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free from what? Free from the law? Free from that old covenant legalism? I think one of the most

difficult balances to keep is to live a holy life and yet not be legalistic. You might want to

write that down. They live in a holy life without being legalistic because our relationship

with God is not about all the things we can't do. Matter of fact Christianity is not to do, it

doesn't begin with a do, it begins with a done. Jesus said it is done, it is finished, he fulfilled

the law. So we're free but don't use your freedom to indulge the flesh but rather serve one another

humbly in love. For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command, love your neighbor

as you do yourself. But if you bite and devour each other, talking about strife again, if you

bite and devour each other watch out are you will be destroyed by one another. Strife actually has

the power to kill a church, it has the power to kill a marriage, it has the power to kill relationships

between siblings, between friends. What I'm talking to you today about is a serious business,

keeping strife out of your life and staying in peace. Peace is powerful but strife kills and

destroys. And I'm going to harp on it, I want you to be afraid of strife. I mean I want you to be

so afraid of it that when it starts in your house you're like no, it's worth it to you to humble

yourself, it's worth it to you to do whatever you need to do in order to get rid of the strife

because it's a dangerous thing. So I say walk by the spirit and you won't gratify the flesh. Now,

let's talk a little bit about gossip and slander and judgmental opinions and criticism.

Anybody like to talk about that?

Proverbs 1628 says a perverse person stares up conflict and a gossip separates close friends.

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