"I Delight In The Law Of God"
Romans 7:22
Don Fortner
Because we believe that salvation is in Christ alone, altogether a work of God's pure, free, sovereign, immutable grace, and because we refuse to be brought under the irksome yoke of bondage to the law, we are often accused of being antinomians, people who are against, or opposed to, the law of God. The charge is totally slanderous and without foundation. God's people are not rebel's to God's law. We love the law of God. It is holy, just and good. We simply acknowledge our sinfulness and complete inability to obey the law. Trusting Christ as our Lord and Savior, we do not live by the rule of the law. We live by the rule of grace and love. But no believer lives in rebellion to the law of God.
l. We are saved by grace alone, without
the works of the law (Rom.
2. Our standing and acceptance with God is
entirely in Christ. We are "accepted in the Beloved". God accepts us
in Christ alone, only for his sake and only through the merits of his
righteousness and shed blood. Our salvation is altogether in Christ our
Substitute. He performed the work. Neither our righteousness nor our sins in
any way affect our relationship with God (Rom.
3. Every believer is completely free from the
law of God in Christ (Rom.
4. But you can be sure of this fact: Any professed believer who lives in wilful violation of and rebellion to the moral law of God is lost. His profession of faith is a false profession, nothing more than a pretentious show of hypocrisy. All true believers "delight in the law of God after the inward man."