YOUR BIGGEST PROBLEM ISN'T YOUR DEVIL BUT YOUR INGORANCE AND EGO.
EGO : is the "I" in everybody. This "I" is the self-aspect of us. Everybody must pass through this conscious level to be a blessing to OTHERS. This starts by a realization that, "I" is not physical and this "I" was created in the image and likeness of the great "I AM, THAT I AM" who is spiritual. The spiritul is the parental realm of the physical. All that is physical gets its strength from the spiritual. This ego is self oriented, it likes to judge and it can do anything to protect itself. If the ego remains in this state, it is dangerous to others, self and the enviroment. If you read isaiah you will see the most famous "i" of the devil, the father of all lies and ego. This ego has to die, and that will be the birth of the God in you. Thats why we can never talk about death to self without the cross of calvary. Its only by the cross of calvary was the ego of humanity ever been addressed. Christ in Jesus was egoless and Jesus who was the physical body of Christ had his ego. He battled himself before the cross, he reached to this most famous words of Jesus, father if its your will possible let this cup pass me by, never the less not my will but your will. Ego most of the time wants to do its own will, it doesn't have enough room to consider other will but its will, in the garden of gestsmene, the ego's will was in trouble, it had to die to self. This was the ego test Adam failed in the garden of eden. The I am told Adam of every tree in the garden you shall surely it, but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you should not eat. Adam was given abundance of grace and one law, because of his ego, he overlooked the abundance of the grace in the garden of eden and he wanted more, his ego led him to eat that which was forbiden of the law as if he had finished with all that was given to him by grace. In other words Adam said in eden, "Father not your will but my will" and as a result sin came in. And in the garden of gestemene Jesus said, "not my will but your will" and rightousness came in. This is what is what to die to self is all about. It means you are dead with Christ, its nolonger you that live but "the Christ in you". All the fleshly works you used to do, you are now consciously dead to them. if you find yourself you are still doing the things you claim to be dead to them, its a sign that in your consciousness you haven't grasped it that you are dead. Its only the divine presence that now resides in you that lives through you. that the life you now live in the flesh it is by faith in the son of God, who loved you and died for you. Remind yourself always, that you are dead to self, and this isn't a physical thing but a spiritual thing, it require you to believe you are dead, then newly born again and you live in the flesh being led by the spirit. Don't try to be dead to self, you are dead to self, the cross killed, your ego, pride, and all the attachments you have to this world. i have heard many believers say they are dead to self, whilst they were boosting up their ego, which means they weren't truely dead. Dead people are dead, they don't talk, walk or do things. Be conscious that you are now a God container from the day you affirmed (Romans 10:9-10). The more you try to dead, that is the more you become alive to self and ego. the more you say what God say about you, that if you are in Christ you are a new creature, behold the old is passed away and everything has become new. This will set you free from all the things the 10 commandments could not set you free. The truth shall set you free and who-so-ever the son sets free is free indeed.
Further readings: Galations whole chapter 2, Romans 10, Romans 6.
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