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Agree or disagree?
What is the basis upon which we make our decisions?
What do we use to establish law?
Our life will put into clear focus that which we hold as a standard and that which we reject.
As Christians, we have one standard and that is God.
He is the basis for all authority, all truth, and all practice.
Today’s message will give us a chance to think about whether or not our lives are in agreement (in Accord) or in disagreement with God.
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False teachers don’t make truth . . .
untrue.
They claim to know the truth . . . the law of God.
But their actions make it clear that they don’t even understand it.
In our culture you will hear people say, “If that is what God is like then I don’t want anything to do with him.”
“If God won’t let me be me then I reject him.”
What they are doing is subtly changing the truth so that they can claim that God is on their side because their own version of truth can’t possibly be wrong.
Paul warns Timothy to keep these people from teaching false doctrine.
These teachers missed the point of God’s law and were teaching lies.
The Point of the Law
1 Timothy 1:9 (ESV) 9 understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane,
What is the law for . . . it exists to show us our sin.
Who is the law for:
The lawless
The Ungodly
The sinners
The unholy
The profane
Those who strike their parents
The murderers
The sexually immoral
Those who practice homosexuality
The enslavers
The perjurers
People living according to false doctrine.
It is not for the just.
In accordance with the Gospel
The two ways we go astray:
Willfulness
Willfulness take something good that God gave us and turns it into a means by which we defy God.
Legalism
Legalism is the result of our willfulness and with it comes awareness of our need for God.
On one hand we believe we know better than God and can “save” ourselves.
i.e. my truth
On the other hand we believe that our own righteous ability to obey the law (and alter it to meet our standards) will make us worthy of being saved.
i.e. the good person.
The Psalmist gets it right.
Are you prone to willfulness or legalism.
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