No independent me? Now there's good news.

There isn't much good news in the world, but there sure is good news in Jesus. The message of Christ's salvation is breaking out all over the globe. What the church may have forgotten to teach us for years Daddy is making sure we hear it now. Of course truth is a Person, Jesus the Christ, and the good news is all about Him. But it has a major impact on us, and on our daily lives.
The notion of the deception of an independent self has come to me quite recently through our brother Norman Grubb. Basically the revelation he received from Holy Spirit through Romans 6-8 was that there never was an independent Norman. Norman was always a vessel, a branch, a dwelling place. Before he was born again Norman housed, if you like, the nature of satan in his spirit. So naturally he would manifest that nature. But here is the deception. Norman in that condition believed he was an independent human being just living his own life, not a branch containing the life of satan. In this condition he had no problem with sin because he just did what he wanted to do not thinking that he was living and independent life, when in truth he was living a dependent life. Whether he lived a good life or a bad life, remember the tree of the knowledge of GOOD, and EVIL; he was still manifesting the nature of satan.
So Norman gets born again and has his old nature circumcised away by Christ in crucifixion. He enters into Christ's death, resurrection, and ascension. He gets a new identity, a son of God, and a new nature (life) Christ in Norman the hope of glory. Only trouble is he starts off his new life with the same deception that he is an independent self and now has to 'live' for God. Naturally he soon runs into trouble. The church doesn't help as it keeps teaching him to 'do' things for God instead of emphasising his new nature. So Norman fails to control his up and down lifestyle. He has no power, he is still entangled with certain sinful habits, and all seems lost. He is wretched.
Then God points out his error. Norman is still just a branch, a vessel, a house, a temple. But now he contains Jesus the Christ, and Jesus want's to live His life in and through Norman. So Norman has to learn that he is not independent at all. He is in fact dead and his new life is hidden with Christ in God. So now he lives by faith that it is Christ manifesting His life through his personality now. I hope Norman won't mind me using him as an example as he is now in the presence of Daddy and I don't think he will mind at all.
This morning I came across this in Chapter 2 of the book of Ephesians. Paul said that we were made alive by God even when we were dead by our trespasses and sins. We were obedient to and under the control of the demon spirit that still constantly works in the sons of disobedience. verses 1-2. Amp. We were sons of satan before we became sons of God. We were in fact carrying around a deities nature. Only in our Adamic nature it was a false god, satan. Now we are regenerated and have the real divine nature, Christ in us. So there is no Jesus and me. I'm not living for God, He is living through me. I can't live the Christian life, and God never intended me to. He not only wanted to buy me back from the slave market of satan and sin, but He wanted to give me a new identity, and a new life. Now I live by faith that it is Jesus living in and through me, and Love will take care of everything. If it's not grace, it's not good news.
If you want to read some of Norman Grubb's revelation go to Lighthouse Library.