Podcast Summary: Jesus the Healer w/ Nancy Dufresne, Episode 918

Title: In Christ I Can, Part 158
Date: January 7, 2026
Host: Nancy Dufresne (Dufresne Ministries)

Episode Overview

This episode continues Nancy Dufresne’s extensive teaching series, "In Christ I Can," focusing on the foundational truths of believers’ identity in Christ. Nancy emphasizes the reality of being “in Christ” as the only true, unchanging identity of a believer, and unpacks Scriptures that illustrate how this identity empowers Christians to live victorious, free lives—no longer ruled by sin, the past, or the natural mind, but instead walking in spiritual authority and wholeness.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Power is Present—Receiving What God Has Done

• Nancy opens by affirming God’s healing and transformative power as immediately accessible to believers, no matter their current situation.
  • Quote: "There’s enough power in every sick room and in every hospital room to raise up that sick one..." (00:10)
  • She leads listeners in declaring: “I receive that power right now from the top of my head to the soles of my feet.”

2. Identity in Christ: Foundational Teaching

• The episode’s central message is that a believer’s truest, unchanging identity is who they are “in Christ,” not what life or past experience says.
  • “The real you is who you are in Christ. And that is our greatest identity. ... When we begin to live and see ourselves—in Christ—then we start living the way we see ourselves.” (02:24)
• Living only from a natural perspective causes us to be “cheated” out of the blessed life God designed.

3. Leaving the Past Behind: Crucified with Christ

• Nancy draws from Galatians 2:20, unpacking Paul’s declaration:
  • “I am crucified with Christ… the old man, the you before Christ, it doesn’t even exist anymore.” (06:20)
• The past may explain our experiences but is never an excuse for continued defeat.
  • Memorable Moment: “What happened to us, even maybe what we did wrong and failed, ...we need to leave it all crucified with Christ, because that’s the way it doesn’t rise up and live with you for the rest of your life.” (09:14)

4. Victory, Authority, and Identification with Christ

• The cross is not only about forgiveness; it’s about position and victory over Satan.
  • “His victory is our victory... it got us into victory over all the power of the enemy while we’re here on this earth.” (12:19)
  • “Jesus bore our sins, but he also stripped the enemy of authority over us.” (13:02)
• Quoting Colossians 2:15, Nancy affirms Christ’s triumph over demonic powers, urging believers to “see yourself as having been crucified, buried and raised with Christ.” (14:04)

5. Romans 6: Dead to Sin, Alive to God

• Nancy leads a detailed teaching from Romans 6:6–14, contrasting the dominion of the “old man” with the freedom of the new nature in Christ.
  • Verse Focus: “‘Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him… that henceforth we should not serve sin.’” (15:34)
• Key Practical Takeaway:
  • “We have to say it: I am dead, I was crucified with Christ. I died with Him. Why? So we could also live with Him.” (18:02)
• The “old man” (sin nature) is dead; sin and addiction have no dominion unless we “let” them.

6. Exercising Dominion: Believer’s Authority Over Sin

• Nancy teaches that walking in newness of life is a matter of knowledge and deliberate reckoning:
  • “We have to do something. We have to consider ourselves dead to sin. ...We’re not just trying to talk ourselves into it. That is the truth of God.” (20:08)
  • “If sin is pushing us around, it’s for one reason—we let it.” (22:00)
• She urges listeners to verbally resist sin and bad habits as powerless and “dead,” replacing old responses with obedience to God.
  • “You have the authority to say no to sin. Because sin is not your master anymore. You’re in dominion over it, and it’s not in dominion over you.” (24:02)

7. Freedom is Rooted in the Spirit, Not the Flesh or Mind

• Contrasting the world’s external attempts at change, Nancy emphasizes God’s inside-out transformation.
  • “The world can only help the body or the mind.... But when God set us free, it came out of the spirit of man’s being. That’s the place of victory.” (25:50)
  • “We can’t call ourselves something and then walk free from it. We have to say, I’m free from it.” (26:18)
• Believers should identify themselves according to the new nature, not past habits or failures.

8. Galatians 6:6, The Living Bible—A Fresh Perspective

• Nancy reads Galatians 6:6 from the Living Bible:
  • “Your old evil desires were nailed to the cross with him. That part of you that loves to sin was crushed and fatally wounded... For when you are deadened to sin, you are freed from all its allure and power over you.” (27:13)
• Memorable Quote: “The life of God has rewritten everything.” (28:02)

9. Practical Application: Mindfulness of Our New Life

• Be “mindful” of God’s presence and responsive to Him, not the old nature.
  • “Do not let sin control your puny body any longer... Do not give in to sinful desires. How can I keep from giving in? Because the greater one’s on the inside of you now.” (29:00)
• Every part of ourselves should now be yielded for God’s use, not for sin.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “When people go back to their past to say, well, I’m this way today because of ... my past ... it is no longer to be an excuse of your life. Because we have been crucified with Christ.” (08:47)
• “The only thing our past is worth and worthy of is forgetting, because our past and the old man was crucified with Christ.” (10:38)
• “Jesus paid the debt for us, but he also destroyed the debtor.” (14:45)
• “You have to know that sin’s not your Lord anymore... Or you will yield to it. You will comply with it. You will lay down to it, because that’s the way you used to. But we know something new now.” (23:35)
• “Do not let sin control your puny body any longer.” [LB] (29:00)

Key Timestamps

• 00:10 – Receiving God’s power in any circumstance
• 02:00–04:00 – Introduction to “In Christ I Can”; believers’ true identity
• 06:00–10:00 – Teaching on Galatians 2:20; being crucified with Christ
• 12:00–15:00 – Victory over the enemy, authority through Christ
• 15:30–18:00 – In-depth, step-by-step teaching from Romans 6
• 20:00–24:00 – How to reckon oneself dead to sin and live in dominion
• 25:50 – God’s transformation from the inside out versus the world’s attempts
• 27:13 – Reading Galatians 6:6 in the Living Bible
• 29:00 – Practical guidance: Yielding every part to God, being truly free

Conclusion

Nancy Dufresne’s teaching in this episode makes clear that to live the victorious Christian life, believers must renew their minds to the truth of their new identity in Christ. Freedom from sin—past and present—is not only possible but already accomplished through Christ’s work. The believer’s role is to "know this": to reckon past sins and the old self as dead, to yield continually to the new nature, and to refuse the old patterns any authority. The power of transformation is in the spirit, and the believer’s authority is found in embracing the finished work of Christ.

Next episode preview: Nancy encourages listeners not to miss the next installment, promising to continue exploring these transformative truths.

“And until next time, remember this: Jesus is the Healer. God bless you.” (End)