TimeRedeemer
Puritan Board Freshman
And to get a right 'feel' for the new relationship to the law post-regeneration and once already justified think of the different feel these terms have:
legalism, chain, can't do that
vs.
new birth, Christian liberty, spiritual warfare
We associate spiritual warfare as a positive thing that we DESIRE to do, and it's here that our new relation to the law exists as well. It's something we desire to do (and it's tempered by our new birth which gives us ability to do it, and by our Christian liberty which frees us from it as a means of justification and hence as a curse).
legalism, chain, can't do that
vs.
new birth, Christian liberty, spiritual warfare
We associate spiritual warfare as a positive thing that we DESIRE to do, and it's here that our new relation to the law exists as well. It's something we desire to do (and it's tempered by our new birth which gives us ability to do it, and by our Christian liberty which frees us from it as a means of justification and hence as a curse).