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“For if I (*ego) build again the things which I destroyed (*come back under the Law, despite Christ’s Cross), I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law (*Christ’s crucified and dead body, on the Cross) am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I (*ego) am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I (*ego), but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. [*Galatians 2: 18-21 (KJV)]”
“These (*The Law’s & The Prophets’… or Moses’ & Elijah’s… Testimony of The Lamb, revealed in and preached by The Bride!) have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. And when they (*The Bride) shall have finished their (*Moses’ & Elijah’s) testimony (*by bringing The Lamb to light!), the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. [*Revelation 11: 6-8 (KJV)]”
Ego says, “What could I (possibly) have done wrong, or be doing wrong, to deserve how I’ve been… or, how I’m being… treated by others?” There is that word, “deserve”…; implying that others owe us, are indebted unto us, because we feel that we have worked for a better paycheck than what we’ve been receiving from them. As if our being “good” in our own eyes, and in regard to our perceived performance or some grand-gestured “obedience” should guarantee for us that, “everything will be all right,” or “go according to plan” for us, or that God Himself should shield, protect, bless and promote our wrinkly, self-righteous asses! Our own goodness, really self-righteousness, has no power… absolute zero… to control life or the lives of others, let alone God Himself, unto our liking! Control is fear-based and fear-driven, a very manipulative and apparent manifestation of fear. There is no freedom to love others, genuinely, in any of it; just a perpetual pity-party that spirals downward continually into a very isolated, lonely, self-absorbed existence. There is none good, no, not one… including you, and including me. What it really boils down to, is a matter of the heart; the matter of whose righteousness we are truly trusting, in whose righteousness we are resting… never, "goodness".
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