Sublime

This, then, is the true knowledge of Christ, if we receive him as he is offered by the Father: namely, clothed with his gospel.

1. For the preacher: “How do I preach Christ himself?” and 2) For the hearer: “How do I get into Christ?”22

We need to remember the apostolic injunction that the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome.

When (in Romans 6:14) Paul affirms that we are not “under law,” he is not denying that the law continues to be relevant. He had been accused of precisely this.19 But already (in Romans 3:31) he had stressed that rather than “overthrow” the law, the gospel functions to “uphold” it. After all, “we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully,”

When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your love, O LORD, supported me. When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought joy to my soul. (Ps. 94:18–19 NIV)

Grasp this, and we come to see that Paul does not deny that there is divine glory in the law.

that same faith-union leads to the requirements of the law being fulfilled in you through the Spirit.