It's a devilish trick to say, “put off, put off, put off,” when you really don't know who you are. You think that you're a duality, both good and bad. You're being told to put off something that you've been taught is one of your natures. You're not settled yet in who your nature really is. You still think you are two. And you get frustrated and think, “Why tell me to put off something that is natural for me to do? I've had this habit for years. Why tell me to put it off, if it's my nature?” So you get mad at God. You think He is telling yo to suppress part of your true self. It's all because you don't know yet who you truly are.
You only have one nature. It's natural for you to put off sin, because sin is not your nature. You are already dead to it.— The Rest of the Gospel: When the partial Gospel has worn you out, page 94
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Why do we allow the enemy to steal our identity? Well, he can't really, but we allow him to lie to us, which amounts to the same thing. We don't really believe we are what (and who) God says we are.
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