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Wednesday July 17, 2024
At the point of desperation
“Paul found a solution to his misery. He was not able to combat temptations under the pointing finger of the law’s ‘you ought to.’ The solution was the radical revelation that he never was an independent self combating temptation and challenged by the law. He came to see his created self (as are all selves) as the mere container and then expresser of the Eternal Self. We are all created to contain and express the Eternal Self. But we have to learn that nothing functions except by swallowing up its opposite. We learn the operation of God’s opposite by yielding our human selves to the Satan occupant, resulting in ‘sin that dwelleth in me’. We are tricked into believing that we run ourselves (as Satan thinks he runs himself) and that we ourselves are the sin persons doing the sins. But we are only branches, not vines.”
Taken from: No Independent Self
By Norman Grubb
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