{"id":5710,"date":"2010-03-12T06:36:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T06:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/03\/liberated-from-legalism-6.html"},"modified":"2010-03-12T06:36:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T06:36:41","slug":"liberated-from-legalism-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/03\/liberated-from-legalism-6.html","title":{"rendered":"Liberated from Legalism 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/Freedom-11864.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/Freedom-thumb-333x267-11864.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"267\" alt=\"Freedom.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>Once again, we have been set free in Christ and the Spirit is adequate to guide us into all God wants of us. Again&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><b>Legalism is any practice or belief that is added to the gospel that compromises the sufficiency of Christ as Savior and jeopardizes the adequacy of the Spirit in moral guidance.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Legalism then is the charge against you or me, often sensed at the deepest level, that we are not accepted by God in Christ and indwellt by the Holy Spirit.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div>So, what can we do?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>6. We need to learn how to read the Bible through the lens of the Abrahamic promise instead of the Mosaic Torah. Paul&#8217;s most complex section, chps 3-4, is taken up with learning how to read the Bible all over again. What does he say?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n* He says we need to remember that we were empowered at the beginning, not by Torah works but by faith: 3:1-5.<\/p>\n<div>* He says God.justifies.all.by.faith: Gal 3:6-14.<\/div>\n<div>* He says the Law came after the promise and didn&#8217;t undo the promise: Gal 3:15-25.<\/div>\n<div>* He says the ground is level at the foot of the cross: we are all children of God: Gal 3:26-4:7.<\/div>\n<div>* He says there is a theologizing way of seeing Hagar and Sarah as symbols of slavery and freedom (4:21-31).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is how to read the Bible. It makes all the difference in the world.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>7. We need to listen to the logic of grace: grace needs nothing added. Gal 5:1-6.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>8. We need to follow the Spirit: the Spirit can guide us through love. Gal 5:16-26.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>9. 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