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WALKING UPRIGHTLY OR NOT UPRIGHTLY?
If the message preached, and the message you delight in, does not declare Christ to be the end of the law for righteousness, to be your Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption, then Paul wrote to the Galatians that it is not walking “uprightly according to the truth of the gospel.” The following is from the book of Galatians. Mixing the law with grace does this:
· Proves one a transgressor against God (Galatians 2: 18.)
· Counts Christ death vanity (Galatians 2: 21.)
· Proves one thinks they are sanctified by the work of their flesh (Galatians 3:3.)
· Puts one under the curse of the law (Galatians 3: 10.)
· Claims God’s salvation to be by law instead of by promise (Galatians 3: 18.)
· Claims justification to be by law instead of faith (Galatians 3: 24.)
· Promotes self-righteousness and division by making men think their works make the difference between them and other men (Galatians 3: 28.)
· Counts the work of God’s true messenger’s vanity (Galatians 4: 11.)
· Proves one to be the son of the bondwoman, serving Mt. Sinai, rather than Jerusalem which is above and free (Galatians 4: 22-25.)
· Proves one a persecutor against believers who walk in the Spirit (Galatians 4: 29.)
· Makes Christ of no effect unto you (Galatians 5: 4.)
· Makes the offense (truth) of the cross to cease before men (Galatians 5: 11.)
· Makes church’s bite and devour one another (Galatians 5: 15.)
· Proves one is driven by the law instead of led by the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5: 18.)
· Proves one is unable to crucify the flesh, to live in the Spirit and walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5: 24-25.)
· Oppresses others so as to glory in what you forced them to do rather than in Christ (Galatians 6: 13.)
“As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead” (Colossians 2: 6-12.)Clay Curtis.