MINISTERIAL WARNING… If one cannot distinguish between (a) striving to keep the law to OBTAIN a righteousness that satisfies God, one that is apart from (and thus opposed to) the finished work of Christ on the cross and (b) endeavouring to live uprightly, in accordance with God’s extant law (i.e. all of the imperatives/commands for us today), out of genuine love and thanksgiving towards Him, having *already been made perfectly righteous in Christ Jesus* — then one should not be a bible teacher, let alone a pastor or preacher in the pulpit. All of God’s true people know the blessed spiritual reality and great worth of His extant law, and should desire to walk in accordance with it, as the Holy Spirit enables.
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
