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Now Let’s Look At

Two Pictures of Death

This First One Is a Picture of Death

Experienced by Someone Living
A NON-Gospel Life of Rules and laws

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The gospel is so often stolen from people because they listen to
so many other voices (like the 10,000 Instructors Paul speaks of).

When preachers, pastors and Bible commentators don’t know the

gospel, they can’t share the gospel.

Thus, most people, even in church, don’t know the gospel, and so
they experience death in this first way I’ll be describing. This first

way is not all bad, but it certainly isn’t powerful.

Paul says many preachers and pastors, ‘Desire to be teachers of

the law – and they do not understand what they are saying,
even though they sound very confident in what they say and

affirm’ (I Tim 1:7, from various translations).

He makes a similar statement in Galatians 4:17: “(Many pastors)

zealously try to attract us, but it’s not for our good. They want to
exclude us (making us feel guilty by preaching the law of

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