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Sep 4, 2023
Jack Hyles: Vice of Self-Righteousness
As we know, the late Jack Hyles was characterised by the vice of legalism, which is really the vice of self-righteousness. We know that self-righteousness is a vice, because it is righteous done out of selfishness. A podcast like this shows that legalism is not the virtue of justice, but the vice of self-righteousness. This vice of self-righteousness was manifest through the abuse demonstrated by Jack Hyles and his ministers at the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana and Hyles-Anderson College. Of course, Romans 01 (Romans 1), particularly Romans 01:28-32 (Romans 1:28-32), shows that transgressors are worthy of death. One of the transgressions listed are slander (called backbiting), which the self-righteous like the late Jack Hyles are known for. Because of mankind's transgression, all of mankind, including the self-righteous and the depraved, are worthy of death. However, according to Romans 05 (Romans 5), especially Romans 5:8 (Romans 05:08), Adonai commends His Own Love towards transgressors by having Cristo die for them, the transgressors, by shedding His Blood at Golgotha.