Galatians 2:20 as Fact

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We were balding through in faith to the personal affirmation of Galatians 2:20. We had been “crucified with Christ” and thus, in His Calvary death, had died to sin—to the indwelling of that false sin-spirit of error and then had been joined to Christ in His resurrection. So we took the place by faith and spoke the word of faith that “nevertheless I live: yet not I, but Christ lives in me.” We settled that by our declared word of faith by about 4 a.m.

The Spirit Himself bore His witness to us, according to 1 John 5:10. For Pauline, it was within a couple of weeks, and for me after a couple of
years. Inwardly we knew that it was now and forever He living our lives in our human forms. We began that glorious experience of living our daily normal lives and fulfilling our calling by what Paul called “the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me” (vs. 20).

Not by our faith in Him, but by His inner knowing imparted to us “the faith of the Son of God”—He was establishing us. This knowing confirmed that it was He now in us as us. He was the light of the world (John 8:12). But no, we were the light of the world (Matt. 5:14)! It was we being He in our lamb forms, and we accepting ourselves and operating as ourselves.

This, too, had its necessary “dying” to the self-effort life. We had to discover by Romans 7 that it was really Satan, the god of self-effort, false
independent self, making us think self-effort was ourselves. Then at last, like Paul in Romans 7:17 and 20, we saw it was really Satan expressing his lying, independent self-life through us.

And by that discovery, we moved over, as in Galatians 2:20, to Satan being out for keeps in his working us up into false self-effort living. Now,
in place of him, our living Christ was His living Self in our forms; and we moved into an effortless life of activity, which was He expressing Himself as us.