What does legalism always instruct you to do?
It always specifies what you must do to merit favor with God. Legalism lays out demands and works, insisting that you have to work for it, while millions shun God's grace. The contrast is grace versus law, and its instruction is self-effort to earn favor.
Les explains that legalism, in whatever shape or form, always instructs you as to what you have to do in order to merit favor with God. He contrasts the law that was done away with grace that remains: same God, but two totally different economies. The law says, 'Thou shalt not, Thou shalt,' while grace says, 'Stand in the liberty wherewith Christ hath saved us.' Millions shun the Gospel of God's grace and say, 'I have to work for it,' but Les calls that the devil's lie. When Christ died and rose from the dead, God was totally satisfied that that was all we needed, and we can trust it completely.