The law and the gospel. Spurgeon once said, "There is no point on which men make greater mistakes than on [this]. Scripture commands us to rightly divide the word of truth (2 Tim 2:15). The law-gospel distinction is the key way Protestants have historically understood Scripture are divided. If you mess this up, you understand not the truth" (Spurgeon).
Unfortunately, honestly dictates that we understand that in fact most Protestants in our day not only mess this distinction up, they do not even know what it is! This is one of the most serious and grevious of the sins of our age. For it means that we do not even know the rudiments of reading the Scriptures correctly. This sermon is a greatly needed corrective to the moralism/legalisim as well as the antinomianism (lawlessness) of our day. If you truly want to know how to read the Scriptures with the saints already in glory, you must learn this critical and vital distinction.
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Doug Van Dorn is the founding pastor of Reformed Baptist Church of Northern Colorado. He is a graduate of Denver Seminary, and he and his wife, Janelle, are proud parents of two daughters.
