The no-sin comes by the Christ new nature-spirit, it does not mean Christians don't sin in the flesh (soul sins), and they cannot sin spirit anymore, they have been joined unto the Lord. (in soul).
