20 NOVEMBER (UNDATED SERMON)
The stern pedagogue
‘Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.’ Galatians 3:24–25
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Romans 3:9–20
Many transgressors argue, ‘I have not done worse than other people,’ to which the law replies, ‘What have you to do with other people? Each individual must stand or fall on his account before the law. The law is to you. If another has broken it, he shall be punished even as you shall, inasmuch as you have broken it.’ Then the man cries, ‘But I have been better than others.’ But the law says, ‘If you have not walked perfectly in all the ways of the Lord your God to do them, I have nothing to do with comparing you with others: for this is my sentence, “Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.” ’
Now, these are not my words, but the words of God by his servant Moses, and there they stand like a flaming sword, turning every way and blocking up the legal road to the tree of life. Conscience, when it is really awakened by the law, confesses herself condemned and ceases to uphold her plea of innocence. How can it be otherwise when the law is so stern?
Then perhaps the man will say, ‘I mean to do better in the future,’ to which the law replies, ‘What have I to do with that? It is already due that you should be perfect in the future, and if you should be perfect, in what way would that wipe out your old offences? You will only have done what you ought to have done.’ But the man cries, ‘I do repent of having done wrong.’ ‘Yes,’ says the law, ‘but I have nothing to do with repentance.’ There is no provision in the ten commandments for repentance. Cursed is the man that breaks the law; and that is all that the law has to say to him.
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.647 v.2—William Cowper, 1779)
‘How long beneath the law I lay
In bondage and distress!
I toiled the precept to obey,
But toiled without success.’
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 335.
The stern pedagogue
‘Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.’ Galatians 3:24–25
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Romans 3:9–20
Many transgressors argue, ‘I have not done worse than other people,’ to which the law replies, ‘What have you to do with other people? Each individual must stand or fall on his account before the law. The law is to you. If another has broken it, he shall be punished even as you shall, inasmuch as you have broken it.’ Then the man cries, ‘But I have been better than others.’ But the law says, ‘If you have not walked perfectly in all the ways of the Lord your God to do them, I have nothing to do with comparing you with others: for this is my sentence, “Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.” ’
Now, these are not my words, but the words of God by his servant Moses, and there they stand like a flaming sword, turning every way and blocking up the legal road to the tree of life. Conscience, when it is really awakened by the law, confesses herself condemned and ceases to uphold her plea of innocence. How can it be otherwise when the law is so stern?
Then perhaps the man will say, ‘I mean to do better in the future,’ to which the law replies, ‘What have I to do with that? It is already due that you should be perfect in the future, and if you should be perfect, in what way would that wipe out your old offences? You will only have done what you ought to have done.’ But the man cries, ‘I do repent of having done wrong.’ ‘Yes,’ says the law, ‘but I have nothing to do with repentance.’ There is no provision in the ten commandments for repentance. Cursed is the man that breaks the law; and that is all that the law has to say to him.
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.647 v.2—William Cowper, 1779)
‘How long beneath the law I lay
In bondage and distress!
I toiled the precept to obey,
But toiled without success.’
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 335.
20 NOVEMBER (UNDATED SERMON)
The stern pedagogue
‘Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.’ Galatians 3:24–25
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Romans 3:9–20
Many transgressors argue, ‘I have not done worse than other people,’ to which the law replies, ‘What have you to do with other people? Each individual must stand or fall on his account before the law. The law is to you. If another has broken it, he shall be punished even as you shall, inasmuch as you have broken it.’ Then the man cries, ‘But I have been better than others.’ But the law says, ‘If you have not walked perfectly in all the ways of the Lord your God to do them, I have nothing to do with comparing you with others: for this is my sentence, “Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.” ’
Now, these are not my words, but the words of God by his servant Moses, and there they stand like a flaming sword, turning every way and blocking up the legal road to the tree of life. Conscience, when it is really awakened by the law, confesses herself condemned and ceases to uphold her plea of innocence. How can it be otherwise when the law is so stern?
Then perhaps the man will say, ‘I mean to do better in the future,’ to which the law replies, ‘What have I to do with that? It is already due that you should be perfect in the future, and if you should be perfect, in what way would that wipe out your old offences? You will only have done what you ought to have done.’ But the man cries, ‘I do repent of having done wrong.’ ‘Yes,’ says the law, ‘but I have nothing to do with repentance.’ There is no provision in the ten commandments for repentance. Cursed is the man that breaks the law; and that is all that the law has to say to him.
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.647 v.2—William Cowper, 1779)
‘How long beneath the law I lay
In bondage and distress!
I toiled the precept to obey,
But toiled without success.’
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 335.
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