“The need of the experience of self in the seventh of Romans is the need of learning practically to abide in Christ at all times, to accept Him for practical life as well as for position. And here we may have to find, what is a thing strange enough in the discovery, that a pious and right-willing self may stand in the way of this, and need to be set aside, that Christ may have the place that He must needs have with all His own. “I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me,” says the apostle (Gal. 2:20). That is another thing from saying “Christ is my life,” to say “Christ lives in me.” It is a practical substitution (for faith) of Christ for the saint on earth, as real as His substitution for the sinner on the cross. In death, He was the sinner’s substitute; in life, He is the saint’s.”
EQUIPPING THE SAINTS 