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November 18, 2007
WINNING INTO FREEDOM
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be
free indeed.
John 8:36
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=joh+8:36&sr=1
If there is any remnant of individual conceit left, it always says "I
can't." Personality never says "I can't," but simply absorbs and
absorbs. Personality always wants more and more. It is the way we are
built. We are designed with a great capacity for God; and sin and our
individuality are the things that keep us from getting at God. God
delivers us from sin: we have to deliver our selves from
individuality, i.e., to present our natural life to God and sacrifice
it until it is transformed into a spiritual life by obedience.
God does not pay any attention to our natural individuality in the
development of our spiritual life. His order runs right across the
natural life, and we have to see that we aid and abet God, not stand
against Him and say - I can't do that. God will not discipline us, we
must discipline ourselves. God will not bring every thought and
imagination into captivity; we have to do it. Do not say - O Lord, I
suffer from wandering thoughts. Don't suffer from wandering thoughts.
Stop listening to the tyranny of your individuality and get
emancipated out into personality.
"If the Son shall make you free . ." Do not substitute 'Saviour' for
'Son.' The Saviour sets us free from sin; this is the freedom of
being set free by the Son. It is what Paul means in Gal. 2:20 - "I
have been crucified with Christ," his natural individuality has been
broken and his personality united with his Lord, not merged but
united. "Ye shall be free indeed," free in essence, free from the
inside. We will insist on energy, instead of being energized into
identification with Jesus.
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