From Living the Cross Centered Life, by C.J. Mahaney:
Suddenly, in the context of this promised rescue, Isaiah is describing someone totally unattractive and unimposing—not someone acclaimed, but someone “despised and rejected”; not someone who conquers, but someone who is “crushed.” (Isa 53:5) Reading this account for the first time, you would wonder: “Is this the guy who’s supposed to deliver us? Can this guy even remotely be ‘the arm of the LORD’ (Isa 51:9; 52:10; 53:1) Isaiah promised?”
No wonder Isaiah begins chapter 53 with these words: “Who has believed what they heard from us?” Who has believed? No one. And that includes us, for apart from divine revelation and the Spirit’s awakening, none of us would ever know genuine faith.
Human expectations of what a savior should be haven’t changed much down through the ages. Seven centuries after Isaiah’s prophecy, the apostle Paul would summarize people’s continuing misconceptions: “For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and folly to Gentiles.” (1 Cor 1:22-23) By divine design the gospel is foolishness to all who through pride are governed by the wisdom of this world, restricted to human observation and impressed only by outward appearance. (p 52)
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day 24
From Living the Cross Centered Life, by C.J. Mahaney:
Surprisingly, one of the best places in Scripture to reflect deeply on the meaning of Christ’s death is not in the New Testament, but in the Old—in a passage Spurgeon described as “the Bible in miniature and the gospel in essence.” He was speaking of the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah.
This chapter “takes us to the heart of the human problem and the heart of the divine mind,” according to Derek Tidball in The Message of the Cross; he calls it “one of the peaks of the Old Testament’s revelation of God. From this vantage point we obtain a clear view of His work on the far-off summit of Calvary and gain a definitive perspective on its meaning.”
Though Isaiah 53 was written some seven hundred years before Christ’s death, “it looks,” writes Franz Delitzsch, “as if it had been written beneath the cross upon Golgotha”
No other portion of sacred Scripture gives us such a profound and detailed account of Christ’s suffering on the cross—while revealing as well its glorious meaning. All of Scripture is blood-stained, but Christ’s death is particularly pronounced in this passage. From his unique and inspired vantage point, the prophet Isaiah brings us right to the cross…so we can behold the Savior hanging there, and begin to understand what it all means. (p 49)
Surprisingly, one of the best places in Scripture to reflect deeply on the meaning of Christ’s death is not in the New Testament, but in the Old—in a passage Spurgeon described as “the Bible in miniature and the gospel in essence.” He was speaking of the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah.
This chapter “takes us to the heart of the human problem and the heart of the divine mind,” according to Derek Tidball in The Message of the Cross; he calls it “one of the peaks of the Old Testament’s revelation of God. From this vantage point we obtain a clear view of His work on the far-off summit of Calvary and gain a definitive perspective on its meaning.”
Though Isaiah 53 was written some seven hundred years before Christ’s death, “it looks,” writes Franz Delitzsch, “as if it had been written beneath the cross upon Golgotha”
No other portion of sacred Scripture gives us such a profound and detailed account of Christ’s suffering on the cross—while revealing as well its glorious meaning. All of Scripture is blood-stained, but Christ’s death is particularly pronounced in this passage. From his unique and inspired vantage point, the prophet Isaiah brings us right to the cross…so we can behold the Savior hanging there, and begin to understand what it all means. (p 49)
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day 23
From Living the Cross Centered Life, by C.J. Mahaney:
What Does it All Mean?
Near the end of C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the children Lucy and Susan are on the Hill of the Stone Table on a moonlit night. From a distance they watch tearfully as Aslan the lion submits to the torment from the White Witch and her rabble of monsters—who are there because of the treachery of the girls’ brother Edmund. He is bound, shorn of his golden mane, muzzled… then tied to the table and killed.
After these vile creatures have gone, the two sisters creep out of their hiding place to approach the table. They spend the rest of that night weeping over Aslan’s body.
When dawn comes and the girls are shivering in the early morning coolness, they turn from the table to try and warm themselves by walking. As they watch the sky turn red and gold from the sunrise, they hear behind them “a great crackling, deafening noise.”
They hurry back, and are overcome with yet more grief at what they see:
A better question simply could not have been asked of Aslan—or, more importantly, of the Savior he so closely represents.
What is the meaning of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ? When The Passion of the Christ was released, a Time magazine cover asked, “Why did Jesus have to die?”—in other words, what does it all mean? No magazine cover ever asked a more significant or relevant question.
What Does it All Mean?
Near the end of C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the children Lucy and Susan are on the Hill of the Stone Table on a moonlit night. From a distance they watch tearfully as Aslan the lion submits to the torment from the White Witch and her rabble of monsters—who are there because of the treachery of the girls’ brother Edmund. He is bound, shorn of his golden mane, muzzled… then tied to the table and killed.
After these vile creatures have gone, the two sisters creep out of their hiding place to approach the table. They spend the rest of that night weeping over Aslan’s body.
When dawn comes and the girls are shivering in the early morning coolness, they turn from the table to try and warm themselves by walking. As they watch the sky turn red and gold from the sunrise, they hear behind them “a great crackling, deafening noise.”
They hurry back, and are overcome with yet more grief at what they see:
The Stone Table was broken into two pieces by a great crack that ran down it from end to end; and there was no Aslan.Suddenly their cries and questions are interrupted by “a great voice behind their backs.”
They looked round There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.Finally, after both girls have “flung themselves upon him and covered him with kisses,” Susan asks a pressing question: “But what does it all mean?”
Susan tries to ask him if he’s a ghost.
Aslan stooped his golden head and licked her forehead. The warmth of his breath and a rich sort of smell that seemed to hang about his har came all over her.
“Do I look it?” he said.
A better question simply could not have been asked of Aslan—or, more importantly, of the Savior he so closely represents.
What is the meaning of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ? When The Passion of the Christ was released, a Time magazine cover asked, “Why did Jesus have to die?”—in other words, what does it all mean? No magazine cover ever asked a more significant or relevant question.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day Twenty-two
From Living the Cross Centered Life, by C.J. Mahaney:
“Abide hard by the cross and search the mystery of His wounds.”—Charles Hadden Spurgeon
Behind Christ’s wounds are mysteries, mysteries that are revealed in Scripture. So we want to look carefully and study closely the purpose of our Savior’s sufferings, from His agonized prayer in the garden to His cry of forsakenness on the cross. We want to look with more depth and detail at why He suffered and what He uniquely accomplished by His suffering in relation to God and for the sinner. (p 47)
“Abide hard by the cross and search the mystery of His wounds.”—Charles Hadden Spurgeon
Behind Christ’s wounds are mysteries, mysteries that are revealed in Scripture. So we want to look carefully and study closely the purpose of our Savior’s sufferings, from His agonized prayer in the garden to His cry of forsakenness on the cross. We want to look with more depth and detail at why He suffered and what He uniquely accomplished by His suffering in relation to God and for the sinner. (p 47)
Monday, June 22, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day Twenty-One
From Living the Cross Centered Life, by C.J. Mahaney:
Vast numbers of non-Christians watched The Passion of the Christ and witnessed its excruciatingly violent yet realistic images, and as a result, countless evangelistic opportunities opened up for our church and for Christians worldwide. For that, I’m profoundly grateful.
Images, however, cannot adequately convey the gospel’s content. The gospel message isn’t visual; it’s truth. It is truth to be believed, not simply a collection of images to be viewed. Scripture is clear: “Faith comes from hearing, and hearing though the word of Christ. (Rom 10:17)” It’s only the preaching of the gospel, not the depiction of it, that God promises to accompany with saving effect.
Paul reminded the Galatians, “It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publically portrayed as crucified.(Gal 3:1)” These Galatians weren’t present, of course, for the actual crucifixion of Christ; but it had been vividly and effectively portrayed to them through Paul’s preaching of the gospel.
Although The Passion of the Christ brought millions to an unprecedented awareness of how Jesus died, it couldn’t adequately convey why He died, and so the pronounced burden I felt was this: How could we as Christians explain to these moviegoers the true reasons behind Gethsemane and Calvary, as Paul did to the Galatians? Otherwise I feared that without clarifying theological explanation, the movie’s impact for most people would be only superficial, vague, and fleeting.
But do we ourselves adequately understand the deepest reasons behind the cross? If not, how can we take hold of those reasons—not only to be more compelled in sharing the good news of God’s grace with others, but also to more fully and personally experience the gospel’s “unsearchable riches” (Eph 3:8)”
Vast numbers of non-Christians watched The Passion of the Christ and witnessed its excruciatingly violent yet realistic images, and as a result, countless evangelistic opportunities opened up for our church and for Christians worldwide. For that, I’m profoundly grateful.
Images, however, cannot adequately convey the gospel’s content. The gospel message isn’t visual; it’s truth. It is truth to be believed, not simply a collection of images to be viewed. Scripture is clear: “Faith comes from hearing, and hearing though the word of Christ. (Rom 10:17)” It’s only the preaching of the gospel, not the depiction of it, that God promises to accompany with saving effect.
Paul reminded the Galatians, “It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publically portrayed as crucified.(Gal 3:1)” These Galatians weren’t present, of course, for the actual crucifixion of Christ; but it had been vividly and effectively portrayed to them through Paul’s preaching of the gospel.
Although The Passion of the Christ brought millions to an unprecedented awareness of how Jesus died, it couldn’t adequately convey why He died, and so the pronounced burden I felt was this: How could we as Christians explain to these moviegoers the true reasons behind Gethsemane and Calvary, as Paul did to the Galatians? Otherwise I feared that without clarifying theological explanation, the movie’s impact for most people would be only superficial, vague, and fleeting.
But do we ourselves adequately understand the deepest reasons behind the cross? If not, how can we take hold of those reasons—not only to be more compelled in sharing the good news of God’s grace with others, but also to more fully and personally experience the gospel’s “unsearchable riches” (Eph 3:8)”
Friday, June 5, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day Twenty
From Living the Cross Centered Life, by C.J. Mahaney:
One Sunday morning, Charles Spurgeon was the guest preacher at a church in a country town in eastern England. Seated behind him was his grandfather, who was also a preacher. Spurgeon was speaking that day on Ephesians 2:8—“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.”
As Spurgeon carefully explained this glories gospel of grace, now and again he would hear the encouraging voice of his grandfather behind him, saying gently, “Good! Good!” At one point, he even heard this gentle prod from the old man’s voice: “Tell them that again, Charles.”
And of course, Spurgeon did indeed “tell them that again.”
Most likely you’re no stranger to the gospel of grace and the basic truths of the cross of Christ.
This book, however, is an opportunity for us to follow the wise exhortation of Spurgeon’s granfather and to see and hear those wonderful realities again, more clearly than eve, so that God’s grace may astound us as never before” (p 42)
One Sunday morning, Charles Spurgeon was the guest preacher at a church in a country town in eastern England. Seated behind him was his grandfather, who was also a preacher. Spurgeon was speaking that day on Ephesians 2:8—“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.”
As Spurgeon carefully explained this glories gospel of grace, now and again he would hear the encouraging voice of his grandfather behind him, saying gently, “Good! Good!” At one point, he even heard this gentle prod from the old man’s voice: “Tell them that again, Charles.”
And of course, Spurgeon did indeed “tell them that again.”
Most likely you’re no stranger to the gospel of grace and the basic truths of the cross of Christ.
This book, however, is an opportunity for us to follow the wise exhortation of Spurgeon’s granfather and to see and hear those wonderful realities again, more clearly than eve, so that God’s grace may astound us as never before” (p 42)
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day Nineteen
From Living the Cross Centered Life, by C.J. Mahaney:
Let me ask you: Where do you consistently direct your faith? What does it rest on? Is it your emotional state…or the objective realities that the Word of God and the Spirit of God have revealed? When you read or hear biblical truth proclaimed, what internal conversation takes place in your soul? Is your first reaction, What do I feel about this?
If so, do you plan to continue submitting everything ultimately to your feelings? Or will you instead trust in God’s testimony, so that whenever you encounter biblical truth, your initial question will always be, Do I believe it? That’s the only reliable way to transform your emotions… and to take them into a realm of love and adoration for the Lord that you’ve never before experienced. (p 41)
Let me ask you: Where do you consistently direct your faith? What does it rest on? Is it your emotional state…or the objective realities that the Word of God and the Spirit of God have revealed? When you read or hear biblical truth proclaimed, what internal conversation takes place in your soul? Is your first reaction, What do I feel about this?
If so, do you plan to continue submitting everything ultimately to your feelings? Or will you instead trust in God’s testimony, so that whenever you encounter biblical truth, your initial question will always be, Do I believe it? That’s the only reliable way to transform your emotions… and to take them into a realm of love and adoration for the Lord that you’ve never before experienced. (p 41)
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day Eighteen
Outward Instead of Inward
Another way to highlight this difference between talking to ourselves and listening to ourselves is to think of an outward, objective focus versus an inward, subjective focus.
As Scottish theologian Sinclair Ferguson notes, “The evangelical orientation is inward and subjective. We are far better at looking inward than we are at looking outward. Instead, we need to expend our energies admiring, exploring, expositing, and extolling Jesus Christ.”
We can learn to focus outward (and upward!), regardless of how we feel, because the gospel and its events remain completely unaffected by whatever is agitating our emotions. The gospel is objective fact.
That which is subjective changes regularly, like shifting sand. But that which is objective is built on solid rock. When we look inward, we live by the subjective, the temporal, the everchanging, the unreliable, the likely-to-be-false. When we look outward, to the gospel, we live by the objective, the never-changing, that which is perfectly reliable and always completely true.
Your life in Christ is built on solid, objective truth. And of all the innumerable glorious truths of Scripture, the most critical is that Jesus died for our sins.
Another way to highlight this difference between talking to ourselves and listening to ourselves is to think of an outward, objective focus versus an inward, subjective focus.
As Scottish theologian Sinclair Ferguson notes, “The evangelical orientation is inward and subjective. We are far better at looking inward than we are at looking outward. Instead, we need to expend our energies admiring, exploring, expositing, and extolling Jesus Christ.”
We can learn to focus outward (and upward!), regardless of how we feel, because the gospel and its events remain completely unaffected by whatever is agitating our emotions. The gospel is objective fact.
That which is subjective changes regularly, like shifting sand. But that which is objective is built on solid rock. When we look inward, we live by the subjective, the temporal, the everchanging, the unreliable, the likely-to-be-false. When we look outward, to the gospel, we live by the objective, the never-changing, that which is perfectly reliable and always completely true.
Your life in Christ is built on solid, objective truth. And of all the innumerable glorious truths of Scripture, the most critical is that Jesus died for our sins.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day Seventeen
Mahaney tells a great story to illustrate how he listened to the voice of his feelings. Here is the audio of C.J. telling this story.
Click here to listen to the famous 'laptop story'.
Click here to listen to the famous 'laptop story'.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day Sixteen
Listening To Ourselves
To exalt and rely on our feelings is what Lloyd-Jones called listening to ourselves instead of talking to ourselves. “Have you realized,” he observed, “that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?”
I agree. Let me explain what Mr. Lloyd-Jones means by “listening to yourself.” If you’re anything like me, there’s a good chance you do it every day. You know the routine. Every morning the alarm clock erupts, demanding attention.
Make it stop … make it stop!You hit the snooze button.
A precious eight minutes of floating, timeless oblivion pass. Then the grating alarm starts again. You open your eyes and the “listening” begins.
Today is…Thursday. Oh, no, sales meeting this morning! Yet another chance to see more incompetence in the company.
You roll over. But there’s no more rest as you remember the weird noise the car started making yesterday… and the checkbook that needs balancing…and all the sarcasm expressed around the dinner table last night.
Life is just one big broken, whirring mess…
You slip out of bed. You know you should exercise, but your back is sore. Forget it.
As your bare feet hit the cold bathroom floor, the voice picks up its pace.
Can’t anyone in this family learn to put the toothpaste back?
There’s so much to do today, and you know you should pray.
But I haven’t got time.
You didn’t pray yesterday either.
No time.
You stare in the mirror.
Oh, I feel so drained …
The fleeting thought recurs that it might help to spend a few moments in prayer and reading the Scriptures.
But God feels so distant…
On a daily basis we’re faced with two simple choices. We can either listen to ourselves and our constantly changing feelings about our circumstances, or we can talk to ourselves about the unchanging truth of who God is and what He’s accomplished for us at the cross through His Son Jesus.
To exalt and rely on our feelings is what Lloyd-Jones called listening to ourselves instead of talking to ourselves. “Have you realized,” he observed, “that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?”
I agree. Let me explain what Mr. Lloyd-Jones means by “listening to yourself.” If you’re anything like me, there’s a good chance you do it every day. You know the routine. Every morning the alarm clock erupts, demanding attention.
Make it stop … make it stop!You hit the snooze button.
A precious eight minutes of floating, timeless oblivion pass. Then the grating alarm starts again. You open your eyes and the “listening” begins.
Today is…Thursday. Oh, no, sales meeting this morning! Yet another chance to see more incompetence in the company.
You roll over. But there’s no more rest as you remember the weird noise the car started making yesterday… and the checkbook that needs balancing…and all the sarcasm expressed around the dinner table last night.
Life is just one big broken, whirring mess…
You slip out of bed. You know you should exercise, but your back is sore. Forget it.
As your bare feet hit the cold bathroom floor, the voice picks up its pace.
Can’t anyone in this family learn to put the toothpaste back?
There’s so much to do today, and you know you should pray.
But I haven’t got time.
You didn’t pray yesterday either.
No time.
You stare in the mirror.
Oh, I feel so drained …
The fleeting thought recurs that it might help to spend a few moments in prayer and reading the Scriptures.
But God feels so distant…
On a daily basis we’re faced with two simple choices. We can either listen to ourselves and our constantly changing feelings about our circumstances, or we can talk to ourselves about the unchanging truth of who God is and what He’s accomplished for us at the cross through His Son Jesus.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day Fifteen
Who are these “humble” persons to whom God promises to extend grace (James 4:6; 1 Peter 5:5)?
The humble are those whose first response to objective truth from God’s Word is not to ask, “How do I feel?” but to say, “I’m not going to let my faith be determined and directed by the subjective and the experiential. Instead I confess openly before God that I will believe the objective truth of His Word, regardless of how I feel.”
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones once issued this warning: “Avoid the mistake of concentrating overmuch upon your feelings. Above all, avoid the terrible error of making them central.” Anyone making this mistake, he adds, is “doomed to be unhappy,” because of the failure to follow “the order that God himself has ordained.”
And what is that order? Lloyd-Jones reminds us that “what we have in the Bible is Truth; it is not an emotional stimulus … and it is as we apprehend and submit ourselves to the truth that the feelings follow.” When we focus first on truth, lo and behold, feelings follow! And they’ll be reliable feelings, because they’re anchored in truth. That’s the divine order.
Lloyd-Jones then proceeds to this profound application: “I must never ask myself in the first instance: What do I feel about this? The first question is, Do I believe it?” (p 35)
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day Fourteen
Some might find it surprising that I would teach a young boy about God’s wrath toward sin [C.J.’s son was twelve at the time]. But I find it surprising that any loving person would withhold this truth from another person they love. Because only when we understand God’s wrath toward sin can we realize that we need to be saved from it. Only when we hear the bad news that we’re deserving of judgment can we appreciate the good news that God, through His Son, has provided salvation and full, continuing forgiveness for our sins. Only those who are aware of God’s wrath are amazed at God’s grace.
This is what I hold out to my young son as the hope of his life: that Jesus, God’s perfect, righteous Son, died in his place for his sins. Jesus took all the punishment; Jesus received all the wrath as He hung on the cross, so people like Chad and his sinful daddy could be completely forgiven.
I hope to teach my son many other things as well, but the gospel is the one essential thing for him to know—as it is for us all. (p 29)
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day Thirteen
For Paul, the gospel—this “word of the cross”—was no cold theological formula. Paul lived a cross centered life because the cross had saved and transformed his own life. Paul never forgot what he once had been, or the mercy and grace God showed him. This remained at the forefront of his mind. As he wrote on another occasion to Timothy, “Though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent … I received mercy … and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. (1 Tim 1:13-14)” (p 26)
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day Twelve
The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough … Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die. –Martin Luther (p 23)
Monday, May 25, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day Eleven
The subject of the cross, Charles Spurgeon once said, “is worth of an angel’s tongue. And this also is true: It needs Christ himself completely to expound it.” In humble agreement with this prince of preachers on the infinite worth and wealth of this topic, I add as well the prayer it prompted from Spurgeon: that God would “by his own Spirit expound it to your heart.” (p 22)
Friday, May 22, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day Ten
A while back I received a thank-you email from a young woman who recalled her reaction when she first heard me identify the gospel as our church’s lasting passion and priority. She told me, “I remember sitting there thinking … ‘What does he mean? Yes, we’re saved because Jesus died for our sins. But don’t we then focus on other aspects of the Christian life?’”
Meanwhile, under our teaching she began recognizing:
that there was a problem deeper than my outward expressions of sin (harsh words, complaining, etc.) …
I was learning about the sin in my heart and the motives at the root … I vividly remember driving down the road one day, and God opening my eyes to see that I’m a wretched sinner to the very core of my being. In that second I thought, What am I to do?!
Instantly I was clearly aware that this is why Jesus Christ came and died on a cross—for me … I laughed out loud, and said, ‘My God, only You could show me what a wretched sinner I am and make it the greatest news I’ve ever heard!’ The truth of Jesus’ sacifice became more real to me than ever before.
More real than ever before. Can you say that as well? (p 19)
Luther once said he felt as if Jesus Christ died only yesterday. Is that how you feel? (page 20)
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day Nine
If you think for a moment that the truth of the cross is something you’ve already adequately understood—if you suspect your life is already cross centered—allow me to bring to your attention some symptoms that arise from not being cross centered. Do any of the following describe you?
- You often lack joy.
- You’re not consistently growing in spiritual maturity.
- Your love for God lacks passion.
- You’re always looking for some new technique, some “new truth” or new experience to pull all the pieces of your faith together. (p 17)
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day Eight
“We never move on from the cross, only into a more profound understanding of the cross.”—David Prior (p 17)
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day Seven
Let me urge you to do whatever it takes to make the gospel your passion. Ask God to change your heart so you can personally affirm for your own life the words of Galations 6:14—“Far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (p16)
Monday, May 18, 2009
Living the Cross Centered Life Quotes - Day Six
Every day we all face the temptation to move away from the gospel, to let it drop from our hands and hearts. Three main tendencies in particular tend to draw us away:
1. Subjectivism, which means basing our view of God on our changing feelings and emotions.
2. Legalism, which means basing our relationship with God on our own performance.
3. Condemnation, which means being more focused on our sin than on God’s grace. (p 16)
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