THE WAR BETWEEN
THE PROSECUTOR VS. THE PUBLIC DEFENDER
"People, we are ALL born living our lives according to the Tree of Death knowledge. When we come to Christ, we are saved, but without realizing it, continue right on with that Tree of Death thinking. That mindset is based on performance, and is therefore quite legalistic. We find what justifies us in our mind for how we perform, even by scripture, and feel we are doing right through that knowledge. The more this is present in us as our means of being righteous, the more we minimize our need for Christ. The more we minimize our need for Christ, the more legalistic we become. The more we minimize our need for Christ, the more we are worshipping falsely the idol of self. We might think that we need Him to get "saved", but that is where it ends and onto a mental code of contrived righteousness we go, as if we are now being saved by our works. " LGM