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You Are Not A Sinner Trying To Behave Better

So many people go to church every week and are still taught, explicitly or subtly, that they are at their core “dirty sinners” who only want to sin and must constantly fight their sin nature. There is an enormous sin focus, and very little teaching on new creation identity. But scripture tells born again believers something very different. Under the New Covenant, we are not forgiven sinners trying to behave better. We are new creations. We have been given a new heart, a new spirit, and have been joined to the Lord. We are not learning to become something, we literally have been made completely new. Identity matters because as a person thinks in their heart, so are they. (Proverbs 23:7) If you believe your core identity is sinful, broken, and corrupt, you will inevitably live that out. But if you understand and believe that you have been made righteous, that your heart has been changed, and that Christ now lives in you, your actions begin to align with that reality. Understanding this was a turning point for me. When I truly understood my new creation identity, that I am righteous, that I desire righteousness, that sin is no longer who I am at my core, it lost its appeal. Not because I was afraid or because I was trying harder. But because it didn’t resonate with my identity anymore. I began to get my thoughts in line with the truth of who Christ has made me. I literally began to experience thoughts like this when temptation to sin was before me. “You don’t want this.” “This isn’t who you are.” “You desire righteousness.” And that’s the difference. I’m not saying I’m perfect in every thought and action. But when I miss it, I no longer spiral into condemnation. I recognize that there is simply an area where my mind needs renewing. The issue isn’t my new heart, it’s unrenewed thinking shaped by the old Adam way of life. The real battle for believers is not between two natures. It’s between who we are in Christ and how we were trained to think before Christ. We died in Christ, we were raised with Christ, and the life we now live flows from Him. Sin no longer defines us. When we choose it, we’re choosing something that doesn’t align with who we are anymore. And that’s exactly why grace, not fear, produces transformation. This is why identity is crucial, why understanding the New Covenant matters and why sin loses its power when we stop identifying with it. You are not a sinner trying to be righteous. You are the righteousness of God in Christ, learning to live from what is already true of who you have become. Ezekiel 36: if 26-27 2 Corinthians 5:17 1 Cornithians 6:17 Romans 6:6-7 Proverbs 23:7 Romans 12:2 Galatians 2:20 2 Corinthians 5:21