Acts 13:39 KJV
And by him all that believe are justified from
all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
The Apostle makes a clear contrast between believing on Christ and
trusting the Law of Moses (spell that religion). The Jews had come to practice
the letter of the law of Moses without seeing the Saviour that law pointed to.
They had become satisfied in their religion. They had come to view their
practice as the redeeming thing.
Far too much of modern Christianity has taken on this Judaistic legalism.
Whether we refer to the liberal and modernist churches such as Catholicism and
mainline Protestantism, or more rigid denominations that coerce their spiritual
practices in their congregations the effect is the same; people are trusting a
practice and missing a Saviour.
I am not recommending a kind of Christianity without standards. Far from
it. I am certain that a faith relationship with Christ transforms a person's
life as well as his soul. But religion gets the cart before the horse and
leaves the would be passenger pulling both the cart and the horse.
Christianity is faith in Christ to redeem and to justify. Christianity
gives people a yoke that is easy and a burden that is light. Christianity gives
a man rest in his soul that changes the works of his flesh.
Christ does what religion can never do.
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