Coming to grips with this habit of thought is essential to understanding how to live a holy life. Click to go to Lesson 5 - Who We Were in Adam . Before we were Christians we are united to Adam. We had his nature, and inherited his sin, even before we were born. We Died .
Christians are no longer in Adam.
We are no longer identified with him, and therefore no longer have his fallen identity. Something radical and amazing has happened to us - we have died to sin's reign and have a new sovereign, Jesus Christ. We are united with Jesus in the same way we used to be united with Adam, and so we have a new identity, an identity that frees us from the dominion of sin. Romans 6 tells us how all this has come to pass. Click to go to Lesson 7 - Deliverance from Sin .