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"The entire law is still applicable because the entire law reflects God’s unchanging character (compare Matt. 22:37-40). Nevertheless, the way in which we are to obey the law has changed signficantly due to the coming of Christ and changes in other historical circumstances. For example, the sacrificial laws still apply because God still demands an adequate sacrifice for our sins (Heb. 9:26; 10:12,26; 1 John 2:1-2). Nevertheless, we observe those laws today not by offering animals according to the Mosaic system, but by trusting Christ as our sufficient sacrifice (1 Cor. 5:7; Eph. 5:2; Heb. 9:26; 10:12; 1 John 2:1-2) — Christ’s one sacrifice for all time continues to satisfy the requirements of actual sacrifice. Similarly, just as Israel was to render civil obedience to laws pertaining to Israel’s theocracy, we are now to render obedience to Jesus the king, the ruler of our Christian theocracy. The principles of God’s character that the Old Testament laws reflected have not changed, but the ways in which we are to act in accordance with his character have changed. We must interpret all the Old Testament laws in light of changes that have taken place in the history of redemption (Christ has come), differences between our culture/society and that of the original audience, and personal differences between each of us as individuals. This is not to say that truth is relative, but rather that application of truth must take into account many things which are not made explicit in the law itself." Richard Pratt

To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.
~ John Calvin

“Under the law, in Adam, one is trapped in the cycle of sin and death, resentment and despair, self-righteousness and self-condemnation. Yet under grace, in Christ, one is not only justified apart from the law but is able for the first time to respond to that law of love that calls from the deepest recesses of our being as covenantally constituted creatures. It is not the law itself that changes, but our relation to it, and that makes all the difference.”
Michael Horton’s chapter “Obedience Is Better than Sacrifice” in the book The Law Is Not Of Faith: (334)

"The regenerate person loves the law, not as a savior, but because it perfectly reflects the heart of the Savior." -JWH

Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day." -Psalm 119:97

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The Law of Works, The Law of Faith and the Law of Christ Edward Fisher with Must-Read Footnotes by Thomas Bostonicon
A Primer on the Mosaic Law and the Christian Stephen Westerholmicon
Christ's Use of the Law to Promote Piety in the Christian Joel Beeke with comments from J.W. Hendryxicon
The Law Renders Us Inexcusable and Drives Us Into Despair John Calvinicon
Law: Civic, Ceremonial & Moral R. Alderson Responsibility of Christians to obey the Law and helpful to those who are struggling with the influence of the Antinomianismicon
Freedom from the Bondage of the Law (.pdf) John Calvinicon
The Spirituality of the Law John Calvinicon
The Saint And The Law Horatius Bonaricon
The Sanctity of the Moral Law John Murrayicon
The Believer's Principles Concerning the Law & the Gospel Ralph Erskineicon
The Moral Law a Rule of Obedience Samuel Boltonicon
True Christian Freedom Samuel Boltonicon
The Law and the Saint A.W. Pinkicon
God's Word and Obedience A.W. Pinkicon
What It Means to be "Dead to the Law" Ralph Erskine (1685-1752)icon
Complete Submission A.W. Pinkicon
The Law not Abrogated by Christ to Believers Ernest F. Kevanicon
The Moral Law and its Relation to Believers Ernest F. Kevanicon
Three Covenantal Enshrinements of the Moral Will of God Lee Ironsicon
The Moral Law and Its Relation to Believers Ernest Kevanicon
The Perpetuity of the Law; The Law Written on the Heart (.pdf) Charles Spurgeonicon
How Does God Enable Believers to Keep His Moral Law? Part 1 John Fonvilleicon
How Does God Enable Believers to Keep His Moral Law? Part 2 John Fonvilleicon
A New Locus of Authority Lee Ironsicon
Romans 2:13: Is Paul Coherent? Lee Irons (pdf) - Who are the "doers of the Law" and how will they by "justified"?icon
Keeping the Christian Sabbath David Smithicon
The Law of Moses and the Christian: A Compromise (.pdf) David Dorseyicon
For Jesus Sake Hywel R. Jonesicon
Natural Law and Biblical Law Paul Helmicon
The Law and the Laws: A Biblical Overview Bryan D. Estelle, Ph.D.icon
Human Nature and Law Terry Johnsonicon
The Moral Law Ernest F. Kevanicon
Not Under the Law but Under Grace (.pdf) Lee Ironsicon
Law, Gospel and the Believer J R Tallachicon
The Law in the Life of a Christian (4-part MP3 Series) Dr Peter Jensenicon
The Conversion Of The Man In Romans 7 (.pdf) Tom J. Nettles, Reformation & Revival 7.3 (Summer 1998): 177-184.icon
The Gospel Is for the Broken Rod Rosenbladticon
Applying the Old Testament Law Today J. Daniel Hays Bibliotheca Sacra 158: 629 (2001): 21-35.icon
The Third Use of Law John Warwick Montgomeryicon
Freedom from Justification by the Law! Obadiah Sedgwickicon
What Jesus Demands from the World (online.pdf book) John Pipericon
James and Martin Luther: The Jewish Law, Faith and Social Justice Ron Darticon
The Christian and the Law (.pdf) Gordon H. Clarkicon
Why the Law then? A Biblical Theology of Law in Galatians (.pdf) Chris Poteeticon
Calvin’s Third Use of the Law (.pdf) John P. Burgess: An Assessment of Reformed Explications of the Ten Commandmentsicon
The Law of Liberty Ligoniericon
Must We Obey the Law? Stewart E. Lauericon
Two Ways of Denying God’s Law and One Way of Affirming It Michael S. Hortonicon
The Grace of The Law Tim Kellericon
Old Testament Law and The Charge of Inconsistency Dr. Timothy Keller - A note to be read by columnists, pundits, or journalists icon
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