Welcome friends to the line of fire. Michael Brown, delighted to start this week together with you as we are here once again to infuse you with faith and truth and courage to help you stand strong on the front lines.

As we talk all this month about a subject you don't hear much about, but it is found throughout the word, almost every book of the Bible

talks about it, the beauty of holiness. God's call to us to live holy lives, which are

beautiful lives, blessed lives. We're going to talk today in the next few days about the perils of

legalism. Oh yeah, call a friend, tell them to tune in. If you're not

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more about what we're doing and how that can serve you. So early on in this series, which we've

been going through the whole month, when we talked about holiness, we said one of the reasons

that people react negatively to holiness is that we love the flesh, we love to sin.

You know, it's just like if you're an unhealthy eater, you don't want the doctor to tell you

you have to change your diet.

The same way, if we're addicted to sin and love our sin, we don't want someone preaching

against that sin.

But there's another reason that people react negatively to preaching on holiness.

And it's because they associate it with legalism.

They associate it with some angry preacher, probably a hypocrite himself,

hitting them over the head with the Bible and condemning them because they don't conform to some outward norm.

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