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Originally Posted by Blueridge Baptist  More confusion. Here he says we are not bound by the moral law but we are not free to live contrary to it. SOVEREIGN GRACE ARTICLES
Let me state emphatically that there is no sense in which the believer is under the law. We observe no covenant with the law, no ceremony of the law, and no commitment to the law. And we fear no curse from the law. In the fullest sense of the word, we are free! In writing to the Galatians about the moral law (and we know that it was the moral law and not the ceremonial law that is in question, because he quotes directly from Deuteronomy 27:26, a passage dealing specifically with the moral law) the Apostle Paul said, "Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." And he calls it foolish and bewitching for a man to suppose that he can be either justified or sanctified by the law. In every respect, "Christ is the end of the law's types, ceremonies, covenants, and commandments. Our legal and moral commitment to the law of God was fully satisfied in the Representative Life and Substitutionary Death of the Lord Jesus Christ in our stead.
But I must, with equal emphasis, say the believer has neither the desire nor the liberty to break the law of God in any point. We are not antinomians (Lawless or against the law) though he may lay that hidious charge against us for insisting upon our freedom from the law, even as they did against the Apostle Paul. But the law is not our principle of life. |
I agree wholeheartedly with this and give an Amen. As far as I see it he is only speaking of the active obedience of Christ imputed to the believer. AS far as his take on the sabbath, I am not so sure about that one. He is right about one thing though, Paul himself was called antinomian also. Sanctification through Christs active obedience is a grand truth.
Fortner also believes in immediate sanctification, not progressive sanctification, therefore he is starting from this understanding in regards to law in my estimation. I do agree that we are never alone in our journey and can never take Christ out of the equation for sanctification.