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The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then, not in the fact that the Christian has nothing more to do with the law, but lies in the fact that the law demands nothing more from the Christian as a condition of salvation. The law can no longer judge and condemn him. Instead he delights in the law of God according to the inner man and yearns for it day and night.
though the moral law be thus far abolished, it remains as a perpetual rule to believers. Though it be not their Saviour, it is their guide. Though it be not foedus, a covenant of life; yet it is norma, a rule of life. Every Christian is bound to conform to it; and to write, as exactly as he can after this copy. 'Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid.' Rom iii 31. Though a Christian is not under the condemning power of the law, yet he is under its commanding power.The Ten Commandments, 44
We live in a day and age in which Christianity throughout North America is primarily antinomian. You're saved by grace perhaps, or at least mostly through grace and partly your free will, so you can be free. Free to do what you want.https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermons/5191514403910 (11 mins)
The moral teaching of Christ and his apostles is the old law deepened and reapplied to new circumstances--life in the kingdom of God, where the Savior reigns; and in the post-Pentecost era of the Spirit, where God's people are called to live heaven's life among themselves and to be God's counterculture in the world.Concise Theology, Section 34
Christ in fact had not the least intent of making any change or innovation in the precepts of the law. God there appointed once for all a rite of life which he will never repent of... so let us have no more of that error, that here a defect of the law is corrected by Christ; Christ is not to be made into a new law-giver, adding anything to the everlasting righteousness of his Father, but is to be given the attention of a faithful interpreter, teaching us the nature of the law, its object and its scope.
There is no thought, no word, no act, and no area of human life that is not affected by sin.
In short, doctrinally, Puritanism was a kind of vigorous Calvinism; experientially, it was warm and contagious; evangelistically, it was aggressive, yet tender; ecclesiastically, it was theocentric and worshipful; and politically, it aimed to be scriptural and balanced.
Lead Family Worship with a firm, fatherly hand and a soft, penitent heart: Even when you're bone-weary after a day's work, pray for strength to carry out your fatherly duty. Remember that Christ Jesus went to the cross for you bone-weary and exhausted but never shrunk from His mission. As you deny yourself, you will see how He strengthens you during Family Worship, so that by the time you finish, your exhaustion is overcome.Theology of the Family, 96
We might be tempted to rewrite this today and say, "Foolish is the man who delights in the law of the Lord and wastes his time meditating on it day and night." We might think that only a legalist takes delight in the law and spends more than five minutes a year meditating upon it. But God says, "Blessed is the man…."How Does God\'s Law Apply to Me?
Has anything changed about God that we would disregard His directives? Is His word still law? Is He still as sovereign as He was in the Old Testament? Is the God of Israel and of the New Testament church a commandment giving God? His word is law, and His law is His word, because His law expresses His will. And that will, that law, is sweeter than honey (Ps. 119:103).How Does God\'s Law Apply to Me?
For a Christian to say, "I once loved the law, but now I love Christ and ignore the law," is simply not to love Christ, because Christ loved the law.How Does God\'s Law Apply to Me?
A man's house is his castle, and God's law, as well as man's, sets a guard up upon it; he that assaults it does so at his peril.Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1:291
One great use for which the moral law serveth is to bring men to a sight and sense of their sins and imperfections, and humble them before God: Rom. 7:7, 'I had not known sin but by the law, for I had not known lust except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet;' and to undeceive them of conceits of their own goodness and righteousness. Look into thy bill, what owest thouhttps://www.monergism.com/rich-young-ruler-exposition-mark-1017-27-ebook
The law is the same everywhere, and the will of God is always one, because God is but one and is never changed. Nevertheless, the commandments were first set down in tablets by God, who was the beginner and writer of them; and after that, were again written into books by Moses.The Decades, https://www.monergism.com/decades-ebook
First of all, therefore, let no man think that before Moses' time there was no law, and that the law was first published by Moses. For the same special points of the moral law, which Moses sets down in the Ten Commandments, were very well known to the patriarchs, even from the beginning of the world.The Decades, https://www.monergism.com/decades-ebook
The MORAL law is that which teaches men manners, and lays down before us the shape of virtue; declaring with it how great are the righteousness, godliness, obedience, and perfection that God looks for at the hands of us mortal men.The Decades, https://www.monergism.com/decades-ebook
The law of God, openly published and proclaimed by the Lord our God himself, sets down ordinary rules for us to know what we have to do, and what to leave undone, requiring obedience, and threatening utter destruction to disobedient rebels. This law is divided into the MORAL, CEREMONIAL, and JUDICIAL laws: all the parts of which, and every point of which, Moses has very exquisitely written, and diligently expounded.The Decades, https://www.monergism.com/decades-ebook
Do not expect to grow in holiness if you spend little time alone with God and do not take His Word seriously.Living Zealously, Reformation Heritage Books, 2012
Spiritual adoption is the excellency and apex of God’s salvation.A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life, Reformation Heritage Books, 2012
Christ did not come to earth simply to be our moral teacher. If that were His only mission, He could have come as He did in former times, as the Angel of the Lord, without our flesh and blood to encumber Him.Why Christ Came: 31 Meditations on the Incarnation, Reformation Heritage Books, 2013
God’s Word, when rightly expounded, is medicinal for a whole host of spiritual diseases.Reformed Preaching, Crossway, 2018
The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.Living for God’s Glory: An Introduction to Calvinism, Reformation Heritage Books, 2008
The love of Christ is insatiable. The more you experience His redeeming love, the more you desire it. The more you desire it, the more you want to dwell on it.A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life, Reformation Heritage Books, 2012
Faith is not bare knowledge or passive persuasion but the embrace of Christ by the heart, resulting in personal knowledge of God.Parenting by God’s Promises, Reformation Trust, 2011
Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your calling, give thanks to God, and go on preaching the Gospel.The Faithful Minister, Tabletalk, May 2008, p. 36
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