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

do? Works of the law. “Works of the law” means
“flesh” trying to produce the righteousness of the
law which belongs to the heart. So the source of
works of the law is flesh. But the works
themselves resemble what? Works of faith or
righteousness.
Let me give you an illustration. Do “works of
faith” keep the Sabbath? Yes. Do “works of the
law” keep the Sabbath? Yes. Here is a Jew who is
keeping the Sabbath. The question is not, “Are you
keeping the Sabbath?” But, “Is that keeping of the
Sabbath works of the law or is it works of faith?
That is important. But that I will cover when we
do verse 17, when we see why works of the law
deceive us.
But the question is the works of the law is not
the same as the works of the flesh, because the
works of the flesh are sinful acts; the works of the
law are not sinful acts. They are righteous acts on
the surface, they look good, but they are very
deceiving, because outwardly they look good. So
please remember that “works of the law” is self-
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