Why must believers identify with Christ's death?
The old Adam has to die and be separated, just as Christ was truly dead for three days and three nights. This required identification with His death makes way for resurrection life, so believers come out of deadness and experience new life.
Les explains that believers have been engulfed in the very death of Christ Himself, so they must identify with it. The old Adam has to die and be separated, just as Christ's three days and three nights signified He was really dead. Then, in the same manner that Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, believers also come out of a deadness and experience a new life. Les notes these concepts are too often unheard, yet they are fundamental to the Christian plan of salvation, and he points to Romans 6 and 2 Corinthians 5:17.