Being Labeled Legalistic For Obeying God's Word

 

 

Jason Bryant

 

 

     There is an ignorance amongst Western society (American) Christendom.  Every true redeemed child of God by the blood and grace of Jesus, believes...accents...knows experientially that we are saved from condemnation to hell, by Christ's propitiation for our inherent wickedness, our stench in the Holy nostrils of God.  Thank you Jesus for your suffering my deserved sentence.  Okay, with that out of the way, let us understand sanctification, fruits and works that truly believing and receiving grace CALLS and EMPOWERS the child of the Way to live in Christ.

    Now our sins have been crushed onto the innocent Son of God, suffering our sentence at the bar of God's justice, we are expected, implied, a command if one is to be a true disciple of Christ, claim Him as Savior, submit to His Lordship....repentance changing the volitional, mind, heart, soul, being (Jason Bryant) comes a word that is a staple of sanctification and growing in Christ likeness, you know... little Christ.  That whole "Be ye doers of the Word, not hearers only." That the Holy Spirit penned through Jesus' half brother James.  Now when those who begin to obey the words Jesus spoke, God spoke, out of a grace born desire and devotion to honor their Lord and Savior, ignorant Christians who dwell in the flesh, flirt with the world, base their walk of the Way on their "feelings" flesh, not of God, or their mind and intellect (flesh) not of God scream Legalism!  Legalistic! Friend, after justification, we are told to go and strive to sin no more, walk in faith, walk in the Spirit, reject friendship with the world!  It's in your Bible too, IF you are not reading those horrendous mistranslated editions, black letter words, and red letter words.  We are told not to walk in the flesh, be a called out people, separate from the world.  We are talking sanctification which is after salvation, after grace,  "If you love Me, YOU WILL KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS."  Red letter Jesus words.  Go ahead a scream legalism, I in love rebuke you to pick up the Word (Jesus) and learn the difference between Justification and Growing in Christ.  The latter requires an act of our will empowered by grace.  Hear Paul in Ephesians 4 for yourself, and quit making excuses to enjoy darling sins!  "

⁷ But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
⁸ Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
⁹ (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
¹⁰ He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
¹¹ And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
¹² For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
¹³ Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
¹⁴ That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
¹⁵ But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
¹⁶ From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
¹⁷ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
¹⁸ Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
¹⁹ Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
²⁰ But ye have not so learned Christ;
²¹ If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
²² That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
²³ And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
²⁴ And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness."

Some choices on our part folks, because of grace, not cheap get out of hell fire insurance that only dishonors Christ Whom was crushed for our sins.