I'm reading "The Triumphant Church" right now and I started to think the 2nd and 3rd chapters were legalism, so I asked my Pastor to explain what KH meant on a few phrases.
I was trained in grace before I became wof, so the phraseology KH uses in "The Triumphant Church" was grating against my grace lifestyle.
I do everything by the grace of YHWH:
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[Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight." - Philippians 2:13
Asking YHWH to change me inside and out, cause me to obey scripture, cause me to do what HE wants, etc, works really well for me.
This "I take authority over myself" stuff has never worked for me.
But KH, KC, CC, and my Pastor walk in a level of authority where they can say things like "I take authority over my flesh".
What I'm learning from my Pastor now is how to walk in the kind of authority KH describes in his book.
It's not the legalism it sounds like.
IT's SONS of GOD authority phraseology.
IT's walking as the Lord Jesus Christ walked.
I'm still learning and practising right now, but
I'd ask you to consider how just as grace phraseology sounds like a license to sin to the untrained person, so does SONS of GOD AUTHORITY phraseology sound like legalism.
I'll post more as soon as I get a better grasp, and more experience, of what my Pastor is teaching me.
To tell the truth, every disagreement I've ever had with wof teaching has disappeared when I was taught what the founding teacher really meant.
As Capps says, "People disagree with what they THINK I said, because they misunderstand WHAT I said".