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EPISODE · Jul 24, 2025 · 16 MIN

040 Knowing the Self #2 — ‘Useless, Judged, and Given Over: The End of Self’

from Firm Foundation Focus · host Alex Gray

You didn’t just fall. He let you. This isn’t the start of healing. It’s the beginning of the end. Because what’s being exposed here isn’t weakness — it’s self. And self must die. In this second episode of Knowing the Self, we step deeper into the judgment already passed on the self-life. God does not wait for self to improve — He has already condemned it.📘 Drawing from the second section of Watchman Nee’s The Messenger of the Cross (linked in the description), Alex reads and teaches through three cutting truths that expose why collapse may be your greatest mercy:1️⃣ “But it is we who need these defeats and falls, for without them we are not able to know ourselves.”2️⃣ “He allows us to sin, to fall, and to draw back. All these will cause us to know how utterly corrupted beyond natural help we are.”3️⃣ “Self is always useless, is always judged by God, and should therefore continually be delivered to death.”Ask Yourself:→ Have I viewed my fall as failure — or as mercy?→ Am I still surprised by sin — because I haven’t yet seen how corrupt self really is?→ Do I agree with the Father’s judgment of self — or am I still trying to make it useful?📘 Free PDF of The Messenger of the Cross is linked here: https://issacharpropheticcity.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/the-messenger-of-the-cross.pdf📘Listener's Guide Here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing📘‘Toxic Love’ by Malcolm Smith:https://amzn.eu/d/3MyQTmz

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