WALKING UPRIGHTLY OR NOT UPRIGHTLY?<\/p>\n
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 \u201cuprightly according to the truth of the gospel.\u201d\u00a0 The following is from the book of Galatians.\u00a0 Mixing the law with grace does this:<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Proves one a transgressor against God (Galatians 2: 18<\/a>.)<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Counts Christ death vanity (Galatians 2: 21<\/a>.)<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Proves one thinks they are sanctified by the work of their flesh (Galatians 3:3<\/a>.)<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Puts one under the curse of the law (Galatians 3: 10<\/a>.)<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Claims God\u2019s salvation to be by law instead of by promise (Galatians 3: 18<\/a>.)<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Claims justification to be by law instead of faith (Galatians 3: 24<\/a>.)<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Promotes self-righteousness and division by making men think their works make the difference between them and other men (Galatians 3: 28<\/a>.)<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Counts the work of God\u2019s true messenger\u2019s vanity (Galatians 4: 11<\/a>.)<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Proves one to be the son of the bondwoman, serving Mt. Sinai, rather than Jerusalem which is above and free (Galatians 4: 22-25<\/a>.)<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Proves one a persecutor against believers who walk in the Spirit (Galatians 4: 29<\/a>.)<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Makes Christ of no effect unto you (Galatians 5: 4<\/a>.)<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Makes the offense (truth) of the cross to cease before men (Galatians 5: 11<\/a>.)<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Makes church\u2019s bite and devour one another (Galatians 5: 15<\/a>.)<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Proves one is driven by the law instead of led by the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5: 18<\/a>.)<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Proves one is unable to crucify the flesh, to live in the Spirit and walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5: 24-25<\/a>.)<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oppresses others so as to glory in what you forced them to do rather than in Christ (Galatians 6: 13<\/a>.) 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 \u201cuprightly according to the truth of the gospel.\u201d\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-clay-curtis","category-walking-in-the-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3940,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cAs 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.\u00a0 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:\u00a0 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:\u00a0 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\u201d (Colossians 2: 6-12<\/a>.)Clay Curtis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"