The Law and the Gospel

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   DE MARIA May 9, 2013 at 12:12 pm

   RD May 9, 2013 at 1:39 am
   De Maria
   1. As you know, the word ‘Gospel’ means good news, and this good news relates to God’s plan of salvation.

   Correct.

   2. Paul however clearly distinguishes between gospel and law.

   Where?

   The command to love your neighbour is a command and as such it is law, the lex Christi. It is not the gospel; it is the law that drives us to the gospel

   The Law brings us to Christ. The Gospel is the Good News of Christ. But Christ did not dispense with the Ten Commandments. As it is written:
   John 14:21
   He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

   3. Nor is suffering the gospel, though it may be the means by which God disciplines His children

   Suffering with Christ is a very important part of the Gospel:
   1 Peter 2:21
   For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

   By suffering and dying on the Cross, Christ gave us the lesson of how we will also go to heaven with Him. Again, it is written:
   Romans 8:17
   And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

   4. The law is in essence what God demands from us; the good news of the gospel is essentially what God has done for us in Christ in the face of our failure to obey the law.

   The Gospel is the good news that God still loves us and still saves those who obey His Commandments. And He sent His only begotten Son to give us an example of how we can be saved through Him.

   Hebrews 5:9
   And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;