What gives believers their position in Christ?
Believers receive their position in Christ through baptism into the body of Christ at belief. That act places them in Christ, and this position is the basis for walking in the Spirit rather than fulfilling the desires of the flesh, which belong to Old Adam.
Les teaches that when we became believers, we were baptized into the body of Christ, and that is now our position. He stresses that we are in Christ and that this positional truth is doctrinal. To illustrate “position,” he compares it to the presidency of a corporation or the United States: the office is recognized even though different people have held it, and America has never been without a president. In the same way, our position in Christ is a position, and we are to live in accord with it, so we do not give in to the demands of Old Adam.
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What is the believer's position in Christ after salvation?
When someone becomes a believer, he or she is baptized into the body of Christ, and that is the believer's position in Christ.