Our Identification with Christ's Sacrifice

Book excerpt: How we can accept the healing and forgiveness that Christ has accomplished for us? Grasping our "identification" we have with Christ can have a profound impact on our thinking. From my church background I knew "Jesus Saved." I had heard he died in my place, as a substitute. But I never heard that I was "identified with Christ"-utterly one with him in God's sight. In this short but powerful book we will consider: Where God has revealed identification throughout the Scriptures How "identification" was intrinsic to the Old Testament sacrifices How holy communion is a vivid object lesson of our "common-union" with Christ. In this identification, our sin, pain, and sickness were transferred to Christ, our substitute. He bore it all for us, so we do not have to. We can tap into the power of God when we take in the healing and forgiveness that Christ has accomplished for us.