Our Standing

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It is blessed to know that having believed the gospel of our salvation, our sins were not only put away, but that "sin in the flesh" was condemned, or judged, in the death of Christ (Rom. 8:33For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: (Romans 8:3)), so the believer is in a new standing before God. He is no longer looked upon as in Adam, or as having any connection with Adam; but he is "in Christ" before God, in new creation where "all things are become new. And all things are of God" (2 Cor. 5:16-1816Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. 17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; (2 Corinthians 5:16‑18)). In salvation there is not only forgiveness, but deliverance from our whole state in Adam.