The Law of God

Here's an excerpt from The Law of God, an article R.C. Sproul wrote in 1989 for Tabletalk.

Yesterday, a man I met for the first time asked me, "And what is the Lord doing in your life?" (Something about how he asked the question, the tone of his voice, and his manner in it disturbed me.) The manner of asking was a bit too casual, as if the utterance was mechanical. I suppressed my annoyance and answered as if the question were sincere. I said, "He is impressing upon me the beauty and sweetness of His law." The man obviously was not prepared for my answer. He looked at me as though I was from another planet. He visibly recoiled from my words as if I was weird for uttering them.

We are living in an era in which the law of God is not given much attention either by secularists or by Christians. The law, we assume, is a relic of the past, part of the history of Judaeo-Christianity to be sure, but of no abiding relevance to the Christian life. We are living out, in practice, the antinomian heresy.

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