Distinction between Law and Gospel: Fact or Fiction? Matters Much or Little? (Part 9)

In our discourse about distinguishing law and gospel in the covenantal framework, we must address the issues of commands and conditions existing in the covenant of grace. Many seem to see demands and conditions in the covenant of grace to then mean that there is a law conditionality in the covenant of grace just as there is in the covenant of works. Said another way, “demands to do” in the covenant of grace implies a law conditionality and or obedience conditionality in the covenant of grace. This contention brings us to our last and final point.

The following points were laid out and discussed in a Reconcile Church Miami Small Group. They are meant to provide directional insight when understanding/interpreting the Bible, particularly when interpretations from Dispensationalists are presented. They are offered here in summary format.

Distinction between Law and Gospel: Fact or Fiction? Matters Much or Little? (Part 8)

We continue our examination of the various nuances of the way law is used in scripture in order to rightly understand it. In order to continue this topic, we need to address how the law is used specifically in the covenant of grace.

Distinction between Law and Gospel: Fact or Fiction? Matters Much or Little? (Part 7)

We have addressed the biblical reasons for distinguishing the law in different covenant arrangements and have demonstrated this as a legitimate biblical interpretive filter which is central in all scripture, we must now address the contextual range of the word law in scripture.

Distinction between Law and Gospel: Fact or Fiction? Matters Much or Little? (Part 6)

We come now to the conclusion to the last part of our assertion in part four of our series which is how we see the law of God as it is administered under the covenant of grace. Again, law is not opposed to gospel so much as the law in administration of the covenant of grace is opposed and distinguished as it is administered in the covenant of works (Galatians 4:21-31; 2 Corinthians 3:7-11). Law is opposed to gospel in different covenants as it pertains to justification and redemption, not as it pertains to the need to be subject to the law.