In chapter 3, “The Law,” Jones shows that antinomians minimized the role of God’s law as the rule of life for the believer (Calvin’s third, or didactic, use of the law). Antinomians believed that we should preach the law primarily to remind believers that they’re free from it. But Jones shows that the gospel in no way diminishes the believer’s duty to keep the law. Instead, the great indicatives of the gospel, which are the purchase of Christ, strengthen the believer’s obligation to keep the law. Christ’s love for believers in no way decreases the importance of keeping the moral law, but increases it. Christ’s people need the moral law as an instrument, or means, in their sanctification to identify sin and to guide them in holiness. Tom Hicks review of Mark Jones (Ligionier) book: Antinomianism
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 02:14:27 +0000