“It is the absence of the grace message that is causing the church to fall into bondage” Jim Richards
“Trying to keep the law makes Christ of no effect or of no benefit at all “.Gal 5:2 Mk 7:13. That says a lot to me and the dead works of performance explains failures in my life and also the inability of many churches to function in a healthy manner. The law is a slave and those who follow it end up failing. This principle is throughout the New Covenant. The Law may be good Rom 7:12, but if you climb the ladder of performance, it will fall with you or you fall with it! Naturally punishment comes with it. Have you ever considered why churches are misfiring. We can say we are all fired up, but if grace is not working through us, the fire goes out. I just read an amazing book on the history of revivals, but they none of those revivals whether Welsh or Asuza or US campus remained. Was law the obstacle?” It was not our works of keeping the law but our faith in His finished work that makes us right with God.” Rom 3:27 TPT Version. Throughout the new covenant (Rom 3-7 etc) Right Believing = Right Living is unavoidable. I counted about 70 times that this is noted in Rom 3-5. Just 3 chapters – obviously a big reason for being there. God foresaw the issues coming up and already had the answer in grace. Trying to keep the 10 commandments or being a law keeper has enslaved congregations unknowingly. Keeping the law does not require faith, but self-effort. Gal.3:12 TPT. Most preachers have no intention of creating the results of the law, but this is what happens when we do not
