A child will chase a shadow because she thinks it is real. So it is with an unregenerate zealously religious sinner. He will follow after the law, preach the law, and whip others with the law, revealing that though he gives lip service to Christ and the doctrine of free grace, he really, honestly, ignorantly thinks the law is the substance of salvation.

Like that foolish child chasing her shadow, the dead religious sinner can not help chase after salvation by his reformation of morality. He will not do otherwise. Neither does he desire to do otherwise. Because no man can do otherwise until God shines the Light; until the Holy Spirit makes Christ the very Image from which the shadow is cast, him who embodies the good things toward which the types foreshadowed.

It is not God's fault. God's Light always shines. The law has always been a shadow of good things to come cast from the person of God's Son. It is the sinner's own darkness which causes the childish folly. Only when God says, "Let there be Light" does he illuminate his law so that a sinner beholds Christ the Light behind the law. Behind the law?

Indeed, for when God speaks in a sinner's heart, saying, "Let there be Light" then the sinner follows the shadow backwards like you follow the shadow of a tree to the very image of the tree which made it. There, standing more firm than the tallest cedar of Lebanon, the regenerated sinner beholds the very Image from which the shadow was cast.

Now the self-professed Christian realizes for the first time that chasing after a dead-letter-obedience found in the epistles is the same as chasing after the law of Sinai for God's acceptance. For a sinner to turn from one to the other without being born of the Spirit of God is like that little child who continues grasping for the shadow only to have her arms wrap around herself.

Now the born again believer traces the shadow of the law back to the beginning and comes to Christ--the very Image. Like a child who first stumbles upon the base of a giant oak the sinner saved by grace looks up in amazement at the solid, immoveable Substance and in true humility cries out with boldness before the whole world, "Behold, all my Salvation!"

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SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH Of Princeton, New Jersey

LOCATION & TELEPHONE
Rocky Hill Firehouse, 2nd floor
150 Washington Street, Rocky Hill, NJ, 08553
Pastor's Telephone: 615-513-4464

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES
Sunday 10 AM Bible Class
11 AM Morning Worship
Thursday 7:00 PM Mid-week Service
(The first Sunday of each month, morning worship begins at 10am followed by observing the Lord's Table. Afterwards we have lunch together.)