God’s Answer for Legalism Within the Church

 

I was feeling crushed by legalism within the church and I waited on God to ask Him about it.”

 

 

I saw myself being crushed by a big elephant – it was sitting on me.  I asked the Lord what His solution was.  Then the memory of the big Mack truck being overturned by the winds of Hurricane Andrew, that I had experienced while I was living in Miami, Florida, in the 1990’s, came back to me. I knew that the mighty wind of the Holy Spirit was going to push the elephant of legalism off of me. I then saw the elephant pushed off of me by the wind of the Holy Spirit; however, my bones were still crushed. I asked the Lord what His solution was to my crushed bones. The scripture about the Spirit who lives in me raised Jesus from the dead, came to me, but I did not know where it was in the Bible. I asked the Lord for a confirmation to all of this and I felt God tell me to open up the Bible.  I opened it up, and my first glance fell on Romans 8:11-

“But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”

 

Mary Clark Alvarez

 

September 2003