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One Year Bible: Day 256 - Isaiah 33:1-35:10; Galatians 1:1-24; Psalm 107:10-22

Isaiah 35:8 speaks of “the Way of Holiness.” Isaiah 35:9 stresses that “only the redeemed will walk there.” This is also the teaching of Paul in Galatians. We must be redeemed by the Lord if we are to walk in the Way of Holiness. Any attempt yo walk in the Way of Holiness as a means of earning salvation is “ a different gospel - which is really no gospel at all”, a perversion of the Gospel of Christ (Galatians 1:6-7). Only God - and not ourselves - can break the chains of sin. “Let them give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing love and His wonderful deeds for men, for He breaks down gates of bronze and cuts through bars of iron” (Psalm 107:15-16).

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