There is no greater battle in our lives. For as the Canons declare, For grace is conferred through admonitions, I am grateful for God s grace that shows me my self righteousness. I am grateful for the opportunity to repent of my sins and receive His forgiveness. But you see it is essential to understand how false religion tolerates sin. It pats sin on the back and encourages it to try harder to be good as if there is some form of apparent goodness outside of the goodness of Christ all in the name of Christ.
False faith drums up many ways to justify sin.
It is the sinful religious pride Jesus describes and rebukes in his parables to the Pharisees. It is no different today. Reformed and Evangelical Pharisees today need to here the gospel. They have to be lovingly told that they are mystifying the gospel and thus making it a work. They need to be told the truth of Scripture of the simple teaching that salvation and the life thereof, is not offered, rather it is given as a gift.