Matthew 7 Cont'd
A
Tree and its Fruit
Our
world doesn't lack its ideologies and philosophies, for good advice
you only need to enter a book store or library, there's a ton of it.
These ideas may work for a while but they can't sustain an individual
for their life's span, for they rely solely on a person's ability to
change their own life. This temptation affects us all, even us
attempting to follow Christ. We can easily fall into a
“Do-It-Yourself” Religion.
It
was Martin Luther that described legalism as the natural state of the
heart. So how do we keep from boiling down our faith to set of rules
when the Bible that we will be recognized as true believers by our
fruits (our actions and what we produce)? By learning to love God.
Friends,
God knows we will be tempted and that even when we want to do good,
we can't always do it (see Romans 7). God doesn't expect us to be
good on our own. Romans 8:1-10: God does the work that we could never
do for ourselves. God works through us by the power of His Spirit, it
is by it that He gives us the life sought on the narrow path (Romans
8:11).
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