Sinclair Ferguson

But marry me and you will become the in-law of the law.

The law and you through me will be related to one another.

so that by God's grace, what Paul had said in Romans 8, 3 and 4 begins to become true.

That in Christ's flesh, the law was fulfilled, its penalties fully paid in order that now married to Christ through the Spirit, the just requirements of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

the law and the gospel harmonize in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And it's this that points us in the direction of the gospel cure for our antinomianism.

The gospel cure for our antinomianism is our union with Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit, who in that bond leads us to love the law and be obedient to the law.

Now sometimes it's just at this point that Christians can have difficulties because when you read through the New Testament, especially, for example, in Paul's letters and also in the letter to the Hebrews, there seem to be some very negative things said about the law.

For example, Paul speaking about the law in 2 Corinthians 3 speaks about the law as having no glory at all.

Yes, it seemed to have glory in Moses' day, but now he says, from our point of view, there's no glory at all.

Doesn't that suggest that we can be done with the law?

Maybe an illustration will help here.

And again, of course, illustrations break down.

I remember going to school when I was four years old, and I've no memory of doing anything but loving elementary school.

I was having the time of my life.

But then I went to high school.

And I realized that the teachers in elementary school had been dragons.

They hadn't taught me very much, didn't get any Latin in elementary school or trigonometry in elementary school.

And so now I look back on elementary school and I think, you know, that was like being in prison, but now there's this wonderful freedom to study all these subjects with these people who seem to know so much.

And then I leave school and I go off to university