And what we find at our heart over and over is an addiction to self and sin. Why would we want to follow the law even MORE expansively when we live in what's commonly believed to be an age of grace? Well, expansive obedience is what Jesus Christ taught going beyond rote service to the very heart. There's much confusion about the law in the Church and so many women who claim to be "living free" while living as slaves to their passions and despising the law that their Savior loved so much. Ten Words unpacks the Ten Commandments and shows how we can go beyond minimal obedience (or more popularly, no obedience) to EXPANSIVE obedience of the law. Our generation so badly need the Jen Wilkins who point us back to Scripture and away from mantras and catchphrases. I appreciate so much Jen's solid Bible teaching. I was highlighting this book from the second page.
Contrary to common belief, the Pharisees were not lovers of the law they were lovers of self." "We should love the law because we love Jesus, and because Jesus loved the law.
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