But the Truth is Resisted

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So it is the fact of our having no human nature, but self only being an expresser of the deity-spirit nature (formerly the false one and now the
true one) and our claiming this to be biblically true, that makes our “total truth” so radical. It leaves no more room for human self-activity, except as expression of a deity.

Here is where we have to ask where are the preachers or the writers of spiritual books who make this radical fact the fact, and thus give no more
room for exhortations to self-betterment? Actually, all the commands of the Scripture have become automatic action: “Of course that is how we
live, because it.is He fulfilling ‘the righteousness of the Law’ in us!” “Oh, how I love thy Law!” (Rom. 8:4; Ps. 119:97).

Why can few pastors accept this truth in its reality? Because it exchanges pastoral management of the flock for direct management by the Chief Shepherd, and the pastors leading the sheep to His direct leadership. Why will all believers start by opposing and resenting this radical reality?
It is because we live under the delusion of being self-operating selves merely helped by the Spirit, until that final delusion is exposed in Romans 7 and replaced in Romans 8.

How truly that great George Muller, the father of all present-day faith movements, once said, “There was a day on which I died!” And there’s no other way but that such a day comes in all our lives. But we fight and resist until at last we “see” it.