You,
however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the
Spirit of God lives in you. Romans 8:9
Perhaps
the major problem of most of the Lord’s people is to keep that line of division
between what we are in ourselves and what Christ is in us. The great line of
attack on the part of the enemy is to bring what we are ourselves continually
up into view and occupy us with that, and by so doing obscure Christ. The great
object of the Holy Spirit in His opposing of Satan is to bring Christ into view
and to occupy us with Him to the obscuring of ourselves. That is where the
great difficulty arises for most of the Lord’s people. There is always this
beat back, this drive back to get us occupied with ourselves, as to what we
are, to keep us from being occupied with Christ and what He is; in some way to
get that gap, that gulf, that separation filled up, and the line of demarcation
obliterated, so that there is confusion. God begins with the Firstborn. That
implies something altogether other than what we are, and it is important to see
what God says, and how God views those who are represented as being in Christ,
and in whom Christ is....
When Christ is in
us, God views us through Christ. Oh, that we might recognize this, that in
Christ in us, there is the embodiment of God’s thought, and He is able to speak
so of us. His activities with us are all in relation to the Christ who is now
by the Holy Spirit in us, and in Whom we are. The fact that the Firstborn is
invariably connected with death and resurrection is God’s way of saying that
what we are in ourselves by nature is buried from His standpoint, and it is His
Son alone who obtains where we are concerned as a risen One, the only One who
lives before Him. All else are dead and buried in the sight of God, and God
would have us take that attitude. Remember that we are dead and buried
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