Cures for Antinomianism
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Do you love the law of God? Or does it seem a harsh burden? Today, Sinclair Ferguson demonstrates how the gospel helps us see the law as a gift and respond to it correctly.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
Sinclair Ferguson is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow, vice-chairman of Ligonier Ministries, and Chancellor's Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | We don't live in the days of the old covenant. |
| 0:02.5 | We live in the days of the new covenant and the gift of the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:06.3 | But the question is, what does the Holy Spirit do? |
| 0:09.4 | What is the promise of the new covenant? |
| 0:12.1 | The promise of the new covenant is that when the Spirit of Christ comes and in dwells believers, |
| 0:19.1 | he writes the law of God into our hearts. |
| 0:29.1 | There are dangers surrounding both legalism and lawlessness in the Christian life. In the 18th century, |
| 0:36.3 | there was great controversy in Scotland about the book |
| 0:38.8 | The Morrow of Modern Divinity and the questions it raised for the church. It was a significant |
| 0:44.8 | moment in Scottish church history, but it's also a topic that's relevant for you and me today. |
| 0:51.0 | This is the Friday edition of Renewing your mind, and today you'll hear one message |
| 0:56.1 | from Sinclair Ferguson's series, The Whole Christ, on how we should deal with lawlessness |
| 1:01.1 | in the Christian life, or what is often called antinomianism. To learn more about the marrow |
| 1:07.5 | controversy, and to hear Dr. Ferguson go in-depth on legalism and lawlessness |
| 1:12.5 | request this gospel-rich series The Whole Christ when you give a donation at renewingyourmind.org |
| 1:19.5 | before midnight tonight. We'll unlock the series for you in the free Ligonier app and we'll send |
| 1:25.4 | you the DVD and a physical copy of the study guide. |
| 1:28.5 | But be quick, because this offer is only available today. |
| 1:33.4 | So what is the cure for lawlessness? |
| 1:35.9 | And what is the Christian's relationship to the law of God? |
| 1:39.7 | Here's Ligonier's Vice Chairman Sinclair Ferguson. We've been talking recently about these problems, endemic problems really in the Christian |
| 1:50.9 | life of legalism and antonomianism. And one of the things we've been seeing so interestingly |
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