John Bunyan wrote in a two page article just before he died, his understanding of the relationship of the Christian to the law, how Grace and Law are to be viewed by the Christian.
What follows is the quote I shared with you in last Sundays message.
“Wherefore whenever thou who believest Jesus, dost hear the law in its thundering and lighting fits, as if it would burn up heaven and earth; then say thou I am freed from this law, these thunderings have nothing to do with my soul; nay even this law, while it thus thunders and roareth, it doth both allow and approve of my righteousness, I know that Hagar would sometimes be domineering and high, even in Sarah’s house and against her;
But this she is not to be suffered to do, nay though Sarah herself be barren; wherefore served her, and expel out from thy house.
My meaning is, when this law with its thundering threatenings doth attempt to lay hold of thy conscience, shut it out with a promise of grace; cry, the inn is took up already, the Lord Jesus is here entertained, and there is no room for the law.”
Pastor Mike
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