So,
my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you
might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we
might bear fruit to God. Romans 7:4
Mankind has fallen from a life in God into a life of self – a life of
self-love, self-esteem and self-seeking. God’s creatures choose to concentrate
on the perishing pleasures of the world. All sin, death, and hell are nothing
else but this kingdom of self.On the day of Pentecost a new dispensation of God came forth. On God’s part it was the operation of the Holy Spirit in gifts and graces upon the church. On our part it was the adoration of God in Spirit and Truth. All this was to make way for the continual operation of God to enable us, baptized with the Holy Spirit, to absolutely renounce self. We are to use our minds and all the outward things of the world only as enlightened and inspired by the Holy Spirit.
The kingdom of self is the fall of man and the great apostasy from the life of God. The kingdom of Christ is the Spirit and power of God manifesting itself in the birth of a new inward person. When the call of God to repentance comes in your soul [at any time, on any matter], be quiet before God in prayer and humbly attentive to the new life within you. Disregard the workings of your own will and reason. Then you will know the power and love of God in its fullness.
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