Law and gospel

doctrine · 9 episodes

173Retrospective 21 Aug 2023 40:04¶ 124 “That was the realization I had in 2020-ish. Other theological topics that I’ve studied have also been very pastoral, kind of reclaiming the idea…” 40:39¶ 126 “That’s right, yes. If I could ever boil down the things that I think are most important, besides Jesus’ work and life and resurrection…” 41:22¶ 127 “I guess in these categories of theology is rest for the soul. It’s saying, look, you should respond to grace with a change of…”

129Of Contracts and Covenants (Part 2) - Dispensationalism v. Covenant Theology 1 Aug 2022 20:14¶ 61 “There’s also the problem of the confusion of law and gospel, which is a sharp distinction, I think sharper than it should be in…” 20:50¶ 62 “Well, if we don’t have the proper distinction between law and gospel, then what’s the problem? We can read the whole thing, so it’s…” 6:11¶ 15 “What’s happened here is we just disconnected the Church from everything in the Old Testament and from everything after the rapture. It’s this little…”

100The Lost Ark 10 Jan 2022 47:39¶ 184 “Just to go back to what you were saying, Greg, about how often there’s the tendency to add error by means of addition to…” 49:51¶ 191 “Yes, they are very much in the same vein. But to draw it to the point, this has been around since Paul, this error.…” 50:24¶ 192 “The laziest person in the world will still think, “I can make myself better, and I can improve my situation by sheer grit, sheer…”

93Jephthah 22 Nov 2021 40:08¶ 161 “It’s part of the work of the law. Paul talks about how the law teaches me what my sin is. If we’re not giving…” 40:53¶ 163 “I think I brought up how Song of Solomon was something that Jewish children weren’t allowed to read until they had reached the age…” 41:40¶ 165 “And what it means. It will be counterpointed in solid teaching with gospel where it’s like, “Look, this is something you’re supposed to do,…”

76The Theology of the Conquest 26 Jul 2021 30:13¶ 96 “We were talking about the death of the sinner as dying to sin and to self. One of the most beautiful aspects of Lutheran…” 31:10¶ 98 “It’s easy in such a Lutheran hermeneutic – although not unavoidable by any means – to say, “This verse is law and this verse…” 31:48¶ 99 “All that is law is holy and rooted in God’s own nature, but as it comes to us, if we receive it as a…”

74Joshua the War-Leader 11 Jul 2021 50:56¶ 176 “If we’re looking at these actors typologically then there’s Moses, who represents the Law, there is Joshua, who represents Jesus and the covenant of…” 51:20¶ 177 “When you plug those pieces in it becomes a little obvious the message why Galatians is so strong about the relationship between faith and…” 38:29¶ 137 “Well, they obviously don’t in the end, and there’s something there, too. Moses, who represents the law, does not bring the people into the…”

71What Is Faith? 6 Jun 2021 12:43¶ 44 “This just comes back to once again properly distinguishing law and gospel, which is something Luther just hammers home. That’s his thing. That’s the…” 13:12¶ 45 “I’m reminded as well of Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen, where he says the gospel is at base a story about something…” 13:27¶ 46 “Right, it’s not our story except insofar as we benefit from the results of it. It’s good news, not a cooking recipe or a…”

62In The Wilderness 7 Mar 2021 36:37¶ 112 “I don’t remember where I read this, but it was this really interesting observation about how the people of Israel, all the way through…” 37:01¶ 113 “He rescues them from the Egyptians. He brings them safely out. And once the law is given to them, people start dying every time…” 37:30¶ 115 “Yeah, that one was not smart. Every step of the way, the law brings condemnation and death. It is good and just, but we’re…”

46Faithful Witness 15 Nov 2020 40:22¶ 162 “I think I’m going to recommend a concept, and that is the law/gospel distinction, because I feel like there are a great many people…” 41:53¶ 172 “Literally. I got one that was almost identical to that, and others that were in the same camp. “You do not seem to know…” 42:13¶ 173 “Now, it leads us back to obedience by empowering us to obedience and showing us what obedience looks like, but you might as well…”