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do you do Some people look at God's law and think of it as a restrictive means of

control something that takes all the fun out of life. Today on Truth for Life

we'll find out that God's law is actually a means of loving and protecting us.

Alistairbegg is teaching from Hebrews chapter 10 and Romans chapter 8.

We say no to sin and yes to righteousness, not as a result of struggling to keep the law, but

by the power of the indwelling spirit. The believer gives up looking to the law in terms of any of

this ceremonial legislation and mosaic material. That's why we're not doing the sacrifices. That's why

we're not going back to these things. That's why the Council of Jerusalem in

Acts Chapter 15 was so crucial because they were hammering out these very issues.

Well what part then does all this old stuff fail? because they were hammering out these very issues.

Well, what part then does all this old stuff fit

in our newfound profession of faith in Jesus?

And as they worked that out together,

they were laying down, if you like, a foundational premise from which everything else must follow.

So the believer gives up looking to the law for justification or for sanctification. When the reformers picked up this material, they spoke in terms of the

threefold function of the law, and they spoke of the law first of all in terms of its

civil or political function obviously within the context of the mosaic law, but even beyond that the reformers were quick to point out that as we said in the outset,

the Ten Commandments, the moral law of God actually are a specific summary statement of how the world is able to work perfectly according to the plan of the Creator.

When people come around and say, you know, the pathway to freedom is to overturn these dreadful and ridiculous commands of God.

Then the reformers said, no, that is actually the pathway to chaos because the law of the Lord is perfect. There's a reason

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