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The Law of God: Part 13 - Resisting the Allure of Antinomianism

10/14/2020

TBC Glassboro Sermons and More · The Law Of God: Part 13 - Resisting The Allure Of Antinomianism

To resist the allure of antinomianism, believers must remember that Christ has redeemed them from lawlessness.

who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless (anomía) deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds. - Titus 2:14

Being set free from lawlessness, no true believer would want to again enslave themselves. As well, believers must not join together, in spiritual endeavors, with those who are lawless or antinomian.

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness (anomía), or what fellowship has light with darkness? - 2 Corinthians 6:14

The lawless or antinomians are the ungodly.

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness (anomía), resulting in further lawlessness (anomía), so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification. - Romans 6:19

Those who practice lawlessness or antinomianism will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but be cast into the Lake of Fire.

And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness (anomía). - Matthew 7:23
The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness (anomía), and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. - Matthew 13:41

Finally, believers must meditate on God’s Law, regularly.

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate (hāgâ) on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. - Joshua 1:8

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The Law of God: Part 12 - Antinomianism

10/10/2020

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TBC Glassboro Sermons and More · The Law Of God: Part 12 - Antinomianisn

Antinomianism attempts to do away with God’s Law. By teaching that Christians are free from the obligations of God’s Law, antinomianism takes the Biblical teaching — that God’s Law does not save — to an unbiblical conclusion. While God’s Law is not a means of salvation, Christians are still obligated to obey God’s Law as a rule of life (cf. 1 John 5:3).

Antinomianism (anomía) comes from two terms — anti (against) and nomos (law) — meaning lawlessness. God calls lawlessness sin.

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness (anomía); and sin is lawlessness. - 1 John 3:4

Indeed, antinomianism is the spirit of lawlessness that reigns in the children of disobedience.

For the mystery of lawlessness (anomía) is already at work;- 2 Thessalonians 2:7
For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, - Colossians 3:6

By removing God’s Law, antinomianism results in spiritual anarchy. Such anarchy rears its head in the idea that a Christian can live a life of sin and still be forgiven. According to R. C. Sproul, the song of the antinomian is, “Free from the law, O blessed condition; I can sin all I want and still have remission!” (1)

In reality, antinomianism has produced an entire generation of professing Christians, who are still dead in sin. As Sinclair Ferguson stated, in The Whole Christ, “The wholesale removal of the law seems to provide a refuge for the antinomian. But the problem is not the law, but the heart that remains unchanged.” (2)

ENDNOTES:

R. C. Sproul, Pleasing God (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1988), 152.
John MacArthur Jr., The Right Motive in Sanctification. Grace to You Ministries, Retrieved: January 25, 2019 < https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/48-24/the-right-motive-in-sanctification >

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The Law of God: Part 13 - Resisting the Allure of Antinomianism

The Law of God: Part 12 - Antinomianism

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