Legalism/Cross/Obedience

We'll see if I can get this to post correctly or not.

Attempting to fine tune my thinking on Legalism/Cross/Obedience...I have found the following very helpful. And it's not from Octavius.

Here are a couple posts from Tony Reinke that I found very helpful:

"The way I see it, the most delicate balance of the Christian life is in maintaining a Cross-centered perspective and pursuing personal obedience. Push a little too hard on the one side, I fall into self-righteousness and legalism thinking God’s acceptance of me is rooted in personal obedience. This is spiritual suicide. Or I fall on the other side in thinking the Cross demotes personal obedience to the status of “minor importance.” This too is wrong." TR

Read the rest here:
http://spurgeon.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/cross-centered-life-obedience/

"Legalism is the lie that God will find more pleasure in me because my obedience is greater than others or that God looks at me with disgust because I am not living up to His expectations. It is the failure to remember that God’s pleasure in us comes outside of us (in the finished work of Christ). Legalism causes the heart to forget that God sings over us because of the work He has done, not because of what we have done (Zeph. 3:15-17)."

Read the rest here:
http://spurgeon.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/what-is-legalism-2/

Thanks brother Greenlee for setting up the blog this AM.

“There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.”
Richard Sibbes

MK