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The Deception of Legalism: Why the System of Performance Fails
The journey of faith begins with a profound encounter with the Holy Spirit, yet many believers find themselves “bewitched” into a system of performance. In our latest teaching on Galatians 3:1-14, we confront the spiritual crisis that faced the early church—and continues to challenge us today: the attempt to perfect in the flesh what was initiated by the Spirit.
The Logic of the Gospel
The Apostle Paul’s message to the Galatians is an indictment of “foolishness”—not a lack of intelligence, but a failure to apply the logic of the Gospel. If salvation is a gift received through the “hearing of faith,” it is impossible to maintain or mature that salvation through the “works of the Law.”
The teaching explores three critical pillars of our standing before God:
- The Witness of Experience: Recalling the moment you received the Spirit and the miracles that followed, which happened entirely apart from your adherence to a checklist.
- The Precedent of Abraham: Understanding that the father of our faith was justified by belief centuries before the Law of Moses ever existed.
- The Great Exchange: Confronting the reality that the Law is a system of a curse for those who fail its standard of perfection. Christ became that curse for us, hanging on a tree to unlock the blessing of the Spirit.
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