The Christian life is not about religion. Religion is about following a specific set of behaviors. It is more about what we do. It is about why we do what we do. When Christ is ruling over our wills, our mind-emotion-actions fall into order. When Christ is ruling over our wills, we act from the center of His presence in our souls. It seems to me that all the work of the Old Testament was given to reveal that although our minds and emotions wanted God’s rescue from our sins, we needed something greater than ourselves to set us free. The New Testament exposed the mystery that was known to God from the beginning, that we humans had been depleted of the will-power to follow God without His help. Ezekiel 36:26 explained it this way: “ I will give you a new heart and put a new spiri...
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