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A Life Lived In Rules

We spent time earlier looking at the difference between a rule-

focused life vs. a relational life. Satan wants you to live in rules,

so that you die an agonizing death in a complicated system of

religious rules that keep your heart from connecting with God!

God reformed the life of rules by the cross of Jesus Christ (Heb

10:9 and 9:9-10). God replaced a law-based life with a

gospel-based life.

But Satan will do everything in his power to keep us rule-focused,

as we just saw in the quote at the bottom of page 54.

We can’t be RULE-focused and GOD-focused at the same time.

Hence, a life of living by rules is ‘playing in Satan’s sandbox,’

instead of walking the endless shorelines of God’s gospel of

grace, and gospel of peace with him (Acts 20:24, Rom 10:15).

If Satan keeps you rule-focused, he knows you are self-focused,
not God-focused. If you are self-focused, you look at the bad

things in your life, and are remorseful and repentant over them.

So you don’t have time to think about your relationship with God
much. This is because your thoughts are all on you: where you

have missed it… things you could have done differently… the

way things should have been.

This is a hell of a way to die!

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