Pastor John,
I was thinking about how restraint of the flesh as a form of worship to God is unacceptable. Jesus’s work is a work of the heart, and only living in that heart that Jesus creates is acceptable.
If you want sin, living without it means nothing in this new covenant. There is a better offer on the table – a heart that doesn’t want sin.
Nothing but what Jesus does is acceptable to God, and that is a work of the heart.
Jerry
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Hi, Jerry.
All the religions of men are muzzles on the beastly nature of man. The law of Moses was the best muzzle for men because it was given to men by God, but still, it did not change man’s beastly nature.
Thank God for this covenant, this “new and living way” of life!
Pastor John