But you can't live life like that, you can't live life saying it's Christ, it's Christ because it's you living it, and you move to the next stage, it's I. Now as we say that's open to being taught up by a fellow Christian to whom it sounds blasphemous or presumptuous, who don't think that you know, but this is the kind of presumption that bothered them in the Bible, Jesus himself is conscious of faith, and these men like Paul and Moses they spoke with confidence that manna will come tomorrow, strike the rock and water comes out, and all these things all the way through, speaking words of confidence because Moses actually said that, he said unless this thing happens, that was over when the earth would open to swallow up all of the by them, he said you'll know tomorrow whether I spoke it of my own mind, he said I didn't speak it of my own mind, suddenly it came through my mind, I didn't, you will see tomorrow I did not speak it of my own mind, I spoke it, but it was God's mind by me, that's how we live, and so we move therefore into a, it seems dangerous to say it like that, but I would say from a Christ glorification to a self -glorification, understanding that self -glorification means you're glorifying him in your human form, and you laugh at yourself, you're just only an old vessel, you're only an old pot, you're only just a branch, but he is expressed as you, by you, and you operate in confidence, and you begin to live at ease, because you won't accept the shots of condemnation, well no I spoke that word, I managed it that way, I did, and you dare to say well that isn't I as Christ, and he's taken on by his grace to relate to, to join himself to me and make himself my permanent centre, and so I'm saying it, and yet I'm saying it looks like me, he said that word, he expressed that opinion, now I don't think I can spend more time, because we've spent several of these sessions seeking to underline that, I think I should raise with that the other question, which is what about all the things in life which seem to pull me away from this, all the temptations and experiences in life, when I'm a bothered person, I'm a tempted person, there's so much of the negative that pulls me, how does that fit into this new dimension of self -confidence we're talking about, and that we need to have the, as a complete answer to that, as we have about what we just talked about, of the area of our self -conscious, which is really a Christ Confidence, the answer to this, the solution to this, is first of all to recognize that our privileged place, it's remaining in the world, which is not full of Christ Affirmation, but full of self -affirmation, of the wrong form of self -affirmation, the whole world consists of, in the power of the Bible says the world lies in the wicked one, the world's beautiful, but in the hands of the wicked one, is a self -confident person, self -centred person, self -loving self, Satan, so the whole world misses self -gratifying self, self -loving self, self -seeking self, the end of life being self -ends, the opposite of Christ, which Christ is our other loving person, seeking other people, the solution to other people's problems, not my own, the opposite, so we've now become people, the basis of our life is Christ, it's self -giving motivation, we live in a world which is geared to self -loving motivation, self -gratifying motivation, the other way around, therefore the whole world is like a great area of temptation to us, to pull us back, because the world lies in the pull back to the old kind of self, therefore we now face this fact in the middle of affirming who we are and acting as who we are, being free to do so, being bold to do so, yet there continually come negative diversions, things which pull us off into worry or hate or resentment or doubt or hurt or lust, things that build up ourselves, self -gratifying self, pride, all these things keep pouring in us, they pull at us, now let's face squarely, that's why we're here, we're here to be that, because our privilege is to be a light in a dark place, that we're to shine, as Paul says, a light shining in the darkness, and the darkness is, the word darkness doesn't mean out of darkness, it means darkness is self -loving self, self -centered self, that's darkness, because light is God who is self -giving self, if God is light and God is self -giving self, if God is self -giving love, the opposite is darkness, so we're not talking about material, you're talking about darkness, it's the quality of life, which is self -centered self, our own life, Satan's life, light, quality of light is self -giving self, which is God, that's why when you're saved, you get a sense of light into you, inner light is inspiration, it isn't the outer, oh I know, see outer light, oh I see, because of the sun, I can see that, the sun shines, I can see that, and the sun makes me able to see things, oh I see that, so it brings us into a consciousness of the thing being so, now the inner light of salvation is, oh I see, I see Jesus, that's the inner light, oh I see, Jesus is my saviour, you've got inner light, you've come to life, to a new dimension, the Jesus dimension, the Holy Spirit dimension, oh I see, he's my father, that's the new birth, it brings you into the light, that's the light, the true light within you, it's swallowed up, the old darkness is shown in you, new self -centered self and so on, now we have to understand that we are inwardly this light, consciously, we're Jesus and so on, and yet we're in a world which is all the opposite, which pulls us back to being true to yourself, fear for yourself, plan for yourself, scheme for yourself, hate those who hurt you, be hurt when you're hurt, grab what you can, fulfill all your lusts and appetites if you want to, the whole life is self -gratification and we live in that pull, so don't let's kill ourselves, don't let's think this means although I am in a new dimension and live freely in it, this is the paradox, I live freely yet I'm living in a dimension, an area which is the opposite, it pulls the opposite way and I'm continually going to get those impacts on me because that's the value of my humanity, to be human I've got to respond to my environment, human means you respond to your environment, you're only alive because your eye can see, your ear can hear, you respond to your environment, your body feels, that proves your life, your body responds to the things that appeal to your body, your eye responds to the environment, it's what life is, therefore I'm still in this human and I respond to my environment, it's a very much a self -centered environment, pulling me away from the new light I have in seeing things as I do, I haven't discussed that link, the way we see things as always the kingdom of God, we haven't discussed that further on that level, so now that's what we call temptation, now the first therefore understanding we have to have on that level, you will always be a tempted person, how do I know?