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Legalism is a problem in the church, but so is anti-nomianism. Granted, I don't hear anyone saying, 'Let's continue in sin that grace may abound'. That's the worse form of antinomianism. But strictly speaking, antinomianism simply means no-law, and some Christians have very little place for the law in their pursuit of holiness.
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)
Situationist antinomianism says that a motive and intention of love is all that God now requires of Christians, and the commands of the Decalogue and other ethical parts of Scripture, for all that they are ascribed to God directly, are mere rules of thumb for loving, rules that love may at any time disregard. But Romans 1 3:8-10, to which this view appeals, teaches that without love as a motive these specific commands cannot be fulfilled. Once more an unacceptably weak view of Scripture surfaces.Concise Theology
Believe God's word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea.
At root then antinomianism separates God's law from God's person, and grace from the union with Christ in which the law is written in the heart. In doing so it jeopardizes not simply the Decalogue; it dismantles the truth of the gospel.The Whole Christ: Legalism, Antinomianism, and Gospel Assurance Why the Marrow Controversy Still Matters (pp. 154). Crossway
[Antinomians] blur the distinction between impetration and application, and so make Christ totally responsible, not only for our imputed righteousness, but also for our imparted righteousness. On the surface, such a view appears to honor Christ. But on closer inspection, this view obliterates human responsibility to the point that antinomianism ends up becoming a form of hyper-Calvinism.Antinomianism (Loc 693/ Kindle)
Scholars today who accuse the Puritans of legalism are simply echoing a pattern well established in the seventeenth century by antinomian theologians, who hurled the "legalist" epiphet-as well as "crypto-papist" and the like-at those who were thoroughly Reformed in their theology.Antinomianism (Loc 320 / Kindle)
Grace is not educed or extracted out of the potency of any created nature. Grace is born in heaven, and came from the inmost of the heart of Christ; it hath neither seed nor parent on earth, therefore the Lord challengeth it as his own
It is an abasement of Christ, that he who gives such a ransom to justice for free-grace, should wait for a penny from sinners; that sinners must bid and buy, and engage him to give, and Christ say, you must give me more, I must sell, not give grace for nothing. Your penny-worths cannot roll about that everlasting wheel of free-grace, the decree of election, or bow or break Christ's free heart to save you, rather than another.https://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
I covered (saith Christ) thy nakedness. O what a garment of glory is the imputed righteousness of Christ! Bring forth the best robe, and put on him. This is the white raiment that clothed the shame of our nakedness.https://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
The manner of grace's working on saints is gracious, and so essentially free; as is evident in our first drawing to Christ, when many sins are forgiven, and so the soul loves much; and the sweetest burden in heaven, or out of heaven, is a burden of the love of Christhttps://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
there lies and flows such a sea and ocean of infinite love about the heart, and in the bowels of Jesus Christ, as would over-save, and out-love infinite world of sinnershttps://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
But for the ground, reason and cause on Christ's part of drawing, it is free-grace, and only free-grace; https://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
Men have a sort of satisfaction in their natural condition: a whole man desires no physician. A dead man hath some negative content to lie in grave; he can have no acts of sorrow for want of life. (2.) We do not put forth any stirring of life or desire toward that which is naturally above us: a child in the belly hath no acts toward a crown or a kingdom in this life, because desires are bottomed and founded on nature; as an ape, or a horse, hath no desire to be a man.https://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
We believe that repentance and mortification involve a real, personal turning from sin—a weakening of the lusts of the old nature, a dying to the pleasures of sin, and a growing desire for heavenly things. This flows from union with Christ in His death and resurrection, apprehended by faith.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
The Law commands us to love God with all our heart. That law required Abraham to offer his son, and Judah to return from exile— not because those acts were written in specific commandments, but because love for God requires obedience to whatever He commands. In this way, we are bound to obey God the Redeemer as well as God the Lawgiverhttps://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
pardoned sin is still sin. Sorrow for having pierced Christ is the Gospel groaning of the dove. This is godly sorrow.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Grace is not lawless. True grace is: Active and obedient, Thankful and holy, Eager to honor the Lawgiver, Concerned for the glory of the gospel, Joyful and bold in Christ, Yet tender and reverent, as if there were no gospel— And free and fearless, as if there were no curse.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Our obedience is not a means of earning righteousness, but a response to grace, flowing from the Spirit.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Antinomians go too far by claiming that believers are now released from all obligation to obey—as if any call to duty were legalism.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Contrary to the Antinomian view, the moral law must still be preached as binding believers to personal obediencehttps://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
We strongly reject the Antinomian claim that God sees no adultery, lying, blasphemy, or deceit in believers, even if they commit such sins. It is true that God does not see the sins of believers as a Judge to condemn them, but He most certainly sees them as a Father who disciplines His children.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Antinomians also err by confusing justification and sanctification. They teach that believers are as inherently sinless as Christ Himself—that original sin, the old man, and the flesh are entirely gone.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Justification is not the destruction of sin itself, but rather the legal removal of guilt and condemnation before God.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
The gospel does not lower the standard of perfection. It commands all that the law commands, in the same holiness and purity. "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect," and "Be holy, for I am holy," remain gospel commands. The difference is in acceptance, not in requirement. The gospel pardons our failures, but it does not dispense with any of God's commands.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
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