I made the point yesterday that the Christian is a man with the knowledge of God. But that’s not all. The truth of God is a living truth, a truth that begets life. Mere knowledge of God, even knowledge of God’s truth, isn’t an end in itself. Rather, a true and saving knowledge of God’s will is the foundation of Christian character and conduct. Continue reading “The Christian applies the knowledge of God to his life”
The Christian is a man with the knowledge of God
What’s the relationship between Christian life and Christian doctrine? Can a man be a Christian without knowing God in a saving way? Of course not. But can a man have a saving knowledge of God and not live a life that accords with it? Again, of course not. Christian life and Christian doctrine are not only inseparably connected, but vitally connected. Continue reading “The Christian is a man with the knowledge of God”
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The Moral Law and Puritan Spirituality
One of the saddest effects of Scofieldian Dispensationalism on the landscape of the American church is the almost wholesale disregard for and discarding of the Moral Law. Scofield taught a stark division between Old Testament Israel and the New Testament church, a division so great that the two were not one people or one church or under one covenant of grace, but were rather two peoples under two covenants, and two churches in two different administrations. Indeed, the New Testament church hardly needs the Old Testament, according to Scofield, since it is a book of the Jews, by the Jews, and therefore for the Jews. The New Testament church has all it needs in the New Testament revelation. Continue reading “The Moral Law and Puritan Spirituality”
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No longer a slave to sin
I want to explain what Paul means in Rom 7.21-23 by the believer finding sin to be a law within him. Many Christians struggle with the entire passage of Romans 7.7-25, and we can’t take time to deal with it as a whole. But if we can understand what Paul means by the law of sin, it’ll illuminate not only this passage but every letter Paul wrote. If this gets a little foggy at times, just keep reading. It will get clearer, and the payoff is gloriously liberating. Continue reading “No longer a slave to sin”
