75 Bible Questions by North

Author:North
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Your Instructors Pray You Won't Ask, theology
Published: 2015-07-07T02:09:36.554000+00:00

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“A person cannot be under the law and not under the law at the same time. It’s one or the other. God contrasts grace and law here.

are under grace and not

under law. The law is a dead letter for us.”

It is not that the law is a dead letter to us.

Rather, we

We have

as covenant-breakers, so that we may

as covenant-keepers. The law no longer con-

demns us as regenerate men, who have the perfect

righteousness of Christ imputed to them. But

judicial decree of “not guilty”) is not the

same as our

as we run the

race, fight the good fight, and press on toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God (Philippians

We receive justification at the time of our

salvation, but this does not excuse us from working out our salvation with fear and trembling (Philippians in fear of losing our justification, but in

fear of not attaining all that God would have us to achieve. (Warning: beware of contrasting God’s predestination with our own personal responsibility, with respect either to justification or progressive sanctification. Paul says such logic is evil: Remans

We honor the law

cannot kill us.

If children grow too old to spank, should they become more rebellious, or should they have matured, showing greater respect? If we, as mature Christians, are free from the

of the law, shouldn’t we be

willing to obey it, in thankfulness?

For further study: Ex. 22; Lev. 18; Deut.

Ps.

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