The Laodicean Message - E.H. “Jack” Sequeira

is wrong.
By the way, you notice the use of the word “I”
as the Pharisee prayed, talking about himself? “I
fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I
possess.” What does tithe paying really represent?
It is a confession that all that I possess doesn’t
belong to me, but to God. But “This is mine, look
God, I’m helping your church, your church cannot
do without me, so I surely deserve some credit.”
Okay, now turn in contrast to two other texts,
Philippians 3. I want to show you how Paul throws
away works of the law, which he was famous for as
a Pharisee, in exchange for Christ. I want you to
notice the attitude of works of faith. Philippians
3:3, what does it say there, it says that “Our
confidence is in Christ Jesus and not us.” Here is
the text:
For it is we who are the circumcision, we who
worship by the Spirit of God [not in the letter, but
in the Spirit, from the heart], who glory in Christ
Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh....
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