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You’re a Legalist!!
SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2011
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As children, we learned that we were not to call people by malicious names. But, sometimes we forget this childhood lesson when we are engaged in what we think is a defense of the gospel. How often have we referred to someone by some detested theological name so as to dismiss their person and their understanding of the truth. Often, all that has happened is that they have made a statement that offended us – cast us in an ill light – so we condemn them as some theological outcast so that we will not have to answer their challenge.

Among the many such names that are thrown like doctrinal bombs is the name “legalist.” There are real legalists and their doctrine is soul damning, and they must be exposed for what they are lest their teaching deceive people. However, before we can condemn someone as a legalist, we must be certain what a legalist is. A legalist is not simply one whose life is characterized by a weak conscience subject to many religious rules. Nor is he a legalist who is offended by the immoral conduct of others, even if he rebukes us for what he perceives to be our moral deficiencies. After all, he may be right.

No, a legalist is much worse than that: He is a legalist who believes that our works – whether moral, ceremonial or religious – somehow contribute to our favorable standing with God. A Jew who thought that all males should be circumcised was not a legalist: A Jew was a legalist only if he insisted that, apart from circumcision, a man could not be saved. A man is not a legalist simply because he believes that we must still observe a Sabbath day: He is a legalist only if He makes our standing with God dependant on our Sabbath-keeping. A man is not a legalist just because he thinks smoking is wrong, but he becomes a legalist if he thinks that non-smoking puts a man in a more favorable position with God. A man is not a legalist if he insists that all believers must be immersed in water according to the command of the Lord, but he becomes a legalist the moment he makes such a ceremony necessary to a man’s salvation.

And a man is not a legalist simply because he is burdened by the weak consciences of others and feels needlessly restricted by their rules, but he becomes a legalist the moment he makes their weak consciences a proof that they do not know God or understand His gospel.



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