The Magna Carta of Christian Freedom — David Legge

Well, good evening to you all again. It's good to be back with you in Arran Hall and Enjoying fellowship with you once more and they're looking forward to tonight in the next two weeks with you and the Bible class.

Galatians 3–4 and Life in the Spirit

Want you to turn with me again to the book of Galatians. We've taken the title life in the spirit. But very much want to root it and grind it in this Epistle of Paul's and whilst we've only got four weeks We're trying to do our best and doing justice to this great epistle six chapters in total and we want to look tonight at chapter 3 and 4 and God willing for the next two weeks.

We'll look at chapter 5 and 6. So we're going to take a bit more time on those. But we begin reading at verse 1, please of Galatians 3. Oh foolish Galatians who has bewitched you. That you should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified among you.

This only would I learn of you. Received ye the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith. Are you so foolish having begun in the spirit? Are you now made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain if it be yet in vain?

He therefore that ministers to you the spirit and works miracles among you. Doeth he it by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? Even as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

Know ye therefore that they which are of faith the same are the children of Abraham and The scripture for saying that God would justify the heathen through faith. Preached before the gospel unto Abraham saying in these shall all nations be blessed.

So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse for it is written. Cursed is everyone that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God. It is evident for the just shall live by faith and the law is not of faith. But the man that does them shall live in them. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law.

Being made a curse for us for it is written cursed is everyone that hangs on the tree. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through fear.

Brethren I speak after the manner of men there would be but a man's covenant. Yet if it be confirmed no man does annuls or adds thereto. Now to Abraham and his seed where the promises made He said not unto seeds as of many but as of one unto thy seed which is Christ.

This I say that the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ the law which was 430 years after cannot disannul that it should make the promise of none effect. Where if the inheritance be of the law it is no more a promise.

But God gave it to Abraham by promise wherefore then serves the law it was added because of transgressions. Till the seed should come to whom the promise was made. And it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator now a mediator is not a mediator of one.

But God is one. Is the law then against the promises of God God forbid. For if there had been a law given which could have given life. Verily righteousness should have been by the law. But the scripture has concluded all understand that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

But before faith came we were kept under the law shut up unto the faith. Which would afterwards be revealed wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith.

But after that faith has come we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus for as many of you As have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

There is neither Jew nor Greek. There is neither bond or free there is neither male nor female. For you're all one in Christ Jesus. And if you be Christ's then you're Abraham's seed and there's according to the promise now I say that the error as long as he is a child differs nothing from a servant though.

He be Lord of all. But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we when we were children were in bondage onto the elements of the world. But when the fullness of the time was come God sent forth his son made of a woman made under the law to redeem them that were under law that we might receive the adoption of sons and Because you are sons God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying Abba father.

Wherefore you're no more a servant but a son. And if a son then an heir of God through Christ I be it then when you knew not God you did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now after that you have known God or rather are known of God.

I turn you again to the weakened beggarly elements weren't who you desire again to be in bondage. You observe days and months and times and years. I am afraid of you lest I have bestowed upon you labor and being Brethren.

I beseech you be as I am. For I am as you are. You have not injured me at all. You know how through infirmity of the flesh I preach the gospel unto you at first and my temptation or my testing my trial which was in my flesh.

You despise not nor rejected but received me as an angel of God even as Christ Jesus. Where is then the blessedness you spoke of? For I bear you record that if it had been possible you would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me.

Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth. They zealously affect you but not well. Yeah, they would exclude you that you might affect them. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing.

And not only when I am present with you my little children of whom I travel and birth again until Christ be formed in you. I desire to be present with you now and to change my voice for I Stand in doubt of you.

Legalism and the Judaizers' False Gospel

Tell me you that desire to be under the law. Do you not hear the law for it is written that Abraham had two sons? The one by a bondmaid and the other by a free woman. But he who was of the bond woman was born after the flesh.

But he of the free woman was by promise which things are an allegory. For these are the two covenants the one from the Mount Sinai which gender to bondage Which is a gaur or Hagar for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and answers to Jerusalem Which now is and is in bondage with her children, but Jerusalem which is above is free Which is the mother of us all for it is written rejoice Thy barren that bear us not break forth and cry thou that travel is not.

For the desolate hath many more children than she which hath a husband now. We brethren as Isaac was are the children of promise. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit even so it is now nevertheless.

What saith the scriptures cast out the bond woman and her son? The son of the bond woman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman. So then brethren, we are not the children of bond the bond woman, but of the free.

Now if you were not here last week I would encourage you to get the recording perhaps to fill in the gaps, but we spoke about the Judaizers who had infiltrated the churches plural most likely of Galatia and they convinced many in the church that the gospel did not set aside Jewish ceremonies and therefore Gentile Christians must be circumcised and Practice many of the rites and rituals of Judaism if they were to come into the promise that had been given to Abraham the patriarch so in other words what they were teaching was another gospel and that gospel was Christ and Christ and circumcision Christ and Jewish ceremony and ritual it was Christ and human legalistic Requirements and so really what they were saying was what Christ had begun Moses must complete Christ's work was not enough and the works of Moses that is the law had to be added to the work of Christ and Just to remind you chapter 2 and verse 4 Paul says this matter arose because some false brothers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom that we had in Christ and to make us slaves and So they were heaping upon these Galatian Christians more rules and laws than Paul had stipulated when he preached the gospel of free grace Received by faith in Christ alone and Paul was a great pains in chapter 1 especially to implore upon them that this teaching Undermined the very essence of the gospel of grace and what he did we saw last week though.

We didn't look at in great detail in chapters 1 and chapter 2 Paul speaks personally of how he himself had the Damascus Road experience and he was an arch legalist the Pharisee himself and yet how Christ and his grace came to him and delivered him of all that.

And he points out in chapter 1 and chapter 2 how our standing is by grace through faith plus nothing by grace Through faith in Christ plus nothing and he says very explicitly That our faith is rooted and grounded in the work of the cross plus Nothing look at verse at 21 of chapter 2 again I do not restrain the grace of God for if righteousness comes by the law Then Christ is dead and be and what a verse to share with someone who has the problem of self-righteousness.

Or is particularly religious and thinks they're good enough to earn heaven. If we could earn heaven by whatever rule or law, even if it's the laws of God. Plainly Christ died in vain and God wasted the precious blood of his own son because a penal Substitutionary sacrifice was not necessary if we could achieve Salvation ourselves and so the central issue for Paul in chapter 1 and chapter 2 we saw was the basis of our acceptance with God by grace through faith in Christ plus nothing.

Sanctification by the Spirit Rather Than Human Performance

But we also learned last week that not only did this affect the gospel that the Galatians preached but this very clear message also affected the level at which they tried and the imperative word is tried to live their Christian lives because not only had they started to preach a message of salvation at a Performance based level what you can do to add to the work of Christ.

But they were also imbibing a message of sanctification at a performance based level. They were living by law and we apply this by saying that many people would agree with Paul. Particularly in evangelicalism that salvation cannot be achieved by performance.

But where the mental and spiritual block comes for them is that they have embraced a message that tells us that sanctification can be achieved at the level of performance and Paul comes to them with the same message and we must remember the Galatians were born again.

These were Christians that Paul was writing to and he says the same is the case regarding your sanctification equally. The message you have believed is not Christ and for your sanctification. It's not Christ plus law.

It's not Christ plus your own performance. It's not Christ plus legalistic Requirements and he says this very graphically in verses 1 through 2 3. Oh Chapter 3 will foolish Galatians who has bewitched you.

It's as if someone has cast a spell on you that you should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth Crucified and among you this only would I learn of you. Did you receive the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith?

Are you so foolish having begun in the spirit? Are you now made perfect by the flesh? So Paul's message is very clear. The message of the gospel the brain salvation is Christ and It's a gift a free gift by grace and we receive it from God by the hand of faith.

And there's nothing else involved. No works or no merits of our own but Sanctification Paul is at pains to get across is exactly the same. It is by grace through fear. Not of works of the law and I challenge you last week and I challenge you again tonight.

How are you living your Christian life? Are you trying to do what God has commanded trying being again the operative word? Are you trying? Are you perhaps trying to do what others expect of you or the standard that they have?

Ordained for you or are you living what it is clearly New Testament Christianity, which is a personal faith based relationship with God the Father through abiding in his son by faith Jesus Christ and walking in loving obedience to the Word of God through the person in the power of the Holy Spirit and I said that while some may think this is splitting hairs Paul didn't think so.

This was such a serious issue that Paul actually accused these Judaizers of preaching a different gospel. Whether of salvation or sanctification and it was the difference between doing and being. Now look with me again at verse 20.

We didn't really spend much time on this, but Paul said verse 20. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live yet not I but Christ lives in me and the light which I now live in the flesh. I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

That is how you live the Christian life. I Thank God through the recommendation of some Christians in my youth. I read a little book by Roy Hessian called the Calvary Road and there's one statement in that little book.

It really sums up the whole issue of sanctification for me and all that the New Testament Teaches on it and indeed what verse 20 of chapter 2 is saying. Roy Hessian says this the only life that pleases God is the life of his son.

You think about that? The only life that pleases God is the life of his son. And that is why our flesh Who we are in self must die now. It has died if we are saved because we are crucified with Christ past Eris tense.

It's a done deal. It has already happened. But yet we can still breathe life into the flesh and try and live the Christian life through the flesh. Try and do good deeds by the flesh and we are focusing on doing rather than being allowing Christ to be in and through us and What Paul is saying in Galatians and what the Holy Spirit says throughout the whole New Testament is that the Christian life can never be achieved.

By law, it can only be lived through the Spirit the crucified life. The crucified life is the starting point of all Sanctification and if it is not your sanctification might well be of the flesh. Now we also saw last week That if we think that we must perform to gain acceptance with God equally.

We will require others to perform to gain acceptance with us. Now I'm not going to spend time on that tonight because we will deal with that next week in chapter 5 following where Paul deals with the practical aspects to this teaching of grace, but this week we want to look at chapter 3 and 4 where he he speaks of the doctrinal argument behind the exhortations that he brings in the book and We're going to see tonight why?

Faith as the Basis of Salvation and Sanctification

Galatians has been called by some the Magna Carta of spiritual freedom for the whole world and for all time. It is a document that proves that we have the right to be free in Jesus Christ. Now let us see how Paul argues this.

We start at chapter 3 in verses 1 to 9 and in these nine verses Paul shows us that salvation and Sanctification are a work of the Holy Spirit. To be received by faith. Not to be achieved by works. Now he argues this in three points.

First of all he speaks presently verse 5 of miracles that are among God's people in Galatia. He therefore that ministers to you the spirit and works miracles among you. Does he do it by the works of the law or by the hearing of fear and what a wonderful thing it would be to be.

In a fellowship where God was performing miracles and that was happening in Galatia in the early church. Paul was saying presently the work of God among you now. It is the spirit doing miracles through the works of the law or is he doing it through his own inherent power?

That was an obvious answer. The spirit is doing these miracles. But he moves on from the present to the previous the past and he says in verse 6 even as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness and Previously he argues to them that Abraham Believed.

Abraham exercised faith and it was credited as righteousness to Abraham. Abraham was not justified by acts works laws. But by faith. In other words Abraham depended upon faith for righteousness and God credited Righteousness to Abraham's account because of his act of faith alone.

So presently he argues that the works of the spirit among the Galatians are by the spirit not wrought by law. Previously he argues that Abraham believed and it was accredited to him as righteousness and then prophetically he argues in verse 7 to 9 that the children of Abraham are all who believe in God through Christ whether they be Jew or Gentile.

Read the verses again No you. Therefore that they which are of faith the same are the children of Abraham and the scripture for seeing that God would justify Heath and Gentiles through faith preached before the gospel unto Abraham saying in these shall all nations be blessed.

So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. Now, of course, you know that the physical descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob are the Jewish people but the spiritual descendants of Abraham Are not necessarily the Jewish people.

But people who believe in God through Jesus Christ people of faith. Whether they be Jew or Gentile, but those who are certainly not the descendants of Abraham Spiritually are those who live by works. I Want you to understand what this did to?

The Judaizers mindset this shattered their false confidence in their physical ancestry. They thought because they were Jews. They were safe. They were children of Abraham, but they were only physical children of Abraham.

Unless they believed they would not be spiritual children of Abraham and you remember the Lord Jesus had this battle in his ministry. But before him his forerunner John the Baptist cited this great obstacle in the way of the Jews.

And he called them a generation of vipers a brood of vipers. And he said do not presume to say to yourselves We have Abraham as our father for I tell you God is able from these stones to raise up Children from Abraham.

Your physical ancestry doesn't mean anything unless you have faith alone in God. The Lord Jesus followed on of course and the religious Pharisees and scribes cast aspersions on the Lord Jesus parentage inferring that he was an illegitimate and They said we are not of Sexual immorality we are not a fornication.

And the Lord Jesus responded in John 8 and said you are of your father the devil. And your will is to do his lusts you will fulfill his desires. They prided themselves in having Abraham as their father.

But the Lord was speaking to them as legalistic men who were trying to live right in the flesh and said no. Your father's not Abraham. It's the devil. In John chapter 6 Some came to the Lord Jesus and with their Jewish legalistic mindset asked the question.

What must we do that we might be doing? The works of God. Jesus said this is the work of God that you believe in him whom God has sent Faith. And the Lord Jesus at the beginning of his ministry challenged this conception.

Greg Morris and one of his writings offers for warning signs of Traditionalism and Traditionalism is a fruit of legalism as we'll see perhaps next week. But the first sign of traditionalism, which is a fruit of legalism Greg Morris sites is this one.

We begin to worship our history. We lose our effectiveness when our memories are greater than our dream, let me repeat that we begin to worship our history and we lose our effectiveness when our memories are greater than our dreams.

And Paul had to come to the Jews and Say no the promise that was given to Abraham was not given to Abraham and his seeds. Look at it verse 16. It was given to Abraham and his seed singular and in verse 15 to 20 will not look at it in detail, but Paul uses in a human illustration.

And he says it's just like a man-made covenant that states the beneficiary of the inheritance in the covenant. Well Abraham received such a covenant from God a promise and it was signed. Made to Abraham and his seed his offspring.

Singular not plural. Now. Do you know what that means Paul tells us in verse 17? The seed that the promise was given to as well as Abraham was Christ. His seed was Christ. Therefore if you want to enter into the full spiritual blessings of the promises that was given to Abraham and his covenant.

You must be in Christ and you must claim it in Christ by faith not by the works in Moses. You see it verse 17. I Say that the covenant that was confirmed before God in Christ the law which was four hundred and thirty years after Cannot disallow that which should make the promise of none effect.

For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise, but God made it to Abraham by promise. So God gave the promise to Abraham before Moses was on the scene. And when Moses got the law it did not dust disallow the covenant with Abraham.

Which was entered into by faith in Christ who was the seed it was promised to. Therefore Paul moves on and in verse 10 to 14 of chapter 3 He argues on this basis that the righteous the just shall live by their faith and not by their works.

The Curse of Legalism

He says in verse 11 quite plainly. The just shall live by faith. No man is justified by the law in the sight of God. It is evident. Now. Here's the reason why the just can only live by faith and not law.

Let me give you a number of reasons. Well Paul gives us to them. Gives them to us here verse 10 the law the works of the law and living by them brings a curse first part of verse 10 for as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse.

I Don't know whether you've ever operated on the premise of legalism or ever been in a legalistic system, but there comes a curse with it a Curse essentially that robs us of our joy and we'll see this later on in chapter 4 in verse 15.

I like the translation that goes like this what has happened to all your joy and we saw last week I our joy will be sapped from us and Legalism brings shame and guilt in the arsenal of the legalists. They Use shame and guilt to get their way and to impose Laws.

Perhaps this is one of the greatest dangers of any legalistic gospel or any legalistic Sanctification it turns people away from the grace of God as it truly is and From the joyful freedom that Christ intends in his gospel.

We saw that in the Gospels When the Lord Jesus encountered the Pharisees and we saw last week that his strongest denunciations were against the Pharisees. In Matthew 23 in verse 13. He says but woe unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites.

For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces for you neither enter yourselves. Nor allow those who would enter to go in. That is the curse of legalism. It essentially dangles a spiritual carrot in front of people's faces and they cannot achieve it because the car keeps moving.

The standard is too high and this is what the Pharisees were doing and we'll see in more detail how they did it next week. But they were effectively shutting the door in the face of those who needed to enter the kingdom.

Christian legalists do the same. They block God's people from the way of freedom by making the Christian life a cumbersome journey of religious performance and the Lord Jesus Cited this against the Pharisees in Matthew 23 in verse 4.

He said they tie up heavy burdens hard to bear and Lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. And I think the inference is their little finger.

So they're prescribing rules and regulations that even they themselves know they can't live up to and They rob everything that is meant to be spiritual life of joy and satisfaction. Legalism brings a curse.

Law's Demand for Perfection

It is like the proverbial hamsters wheel and The hamster goes round and round and round and round and when he has a thought to get off he gets off and he's puffed. What does he do? He gets back on again and keeps going round and round and round and each time he gets off He's as empty as he's ever been.

Paul says the righteous must live by their faith because living by the works of the law brings a curse. But here's a second reason why we must live by faith and not law. Law demands perfection. Verse 10 the second half shows why this is the case for it is written Cursed is everyone that continues not in all things all.

Things which are written in the book of the law to do them and verse 12 as well. And the law is not of faith. But the man that does them shall live in them. The implication is that he needs to live by all these laws in Perfection if it's going to be a success.

Now if traditionalism is a fruit of legalism equally Perfectionism is a fruit of legalism. Someone has said and I think it's right. Jesus was perfect. But he was never a perfectionist. What does that mean?

Well, you might be retorting in your mind. Well did the Lord Jesus not say you therefore must be perfect as your heavenly father is perfect. Yes, he did. But if you think of that statement as the Lord inviting broken sinners to pull their socks up and step up to the mark and Live like God when they can't.

You've got it completely wrong when the Lord Jesus said you must be perfect as your heavenly father is perfect. And When he said that your righteousness must exceed the righteous acts of the Pharisees He was showing that that such a standard is unattainable without the gospel of death to ourselves.

Through crucifixion with Christ and life in the spirit. The life of Christ living through us the only life that can and will please God. Now if you're living under law It is likely that you will be a perfectionist or it's likely that those who are enforcing law upon you will be perfectionist.

Richard Walters Described perfectionist like this. He said people who must think and act without a flaw. Punishing themselves when they don't meet this unattainable goal. There are people who leave behind a material of frustration.

They remember the past with regret. Don't enjoy the present as much as they might and Usually dread the future. It's very likely that their perfectionism makes those around them miserable as well. Paul says the righteous must live by faith.

Why the Law Cannot Justify

Because living by law brings a curse it demands Perfectionism which is not possible. And thirdly and perhaps most pertinently it doesn't justify. The reason why it doesn't justify is if I can take you out of relations for a moment and Romans chapter 8 the reason why the law does not justify is because it is weak through the flesh.

Turn with me to Romans 8, please. Romans 8 verse 1 Paul again says there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. Note who walk not after the flesh and his implication is that walking by law?

Whether it's the laws of Moses or your own little Mount Sinai that you've come down with your list of rules and regulations. There's no condemnation. For people who don't live by such laws, but who walk after the Spirit.

For the law of the Spirit of life. No death or curse there in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death and I don't have time to prove this to you. But you will find That the law of sin and death here Paul is not speaking about a law that works in our members.

That he has spoken of in previous chapters. He is actually referring here to the holy law of God as the law of sin and death. That's strong language and Here's the reason why he calls it the law of sin and death verse 3 for what the law could not do in that.

It was weak through the flesh God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh. The reason why the law cannot Justify us to save us and cannot justify us to sanctify us is Because it's weak in the flesh.

In other words It tells us what to do and what not to do, but it doesn't give us the power to do it. It only shows us that we can't do it and it shows us that we've fallen short of the mark. You might say well, why is that?

Well here Paul tells us in Galatians if you go back to chapter 3 the reason why is that the law was never intended to justify. God never give it for that intention at the beginning in chapter 3 in verse 21.

Is the law. Is the law then against the promises of God. God forbid for if there had been a law Given which could have given life Righteousness should have been by the law. But God never gave a law that could bring life.

He only gave a law that could bring death and that was why it was given to show us that we could never achieve the righteous Standards of God in the flesh and by our works and if you ever needed a reason why?

We should not live by law. It is this it Doesn't justify because it's weak through the flesh. It was never given for that intention in the first place. But ultimately this is the reason why Christ died to redeem us from the law.

Chapter 3 verse 13 and 14 Christ has redeemed us bought us back from the bondage and curse of the law. Being made a curse for us for it is written curse. It is everyone that hangs on a tree that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ.

That we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith and you can read verse 26 to 29 which state the same Paul has argued in verse 1 to 9. That salvation and sanctification are a work of the Spirit received by faith not achieved by the works of the law.

Presently miracles were being performed in the Galatians midst and it was by the Spirit not by law. Previously Abraham had believed and it was a credit to him as righteousness not by works, but by faith.

Prophetically those who Believe the promise is to the seed that is Christ and those who are in him who believe. The righteous verse 10 to 14 shall live by their faith not works because works brings a curse works demands Perfection.

Works doesn't justify weak through the flesh. It was never intended for that reason and Christ has died to redeem us from the law. Now come to chapter 4. We need to understand a bit more the purpose that the law was given for.

The Law as a Tutor Before Sonship

In chapter 23 verse 24. There's that famous verse that tells us That the law was given to us as a schoolmaster or a tutor. To bring us to Christ. And he expands in chapter 4 in verse 1 to 3 By saying that the law is like a guardian that was getting us ready.

Managing us for our inheritance. It was wanting to show us that we were not up to the mark. The purpose was to show us how in bondage to sin we were and in verse 8 following He spells it out even more chapter 4.

He says how be it then when you knew not God you did service unto them which by nature are not God's. But now after that you have known God in other words known as grace by faith and are known of God.

How I turn you again to the weak and burglarly elements on we're into you desire again to be in bondage. In other words the law has done its job. Galatians its job was to inflame Sin in you that's what the law does.

Do you realize that? It inflames sin in you. It brings sin to the surface to show you what it is. That's why if you live by laws You will be constantly frustrated and you will be miserable because all you will see is your inherent sinfulness.

That's why Paul says why on earth do you want to return to that? To return to the laws to return to the weak and worthless Elementary principles of the world to return to the law Paul says is to become slaves again to sin.

When what you should be our sons and daughters of God and he states how they were enslaved in verse 10 of Chapter 4 he says you observe days holy days and holy months and times and years. You're enslaved to a whole load of religious rules and regulations.

And what is the effect of all this verse 15 a wonderful verse better translated? What has happened to all your joy? It's very sad when you read verse 15 and 16. Because Paul says that when he was with them.

This might infer that he had bad eyesight. I don't know but he said they were such a loving and a gracious People that they would have plucked out their own eyes and have given them to Paul. But now all of a sudden he has become their enemy.

Because he is telling them the truth. Let me tell you something. That's what legalism will do to you. It'll rob you of your joy, and it'll take away your love. Here's a lesson if ever you need to learn one.