Knowing this makes all the difference in the world.

8:2–3, 9–11 The Message) The real you is on the side of God against the false self. These teachers express why play is so vital to our professional paths, creativity, purpose, relationships, learning, personal well-being and connection to life. When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life.

if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won’t know what we’re talking about. His grip of me tightens, keeping me in place. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death. The battle is not between us and God no, there is a traitor within who wars against our true heart fighting alongside the Spirit of God in us: A new power is in operation. Yes, there is a war within us, but it is a civil war.

In the core of your being you are a good man. The New Testament calls you a saint, a holy one, a son of God. A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal. “The Big Lie in the church today is that you are nothing more than “a sinner saved by grace.” You are a lot more than that. Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

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