I'm your host John Harris I'm finally gonna do it I wasn't gonna do it but now I'm gonna do it

and that is talk about Andy Stanley. And the reason I didn't want to

is because I just missed Stanley in my own mind three or four years ago and he started

making comments about the Old Testament and his belief is that the Old

Testament is no longer binding on modern Christians and this parallels something from church history, an ancient

heresy, called Marcianism, which by the way is a form of Gnosticism.

Marcian was an actual Gnostick, not a Gnostick in the sense of the loose

Gnosticism that's being thrown around everywhere today, but he was an actual

Gnostic in the classical sense of that definition and he thought that the Old

Testament was a product of it different God than Jesus an angrier, a God that we did not have to follow as believers

in the New Testament. And Andy Stanley doesn't go that far, but he has the same basic conclusion.

Christians are not bound to Old Testament moral principles, laws, etc. We talked about that issue on this podcast before but when I first

heard the clips from Andy Stanley I just dismissed him because it's a very

clear-cut issue. Jesus respected the Old Testament.

He did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill the law.

Paul said, I would not have known sin if it were not by the law. What law is he talking about?

New Testament wasn't finished. He's writing it.

Whenever New Testament writers bring up categories for sexual sin, they assume the Old Testament.

They assume that there's already a moral standard in effect.

And this is the same moral standard that flows from the character of God that

condemns sinners today and also for those who are

in Christ serves as a guide for them in how to live. Now the outworkings of this law,

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