{"id":9904,"date":"2021-08-08T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T16:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=9904"},"modified":"2021-08-08T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T16:30:39","slug":"thedeadlylureoflegalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2021\/08\/thedeadlylureoflegalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deadly Lure of Legalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>2021 THEME: Life on the Edge<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Series: The Servant King<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>TITLE: The Deadly Lure of Legalism<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Scripture:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Mark 7: 1-23<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two ways to look at the Bible:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Progressive Christianity- (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>liberalism<\/strong><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Legalism- (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>very closed approach<\/strong><\/span>)<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>\u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A LEGALIST (1-13) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">#1- A legalist honors God with their (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>lips<\/strong><\/span>), resulting in (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>false worship<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">#2- A legalist makes the Word of God (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>vid<\/strong><\/span>), resulting in (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>disobedience<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>II.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THE CONFUSION OF A LEGALIST \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Every one of us has the (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>root of sin<\/strong><\/span>) inside us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">To the Pharisee, to the legalist, (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>outward is everything<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Corruption is not (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>external<\/strong><\/span>), but (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>internal<\/strong><\/span>). Impurity is not a matter of the stomach but of the (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>heart<\/strong><\/span>).\u00a0 Defilement is not what goes in but what comes out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The basic problem with humanity is not (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>what we do<\/strong><\/span>) but (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>who we are<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The point is clear: it is always (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>about the heart<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Next Week: Series: The Servant King<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Title: Sometimes We Get It\/Sometimes We Don\u2019t- Mark 8:1-21, 27-30<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 THEME: Life on the Edge Series: The Servant King TITLE: The Deadly Lure of Legalism Scripture:\u00a0\u00a0 Mark 7: 1-23 &nbsp; Two ways to look at the Bible: 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Progressive Christianity- (liberalism) 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Legalism- (very closed approach) \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A LEGALIST (1-13) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #1- A legalist honors God with their (lips), resulting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2021\/08\/thedeadlylureoflegalism\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon-notes","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9905,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9904\/revisions\/9905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}