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Carnal Emphasis vs Spiritual Emphasis 13
(done-done)

You know you are under carnal teaching when you are constantly focusing on what we need to do.  It is almost like you are given a pair of glasses with "do" written on one lens and "do" written on the other lens.  It can be action or it can be what we must think.  With the do-do glasses you read the Bible and try emphasize the things that might suggest that we are supposed to do something.  Every page, every chapter and every verse is a chore to apply it by finding and doing what we must do.  

Before you know it you are up to your hips in do-do.

Why is the emphasis on doing?  Why is it man-centered religion?  Because carnal teaching cannot stand for anything that God is doing.  They don't want to trust God, they hunger and thirst for it to be up to themselves.  They require activity, because they think that they will become like they act.  You might as well face it; it is unbelief.  They are running from God and will only trust God, when they have jumped through all the hoops that they think will make them acceptable to God.  When they fail, they shrink back, because their hope is not in Christ, but in themselves.

Spiritual teaching emphasizes what God has done, and where their hope really can be found.  Our glasses say "done" on the lenses, and we read what God has done in every passage.  We want you to know that He is your only chance, and that moral success and moral failure makes no change in who you really are.  When you think about how Christ has done everything for you, then you are full of hope, and trust.  We want you to run to God when you fail, for only He has the cure, not to wait until you shape up to run to Him.

Dispensationalist will tell you that the Old Testament depicts a God of wrath and judgement, but the New Testament depicts a new approach from God.  Well, I am telling you that when you have your "done-done" glasses on, you will see a new God in the OT.  You will see His compassion, His love, His mercy, who will deliver, who will free, who is constantly working to set straight those whom He shepherds.  

See also Carnal Emphasis vs Spiritual Emphasis 12 - (God's work?)
and Carnal Emphasis vs Spiritual Emphasis 11 - (focus factor)
and Carnal Emphasis vs Spiritual Emphasis 10 - (kingdom heavyweights)
and Carnal Emphasis vs Spiritual Emphasis 9 - (cruel conformity)
and Carnal Emphasis vs Spiritual Emphasis 8 - (law and grace)
and Carnal Emphasis vs Spiritual Emphasis 7 - (knowledge)
and Carnal Emphasis vs Spiritual Emphasis 6 - (delayed fulfillment) 
and Carnal Emphasis vs Spiritual Emphasis 5 - (sameness)
and Carnal Emphasis vs Spiritual Emphasis 4 - (equality)
and Carnal Emphasis vs Spiritual Emphasis 3 - (polishing the image)
and Carnal Emphasis vs Spiritual Emphasis 2 - (the quick fix)
and Carnal Emphasis vs Spiritual Emphasis 1 - (the unspectacular)

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