Bible Readings:
Luke 1:26-56
Matthew 5:17-32
Sermon Outline:
James 2:8–13 (NKJV)
8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well;
9 but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.
11 For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
12 So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.
13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
I Breaking the royal law
II The perfect law of liberty
The Law
The law sends us to the gospel for our justification;
the gospel sends us to the law to frame our way of life … Christ has freed us from the manner of our obedience,
but not from the matter of our obedience.
Samuel Bolton
Without law, love is blind.
Samuel Bolton
Law makes love practical.
Love makes the law enjoyable.
Walter J. Chantry
Moral law imposes no heavy bondage.
It points to the glorious liberty of love, joy and peace.
All its ways are good for a man.
Walter J. Chantry