Regardless of whether he knows the biblical account, if there’s one thing a man does know he knows he is made to come through. A man bears the image of God in his strength, not so much physically but soulfully. The dream has nothing to do with acting that’s just the context for my fear. This is every man’s deepest fear: to be exposed, to be found out, to be discovered as an impostor, and not really a man. I don’t know what part I’m supposed to be playing I don’t know my lines I don’t even know my cues. A play is under way and I’ve got a crucial part.

The house lights are low and the stage lights full, so from my position onstage I can barely make out the audience, but I sense it is a full house. This is how it goes: I suddenly find myself in a theater-a large, Broadway-style playhouse, the kind every actor aspires to play. In spite of the fact that my memories of theater are nearly all happy ones, I keep having this recurring nightmare. I tell you this so that you will understand what I am about to reveal. My wife was part of the theater company I managed, and we had many close friends there. I was young and energetic and pretty good at what I did.

Knowing this makes all the difference in the world.They were, for the most part, joyful years. 8:2–3, 9–11 The Message) The real you is on the side of God against the false self. 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. 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. “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.

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