9. Reformed Baptist Distinctives: Commandment Keeping

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10. Reformed Baptist Distinctives: Cessationism

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Now, we're not saying that you have to keep the commands in order to be saved. The Reformation was founded on grace and not upon law, yet the law of God was not repudiated by the

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Reformers. John Calvin, for example, wrote what has become known as the three -fold use of the law in order to show the importance of the law in the

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Christian's life. So, the moral law or the Ten Commandments that God reveals in Scripture is always binding upon us and includes the

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Sabbath, the Lord's Day. So when we look at the moral law, we recognize that that was a creation ordinance and it includes the

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Sabbath day. That's why we're here on Sunday, right? That's why we encourage people to come out on Sunday.

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If you're avoiding the Lord's Day, when are you going to eat the Lord's Supper? On the Lord's Day, right?

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Our redemption, remember, is from the curse of the law, not from our duty to obey it.

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So we are redeemed from its consequences and its penalties, but that doesn't mean the law goes away.

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Oh, we don't need to keep the law anymore. Wrong. We are justified, not because of our obedience to the law, but in order that we may become obedient to God's law.

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To love Christ is to keep His commandments. First John, John says, sin is lawlessness, right?

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Do you think people still sin today? Yes, that's called lawlessness. So the people who are telling you that there is no more law, you could tell them, great, that's lawlessness.

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That's sin. The law is in play in the sense that that is our standard.

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Our standard doesn't go away. The consequence for not hitting this standard goes away. Praise God, because nobody can fulfill it.

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Reformed theology is not anti -Nomian, anti -no more, no most law.

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We are not no law people, okay? The law serves as a restraint, a rule, and a reflection.