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Living By Rules, vs.
Living in Relationship
NOTE: Understanding the following
about rules vs. relationship
is very important to how you will approach
the subject of your own death.
Truly see the difference between living by RULES, and living in
RELATIONSHIP with God. We live in a world of RULES — which
I surely know being a lawyer. This is true both in secular society
as well as in the church of Jesus Christ!
Living by rules makes having a good, divine attitude about death
hard. Too many minds are constantly flooded with RULES (or with
laws, standards, codes of ethics, or other such things).
The problem is that when our minds are consumed with these
types of things, then we can’t think RELATIONALLY, as God wants
us to think.
Rules will always evict thoughts of relationship simply because we
can’t possibly abide by all the rules that we are influenced by.
Acts 15:10 says everyone who tried to live by the Old Testament
law failed.
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