"Guilty as charged!"

I believe that {EVERY} man's whole duty is to "...fear God and keep His commandments." 

If that makes me a "LEGALIST", I plead 'GUILTY AS CHARGED'!

However, consider the following evidence from the scriptures:

Num 14:41-44 - "And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
Go not up, for the LORD [is] not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites [are] there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp." 

Nehemiah 9:16 - But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments.

Nehemiah 9:26 - "Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies."

Nehemiah 9:29 - "And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not OBEY..."

Ezekiel 20:13, 21 - "But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules..."

Matthew 19:17 - Jesus said ... "If you would enter life, keep the commandments.”


Again, if believing, teaching, and practicing that ALL must submit to commandments from God, classifies me as a 'LEGALIST' in their eyes, I plead 'GUILTY AS CHARGED'.


Romans 10:17 - "Presumption cometh by hearing what God NEVER said."

Walk by faith; not by sight...

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