What you need to understand about the Law & the Gospel

What you need to understand about the Law and the Gospel:

[Today] Postmodern evangelicals do overemphasize the love of God and deliberately truncate what Scripture says about sin, righteousness, and judgment—to the point where most in the evangelical movement today seem to think the whole gospel message is that God is love, or that God loves you in particular. We have not preached the gospel at all if we don't deal with the problem of sin and call unbelievers to repentance (Acts 17:30).

We need to be clear that the Ten Commandments are not the gospel, or even part of the gospel. They are a prelude to the gospel—a tutor that points us toward Christ and the gospel (Gal. 3:24). 

The gospel itself is a message about the work of Christ to liberate us from the bondage of sin and the condemnation of the law. The heart of the gospel is the doctrine of justification by faith—not the Ten Commandments.

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Cr: Phil Johnson, from blog