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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Moralism – the idea that we merit God’s favor by being good – is the deadly enemy of [the] Christian... Moralism trusts in its own goodness, virtue, and principled intentions to get a “not guilty” verdict from God on the Day of Judgment. It is deceptive. A cloak of morality over an unregenerate heart can make it difficult to discern [one’s] true spiritual condition.
William Farley

Legalism, properly understood, is not about Christians obeying too precisely. It is also not about individuals having convictions that are their own private resolves. It is about seeking to be justified by means of the law. When Jewish infiltrators came to the early believers and said that they must be circumcised and obey the Jewish feasts in order to be true Christians (Acts 15:1), then they demonstrated New Testament legalism. We do have Christians with a spirit akin to the legalist, but their sin is that of being unloving or distorting responsibility or placing private convictions on others, not true legalism. In most cases, they are not seeking to be justified by the law (Gal. 5:4).
Jim Elliff

    • I worship you, dear Lord

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    Sung to: George Winston’s adaptation of Goodnight Irene
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM1eIbhrmG8

    I worship you
    I worship you
    we thank you for all you do
    we all worship you

    Consider all my sins
    still I worship you Lord
    we thank you for all you do
    we all worship you

    For-give all my sins dear Lord
    for-give all of my sins
    I thank you for all you do
    and I will worship you

    Spotless and white, I am
    and I’m following you, my Lord
    the bride of Christ he’s preparing now
    we will soon be wed

    Heav-en – it’s grown quiet now
    the trumpets are raised for the blast
    I thank you for all you do
    the whole world will worship you
    and the world worships you

    I worship you, dear Lord
    I will worship you
    (piano only – individual worship)

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