The following is from Knight of Faith, Volume II, a collection of Norman Grubb's personal correspondence. This is what he replied to one writer who corresponded with him:
". . . you ARE THROUGH in the fact that when Satan expressed his nature by you in your unsaved days, now by the body-death of Jesus, Satan is out for keeps and Christ is in--fixed. Satan gets at us by outer temptation, but those are only external scratches, and NEVER TAKE CONDEMNATION for those (Ro. 8:1), for Jesus was perfectly tempted, but that's not sin!
"Then as you accept the right of Satan to get at you as we are in his world, we are then free to say we've 'died to him' [Mr. Sin], and we recognise ourselves as Christ in us as us [i.e., living our lives], and we turn the negative temptations into positive channels for love in place of hate, faith in place of fear etc--so temptations are assets (James 1!).
"And also we now discover our human selves were never either bad or good, but with no nature of their own, express the deity nature [either the Lord Jesus or the god of this world, Satan]; and so we get back our precious selves which God created as His means of expression. We've changed vines of which we were and now are branches (Branches have no nature of their own!). Rom 6:21, 22!
"So Rise up, dear one, affirm who you ARE, out of Rom. 7, permanently in Rom. 8, and as you confess with your mouth you live in Gal. 2:20, the Spirit will confirm to you that you are now He [living] in your form."
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