“Cursed Is Everyone Who Hangs on a Tree.”

When our old man is crucified with Christ, that means that we are a cursed thing in the eyes of God (according to the flesh—as natural people). We must also become a cursed thing in our own eyes (according to the flesh) so that we do not pay heed to anything that comes from self and do not rely on our own understanding or feelings.

This is how all kinds of imagined greatness falls away, likewise much discussion and argument. Whoever sees himself as a cursed being according to the flesh has, in truth, found the right way, and it will help him to be well pleasing in the eyes of God and men. Above all, it will help each and every one to make this life of being crucified with Christ a reality.