There are two basic views of Christianity in the professing church:
1) Christianity reforms, improves, teaches and helps Self succeed. Christ died on the cross so you could be you, only better.
2) Christianity does away with Self. Christ died on the cross and you died with Him, it is no longer I who lives but Christ who lives in me.
Type 1 Christianity is no Christianity at all. It’s self-help with Jesus tacked on. It does not see the suffering and death of Christ as payment for sin, but as an ugly episode on the way to helping God make you all you can be.
Type 2 Christianity is what the Bible teaches. This is it. This is what the whole Bible is about–the getting rid of you and the elevation of the glory of God in Christ Jesus.
Don’t play around with pseudo-Christianity. Take the real deal or quit playing the game. At the point of salvation YOU ARE DONE! This is bad news for your flesh nature; this is complete victory for the Spiritual Man.
Thanks to the supremacy of Christ, I’m done!