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. . . Jesus is not standing on the sidelines with a clipboard grading us on our failures. We default in that direction, but Jesus doesn’t. He gave fair and blunt warning to the teachers of the law that continuing down that path does not get you to Heaven. It’s the old highway to hell in self-righteous clothing.

Jesus insists that we NOT try to do this apart from Him, because being with Him is the essence of the whole thing. . .