The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - Is There A Law⧸Gospel Hermeneutic In The Text Of Scripture？

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00:00:41.620 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the

00:00:46.320 mouth of God. You're listening to Daily Truth. I do believe that virtually every text in the Bible

00:00:54.540 can fall into one of those two major categories. This is an indicative, meaning it's the incentive,

00:01:00.320 the motive, the gospel motivation for obeying the commands of God. And this other text is

00:01:06.160 primarily falls underneath the banner of an imperative. It is a command from God. It's law.

00:01:12.260 Now, the disclaimer that I would add to that is that I don't believe that there is a good news,

00:01:18.780 bad news hermeneutic and scripture. I believe there is a law and gospel hermeneutic that's

00:01:24.680 not just rooted in the ears of the hearer. It's not just relative to the one who is receiving

00:01:29.980 God's message, but there actually is a hermeneutic of law and gospel in the text itself, in the Bible,

00:01:37.400 indicatives and imperatives, motives, commands, law or gospel and law. However, all that being

00:01:44.860 said, I wouldn't call it this good news slash bad news hermeneutic because for the one who is in

00:01:50.980 Christ, even the law is good news. It is good news. It's not entirely good news. The law of God

00:01:58.240 is bad news in the sense that no man will be saved by works as done unto the law, which is what the

00:02:04.680 apostle Paul says abundantly clearly in the book of Romans. So if you're looking at the law of God

00:02:11.000 as a way of justifying yourself before a thrice holy God.

00:02:15.360 If you're looking at the law of God

00:02:16.860 as a means of achieving your own salvation

00:02:20.140 by your own works, your own will, your own flesh,

00:02:23.800 then certainly the law of God is nothing but bad news.

00:02:27.520 The law of God condemns every single human being

00:02:30.940 before God's throne.

00:02:32.800 God is holy and each of us have fallen short of his glory.

00:02:37.200 All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

00:02:39.360 However, for the Christian, the one who has been born again and received perfect finished forgiveness on account of Christ Jesus, for the Christian, we are able to look at the law of God and not merely see condemnation, but rather knowing that through faith, not by works so that no man can boast, but by the gift of God, by grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone, we have received Christ's righteousness.

00:03:06.040 we've been clothed in Christ's righteousness and therefore the law no longer condemns us

00:03:11.560 there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus but the law as Connor just preached

00:03:17.200 a moment ago it guides us so we no longer look to the law in its first use and stand condemned

00:03:25.080 we do see the law as a mirror revealing our sin and our continual need for Christ and his

00:03:30.040 forgiveness. But we don't see in the law of God a reflection of us standing as condemned sinners

00:03:37.360 before a holy God. We know that we have been forgiven. We have been washed. We have been

00:03:42.820 reconciled to God by the blood of Christ's cross. And so for the Christian, we look to the law of

00:03:49.840 God as a reminder of how we've fallen short, but how Christ has bridged the gap. It's a reminder

00:03:56.740 of the beauty and the majesty of the gospel. It's a reminder of God's forgiveness. It's a reminder

00:04:03.320 of love, which covers a multitude of sins. And that's in its first use of the law of God. But

00:04:10.760 in its third use, the law of God is also a lamp unto our feet. It's a light unto our path. It's

00:04:16.720 a compass. It's a guide. It shows us the way in which we should walk. And therefore we can say,

00:04:22.240 as David says, I delight in the law of God. So I don't like the language of, you know, there's good

00:04:29.300 news and bad news. You know, part of the scripture is bad news, part of it's good news. No, for the

00:04:34.600 Christian, it's all good news. The law of God is something that the Christian delights in. It shows

00:04:40.640 us how to live in the world. It shows us how to walk through various trials, what decisions, what

00:04:47.720 wisdom we should apply in various situations. The law of God is good, holy, and righteous. And so

00:04:55.440 we rejoice in the law of God. So law gospel hermeneutic or imperative indicative hermeneutic,

00:05:03.560 not just rooted relative to the hearer, the person, but actually rooted in the text itself.

00:05:09.620 Yes, I would agree with that basic premise that there actually is a law gospel paradigm in the

00:05:16.720 text. But that is not, that should not be truncated into saying there is therefore a bad news, good

00:05:23.540 news hermeneutic in the text. Law gospel in the text, yes. But I would call that good news, good

00:05:30.740 news hermeneutic in the text. They're both good. The law of God is good. It is only truly bad news

00:05:37.120 for the person who does not have faith in Jesus. And that's one of the things that we're going to

00:05:41.640 see in our text today. So the first point is I want us to focus on the gospel. I want us to see

00:05:47.060 the voice of affirmation that we receive for those who are in Christ Jesus through faith. The blood

00:05:52.740 of Christ that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. But later we'll see as I've already began

00:05:57.880 to espouse we'll see that good news is in the ear of the hearer at least to an extent. At least to

00:06:05.300 an extent the person who is in Christ is able to hear certain truths of the scripture as good news 0.99

00:06:12.300 as good news whereas the unbeliever who presently according to scripture stands underneath the just

00:06:20.020 wrath of God stands underneath God's condemnation by their continual rejection of God's son Jesus 0.98

00:06:26.360 Christ and his finished work for the elect that person the unbeliever is going to hear certain

00:06:32.080 things as bad news. They're going to be turned off by certain things, whereas the Christian 0.97

00:06:37.000 is able to look at those same truths and rejoice. The Christian is able to look at those same things 0.93

00:06:42.540 and rejoice. Can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end? Look, some of you

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The NXR Podcast - February 13, 2023

DAILY TRUTH - Is There A Law⧸Gospel Hermeneutic In The Text Of Scripture？

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