Can you teach/preach law to Christians?

[DexterMorse2f]

I'm slowly working through Law and Gospel.
Here is my question.

Can you preach law to Christians?

If yes, which scriptures support your yes?

If yes, how would you go about preaching law to Christians, and then the Gospel?

 

[Aibrean]

Yes. Exodus 20 + 2 Timothy 3:16. Lastly, in that order (law then gospel).

 

[cerette]

The Bible is full of law. Yes, we can and need to preach law to Christians. One reason is that the law makes us aware of our sin, and our need for forgiveness. Here are links to two Bible lessons about the law:

http://www.clclutheran.org/lfm/lfm06.pdf

http://www.clclutheran.org/lfm/lfm07.pdf

 

[DexterMorse2f]

Thanks.

 

[DexterMorse2f]

Wather says you shouldn't mingle/mix law with Gospel.
How does one preach/encourage righteous living without it coming across as a demand, but rather as a gift? That seems to be the stark contrast between law and gospel if I'm correct.

Law demands, the gospel gives.

So how is righteous living encouraged without it being tainted by the law?

Can you all give some example sentences of what such an encouragement to righteous living may look like?

 

[cerette]

The mixing of law and gospel would be things like "Say 5 prayers and then you'll be forgiven!" or "If you behave better you'll receive forgiveness".

The gospel is a free gift, it is not given to us because of anything we do. So gospel would sound something like this: "Your sins are forgiven."

To preach and encourage righteous living is 'law'. We need to hear law too. It's not wrong to preach the law.

What we ought not to do is mix law & gospel. We ought not to add law to the gospel. We ought not to turn the gospel into law. Or to make law sound like gospel.

Our righteous living is not 'gospel'. Our righteous living is 'sanctification'.

 

[Moses Medina]

You don't mix law and gospel, you are correct. You do preach law first, followed by the gospel. When you first speal law, stick with law. When you speak gospel which comes after law, stick with gospel.

The bible says to not live immoral lives, to love God and neighbor.

Christ has fullfilled the law, he has taken your sin, died and was raised. Through Chris there is eternal life and forgiveness...

These are bare skeleton examples but there you have it.

 

[VDMA]

"For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”
- 1 Corinthians 5:12-13

 

[MarkRohfrietsch]

The Law convicts, the Gospel redeems. Without the Law, we have no need of the Gospel. It is that simple.

 

[nothingwithoutgrace]

The Law convicts, the Gospel redeems. Without the Law, we have no need of the Gospel. It is that simple.

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