by Bill Brady

You have done a lot of dying.

• I should clarify, it’s a dying to.
• You died once with Jesus.
• This happened when you were baptized.
• Death is a separation.

Three Separations

• First separation is from sin.
• It is a separation from dead works and to living works.
• Believe that you have been separated from dead works to living works and you experience the separation.
• It is faith in Jesus’ work for you on the cross.
• Second separation is from self-government.
• Jesus is our King.
• Until we are separated from our self-government we remain king.
• Again, it is by faith in having died with Him on the cross.

The third separation is from self.

• Until this happens we have a record of our past and live from that record of a sense of who we have been.
• Until then we are a reflection of both who we are in Jesus and who we have always been.
• We believe to this final separation and then we are only who we are in Christ.
• We still have memory of our past but that person is no longer in our present.

The Bible doesn’t use a word for self or ego.

• It simply uses the word “I” in a way that is clearly full of self in a negative way or not.
• The word “I” either contains humility or pride.
• It contains self-exaltation or the humility that comes before God exalts us..
• We have this idea in mind when we say that someone is “full of himself.”
• This is the “I” that Satan used when he said “I will” about becoming like God.
• This is the “I” that Adam and Eve first spoke after the fall.
• This the “I” that has the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil as its source.
• These two “Is” are seen in Paul’s statement, “I am crucified with Christ and I no longer live.”
• Paul’s proud “I” died.
• He was separated from that “I”.
• His humble “I” remained.
• This is the “I” that has the Tree of Life as its source.
• This is the “I” that remains.

Untethering and Tethering

• This is an untethering from the old and a tethering to the new.( unless you operate from eternity where tethering automatically untethers .
• I think of Spiderman web-shooting his way over a city street.
• He shoots  a web to the new building ahead of him.
• Then he releases his web from the old building behind him.
• By doing this he swings above the street from building to building.
• The full process of separation involves three rounds of untethering and  tethering.
• We untether from or proud old creation “I”.
• We tether to our humble new creation “I”.
• Only our new creation “I” remains.

This will be experienced as a series of mandates.

• You will flow with each of these mandates.
• Until you reach a full and final separation.