a legalist?

I got an message accusing me of being a legalist because I SUBMIT to GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT WHO LIVES GOD’S LAW IN and THROUGH me.

We all know that GOD’S WORD/LAW/TRUTH, in HIS Book of LIFE (Genesis to Revelation), is not evil  and we, HIS BODY, should SUBMIT to HIS HOLY SPIRIT WHO LIVES GOD’S WORD/LAW/TRUTH, which HE PLACED in us to FULFILL/COMPLETE HIS New COVENANT.

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HIS LAW is not a “you have to” LAW.
HIS LAW is a “if you LOVE ME” LAW.

JN 14:15
If ye love me, keep my commandments.

HIS LAW is not a “do it or I’ll kill you” LAW.
HIS LAW IS a “LIVE IN MY LOVE” LAW.

JN 15:10
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love

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Now,
a legalist will tell you how to submit to it  and if you don’t submit to it,
the legalist’s way,  you’re doing it all wrong.
That is a legalist.

To SUBMIT to GOD’S WORD/LAW/TRUTH is LOVING GOD.
To expect others to SUBMIT to HIS WORD/LAW/TRUTH,
in the same manner that I do, is unfaithfulness towards my GOD.

It is not my place to tell another, in HIS BODY,
how to believe and what to follow.
If HOLY SPIRIT dwells in that one,
I must submit to HOLY SPIRIT’S WORK
in that one.

I do not tell and I do not know
how anyone should live their lives
except,
that one’s life should HONOR GOD.

If I do not understand your way of living for GOD,
as long as I know that you are for GOD,
I know that you are not against me.

If I, a foot in HIS BODY,
would try to tell a hand, in HIS BODY,
how to live,
I would be working against the HEAD, GOD HIMSELF.
Who am I?
Why would I, a foot, tell a hand how to be?

I would be trying to change GOD’S WORK
in and on that part of HIS BODY.
The HEAD, GOD, would not be pleased.

HE CREATED every part of HIS BODY
for HIS PURPOSE and HIS PURPOSE only.
It is not for me to go
and change that part to be like me.

We are…
“fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
In whom all the building fitly framed together
groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
In whom ye also are builded together
for an habitation of God through the Spirit.”

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A legalist wants everyone to be like him (the legalist).
This would justify this legalist’s way of living.

I don’t expect anyone to be like me.
I expect to BE WHO GOD CREATED me to BE
and I expect others to BE WHO GOD CREATED them to BE.
And we are to COME TOGETHER, in AGREEMENT,
with HIM and HIS CREATION of each other.

ONE BODY, not necessarily in agreement with each other,
but in AGREEMENT with HIM and HIS INTENDED ONENESS

of HIS CREATION; of HIS BODY.

As for me and my FAMILY,
we LIVE to LOVE and HONOR GOD and HIS WAY of LIFE
that HE WROTE for HIS PEOPLE in HIS Book of LIFE,
Genesis to Revelation.

LOVE, RICOEL
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