Many ill-informed and dismissive comments are made about
those who advocate the law of Christ, and not the law of Moses,
as the believer’s rule. Speaking for myself, I do not merely resent
this. It is a travesty. It hinders many in making a fair assessment
of new-covenant theology. Worse, it is a direct offence against
the Lord Christ himself. Christ’s law is not foggy sentiment. 1
Christ is not content with a woolly obedience, a vague profession
of some sort of ‘love’. He demands total, unstinted, constant and
continual obedience, out of the highest possible motives –
because he loved me, because of all that he is, because of all he
has done for me, because he has taught me to love him, because
he has written his law on my heart, because he himself has been
formed within me, and because he has given me his Spirit, the
one who moves me to live in increasing conformity to my
Redeemer’s likeness to the glory of God. |
