This and the previous post/sermon post are golden. Two things that we (me) continually kick against in preaching or hearing preaching is not just the abuse, failure or covering up of the Gospel (which is HUGE), but how the Law is to be used. When we don’t think we need to here the scandal again, the Gospel, the use of the Law always changes.

“Preaching the Law does not occur by TALKING ABOUT the Law. It occurs by EXECUTING the Law”, and, “Proper preaching of the Law needs to EXECUTE the hammer of the Law upon the lives of the hearers to DEMONSTRATE OUR CONTINUAL NEED for a Savior.”

When the Gospel is seen as not continually needed the “law” becomes inevitably “talked about” because it’s about pushing one to “do it”. We use to here in our old church circles of “conviction” after a sermon, “boy I was convicted after X said….” was always about “what I need to get correct or to doing”. But I told my wife, “Real conviction comes about when the Law really kills you and you find yourself devoid of ability to do and you find yourself despaired of yourself so that only the Cross will do, not ‘I’ll try harder’.”

Good stuff!

Yours truly,

Larry KY