Legalism then, is the audacity of the energy of the flesh, the blasphemy of substituting Christian works and Christian service for the grace of God. Legalism is the arrogance of replacing grace with works and the pompous pretensions of the fulfillment of predestination with human ability. Legalism seeks to change others by imposing false standards on them. Satan has done a great job evangelizing the Christian church by promoting self-righteousness and legalism. The legalistic believer is irrational and never satisfied until everyone in his periphery is a marionette dancing to his own tune.
Legalism seeks to destroy privacy and insert tyranny.
Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. There is a divine code of ethics for the royal family to live in. Inasmuch as the royal family member lives in this code, God the Holy Spirit provides the power. It is the love and respect we show one another which reveals the representation of the honor code at work in us.