RE: [TruthTalk] The Law

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-----Original Message----- David Miller said: What is contrary to grace is when people put their confidence in their law keeping to make them right in God's eyes.  For example, if a man thinks that observing the seventh day makes him in right standing before God, that God looks upon him with greater pleasure because of this act of obedience, then he has fallen from the righteousness that comes through faith in Jesus Christ.     David, There are hundreds of scriptures which say otherwise. What do you mean??? Let’s no get mixed up on earning salvation vs the rewards of pleasing God in this life and the next.   II Sam 22: 21   The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 22   For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 23   For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. 24   I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity. 25   Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight. 26   With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright. 27   With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury. 28   And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.     Luke 6 23   Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven...     Izzy