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The Detour of Legalism
Do you feel constantly troubled by your sin—driven to create new “lines in the sand” just to feel good enough? In today’s episode of the MY Devotional Podcast, Dr. Michael Youssef warns that when we try to earn God’s acceptance, we trade Gospel freedom for spiritual exhaustion—shackling ourselves with legalism and elevating our own rules to the level of God’s commands.
Jesus confronted this very mindset in the Pharisees, who were meticulous about external religious behavior while neglecting the weightier matters God desires—mercy, faithfulness, and justice (Matthew 23:23). Their outward…
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