Christians, why do you insist you are a saved sinner?

This is a common mistake made by Christians, to call themselves "saved sinners" Nowhere in Scripture are we called saved sinners, redeemed sinners or blood bought sinners, so why do we call ourselves something God does not?

We are called, sanctified, saints, redeemed. children of God, sons, one new man, followers of the Way, Christians, anointed ones, we are viewed as crucified with Christ, babes in Christ, in Christ, yes we are also called carnal, however that is a rebuke, something that God sees as an aberration, something which is a deviation from the norm, failing to meet a standard.

Let me illustrate how we should see ourselves, as God sees us, please forgive me in that it is a very crude illustration.

There is a people group who have a custom where the men would pay a dowry to the father of a bride, this would consist of one to four cows. Four cows would be paid if the intended bride was young, beautiful and having social graces, three cows would be paid if one of these attributes was missing, two cows if two attributes were missing, down to one cow if she was neither, young, beautiful or having any social graces.

There was a man in this village who paid the brides father the full bride price of four cows. This caused a certain amount of gossip as even on a good day, the bride could realistically only be valued as a two cow wife. The men openly laughed when they saw this man passing by who they thought had been ripped off, even the women thought he had been duped. One day as his wife was collecting water, he stood in the centre of the village and said with a loud voice; "People of the village, listen to me, you think I overpaid my father-in-law for the price of my wife. Yes I paid four cows and you laugh, but did you see how my wife deported herself when she thought she was only a two cow wife, then how she deported herself when she realised I valued her as being worth four cow? My friends, believe me, she truly is worth four cows as you can evidently see. The villagers had to agree and saw how blessed both the wife and the bridegroom were.

Christians, Jesus saw that we were worth four cows, the world may laugh but I will deport myself as a four cow wife and not as anything less.

This is why I view myself clothed in the righteousness of Christ, not as an aberration to the Father or the Son.

How do you see yourself, from the perspective of Jesus Christ or from some other perspective?