EPISODE · Oct 18, 2023 · 33 MIN
"The LORD and the Law" (Deuteronomy 6:1-9, 20-25)
from RUF at UNCW · host Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW
Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at the big storyline of redemption that is laid out for us in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In this week's message from Deuteronomy, we continue with the story of Moses and the children of Israel. God has brought them out of Egypt, to Himself. But because his plans are that they would flourish, and show his beauty and glory and power to the entire world, God isn’t content with just rescuing them from the slavery on their outsides. He wants to rescue them from the slavery on their insides. In the beginning of the Exodus, God gets his people out of Egypt, now he has to get Egypt out of his people— and for the rest of the books of the Torah— Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, God painstakingly and lovingly does just that. And he does it, by giving his people his rules— the law. God gives us the rules of his law to train us to live well as his covenant people. We we see the law correctly through the lens of God’s grace, we will see that the law of God has never been a system of earning where unsaved people work to earn favor, but a pattern of life given by the Redeemer to the already redeemed so that they might know how to live for his good pleasure. "The law was never intended to be a means of earning salvation. Rather, God gave it to guide Israel in living in a way that would please their Redeemer. Far from setting aside the promise of grace, the law was given to those who had been saved by grace in order to show them how to live in that grace ... the call of the law is to translate God's grace into action. The law is the divinely intended means by which the covenant is nourished and maintained. The law shows the people of God the conduct fitting for God's covenant community. In obeying the law, Israel actualizes in human life its covenant relationship with Yahweh. Israel was to look upon the law as a gift, not a burden. The law was a delight because it aided the covenant relationship. The relationship was not a matter of external or mechanical rules but a personal relationship with a God who is not only the sovereign King of the universe but also a father who has promised himself to his covenant people. Thus when an Israelite son asked his father what the law meant, the answer was the story of the exodus and the fulfillment of covenant promise, "the old, old story of God's saving love and deliverance. The very meaning of the law was to be found in the Gospel." -Michael Williams “Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good—above all, that we are better than someone else—I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil."— C.S. Lewis
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Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at the big storyline of redemption that is laid out for us in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In this week's message from Deuteronomy, we continue with the story of Moses and the children of Israel. God has brought them out of Egypt, to Himself. But because his plans are that they would flourish, and show his beauty and glory and power to the entire world, God isn’t content with just rescuing them from the slavery on their outsides. He wants to rescue them from the slavery on their insides. In the beginning of the Exodus, God gets his people out of Egypt, now he has to get Egypt out of his people— and for the rest of the books of the Torah— Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, God painstakingly and lovingly does just that. And he does it, by giving his people his rules— the law. God gives us the rules of his law to train us to live well as his covenant people. We we see the law correctly through the lens of God’s grace, we will see that the law of God has never been a system of earning where unsaved people work to earn favor, but a pattern of life given by the Redeemer to the already redeemed so that they might know how to live for his good pleasure. "The law was never intended to be a means of earning salvation. Rather, God gave it to guide Israel in living in a way that would please their Redeemer. Far from setting aside the promise of grace, the law was given to those who had been saved by grace in order to show them how to live in that grace ... the call of the law is to translate God's grace into action. The law is the divinely intended means by which the covenant is nourished and maintained. The law shows the people of God the conduct fitting for God's covenant community. In obeying the law, Israel actualizes in human life its covenant relationship with Yahweh. Israel was to look upon the law as a gift, not a burden. The law was a delight because it aided the covenant relationship. The relationship was not a matter of external or mechanical rules but a personal relationship with a God who is not only the sovereign King of the universe but also a father who has promised himself to his covenant people. Thus when an Israelite son asked his father what the law meant, the answer was the story of the exodus and the fulfillment of covenant promise, "the old, old story of God's saving love and deliverance. The very meaning of the law was to be found in the Gospel." -Michael Williams “Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good—above all, that we are better than someone else—I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil."— C.S. Lewis
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