"Completed by the Spirit: New Covenant Sanctification in Paul"
By: Jose Francis Martinez
The position this article takes is clearly anti-law, but it claims not to endorse wicked living among Christians (licentiousness).
Mr. Trefzger, the writer explicitly opposed the classic Reformed view of the third use of the Law, as a standard and guide to right living. He does even not want to call the imperatives and exhortations in Paul’s letters as law or as of a category of law. He writes, “while Paul gives us imperatives, commands and exhortations, they are not themselves laws and are not given as laws or in the category of law” (pgs 4 & 5).
Moreover, this writer does not also believe in the second use of the Law when it comes to believers (the Law as a mirror). It appears that he only believes in the second use of the Law when it comes to unbelievers but not believers. This is clear from the fact that he ridicules Joel Beeke’s comments about the convicting use of the law in the sanctification of believers (which the article mistakenly refers as the third use of the law). For the writer, the Law cannot even serve as a mirror to convict believers of wrongdoing and prevent the resurgence of self-righteousness. (See pgs 11-12).
So the issue here is not just the perpetuity of the 10 commandments but it is an aversion against law, any law. This is full blown antinomianism.
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