If salvation is all of grace, then it is opposed to our natural inclination. Not just being in bondage to sin. It is our natural inclination to sin under the bondage to sin, but our love of our own righteousness is part of our hard heartiness. So that our will being in bondage to the love of the law also has a history of habitually inclined toward the objects of our lust as part of our lust in our understanding the world by our love for the self deception of how we are better by that. And if we come into our salvation with some of our old sinful habits, then we also are going to go through our addiction to the love of our own righteousness.
If the law was the principle way of experiencing freedom of the will, then how could we mortify that addiction to self righteousness? So that there is a cause of learning to live in Christ that is the opposite of the ordinary way of law keeping. The opposite way is training our desires by grace.
Substitution is the way of learning to think in a way that is beyond our understanding as a definition of having spiritual assurance and confidence in a dispositional way. It is that which in our newness of life , that we cannot focus on as our natural view of overcoming our dispositional consciousness of our legal trust. In this way we are always having a queer and odd collusion in our self reflective awareness. The truth is that we are so identified with Christ that we no longer are aware of our legal reflective habit. But we have many voices in this newness that are so familiar as having a false confidence by the physical eye toward those who are mis applying this secret habit, as the world and even the Christian world hardly ever come to the understanding of living without condemnation in the inward disposition of grace. And since there are very few examples, then we are left to overcome this disposition through many dangers and toils. This is the natural war of a liberated believer.
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