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Wednesday November 5, 2025

An exchange of operators

“I saw the truth about ourselves through Paul’s Roman letter. He constantly underlines that our human ‘I’ is nothing but a vessel that contains, a branch producing its vine’s fruit, a servant (slave) working only at the beck and call of his owner, a wife reproducing the seed of her husband, a temple indwelt by its god. Our human selves never were self-operating or self-relying, but only express and reproduce the products of our owner.

I saw that my ‘I’ that was crucified with Christ was an ‘I’ that was expressing its owner and operator. My ‘I’ had been the expresser of that false ‘god of this world’ and ‘spirit of error,’ which works in all the children of disobedience (all of us while unsaved). So when Paul says that I am crucified with Christ, he means that my ‘I’ went into death and resurrection with my Intercessor Savior, who was ‘made sin’ as me on Calvary (2 Cor. 5:21). In His death I am freed forever from the false spirit of error indweller; and by His resurrection I am now occupied, when I have responding faith, by the Spirit of Truth as fixed, eternal, total Indweller.

What is so radical, and meets with so much questioning and opposition as even heretical, is that my crucified ‘I’ is the very same ‘I’ that now lives. The difference is not and never was in the human ‘I’ container, but wholly in the deity-spirit in possession of my ‘I.’ But that is hard to recognize and accept because of the false concept of my ‘I’ being independent and self-operating.

Really, we have been run since the Fall by that false Satan-deity (Rev. 12:9). That includes much of the lives of us newborn ones, until through sheer desperation we have moved in by faith from our first saved and justified relationship to our real reality of now being indwelt vessels by our Christ-Indweller. Only by His body-death did He cast out forever the false indweller. So it never was a change in our beautiful God-created ‘I’ with its great potential, but only an exchange of who is operating our ‘I.’”

Taken from: Intercession in Action

By Norman Grubb

Pages 44-45