If One Uses It Lawfully
Subtitle: the law of Moses and the Christian life
Publisher: Wipf & Stock
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Eugene, OR
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9781532648977; 9781532648991
Copyright date: 2018
Description: Back cover: Are the Ten Commandments the standard for Christian living? There are many viewpoints on the place of the Mosaic Law today. Some affirm that while we are not saved through keeping the law, it remains our standard for living, a pattern to be followed. Others say we are free from the law. This brief examination of the law affirms all of God's revelation as Christian Scripture, but acknowledges covenantal differences in God's dealings with believers. The progress of salvation history, and our identification with Christ, has altered our relationship to the Mosaic Law. Using the Law ""lawfully"" requires us to recognize the way in which the New Testament, and chiefly the Apostle Paul, treats the law. Paul presents the believer as having died to the law, and serving now in the new way of the Spirit, a way that does not depend on the Mosaic law. The pattern for the New Testament believer remains Jesus himself. While keeping all of God's law, he went beyond its requirement to demonstrate a love for sinners that the law did not know.
Notes: 9781532648977 (paperback)
1532648979 (paperback)
9781532648991 (e-book)
1532648995 (e-book)
Table of contents: title: Why then the law?; title: Law : its definition and extent; title: The purpose of law in salvation history; title: Are believers obligated to the law?; title: The Ten Commandments in the New Testament; title: As you received Christ, walk in Him; title: Epilogue