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Voddie Baucham - The Law is not the Gospel · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: The Gospel is not just the two Great commandments. The
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  Speaker 1: Gospel is not just the two great commandments. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what's popular in our day. You just boil it down
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  Speaker 1: to love God, love people. Listen to Carson's word on this.
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  Speaker 1: Other voices identify the Gospel with the first and second commandments,
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  Speaker 1: the commandments to love God with heart, soul, and mind,
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  Speaker 1: and strength, and our neighbor as ourself. These commandments are
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  Speaker 1: so central that Jesus himself insists that all the prophets
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  Speaker 1: and the law hang on them. But most emphatically, they
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  Speaker 1: are not the gospel. Love God, love people. It's not
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  Speaker 1: the gospel. In fact, here's the irony. That phrase, love God,
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  Speaker 1: love people is actually a summary of the law. It's
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  Speaker 1: the opposite of the gospel. Listen to what Paul says
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  Speaker 1: about that in Romans chapter thirteen, verses eight through ten. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: no one anything except to love each other. For the
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  Speaker 1: one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the
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  Speaker 1: commandments you shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder,
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  Speaker 1: you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and any
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  Speaker 1: other commandment are summed up in this word. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: notice he's talking about the second Table of the Law,
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  Speaker 1: the horizontal commandments summed up in this way or in
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  Speaker 1: this word. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Love
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  Speaker 1: does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore, love is the
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  Speaker 1: fulfilling of the Law. We use that phrase as though
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  Speaker 1: we've unlocked a magic key to the Gospel. And the
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  Speaker 1: irony is we have run right back to the law
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  Speaker 1: like a dog running to its vomit. And it sounds
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  Speaker 1: so good, and it's ubiquitous. Do a search sometime for love, God,
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  Speaker 1: love people and church. You'll find thousands of churches like
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  Speaker 1: south Side Christian Church, Love God, love people. But then
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  Speaker 1: you find others who get creative with Itmorrow Baptist Church,
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  Speaker 1: Love God, Love People, Change the world. Anglewood Baptist Church
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  Speaker 1: Love God, Love People, Serve the world. Believers Church Love God,
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  Speaker 1: Love People, tell the world. Victory Baptist Church Love God,
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  Speaker 1: Love People, Reach the world. Or goff Gate Baptist Church
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  Speaker 1: Love God, Love People, serve the world. How about double
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  Speaker 1: heads Baptist Church Love God, Love People, serve both or
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  Speaker 1: the Rock Love God, Love people, Do something about it.
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  Speaker 1: East Side Christian Church Love God, Love People, Build relationships.
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  Speaker 1: Smith Wood Baptist Church, Love God, love people, make disciples,
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  Speaker 1: the gathering place, love God, love people, live life, praise city,
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  Speaker 1: church love God, love people, love life. How about destiny
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  Speaker 1: church love God, love people, love life, love our city.
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  Speaker 1: How about courageous church, love God, love people. Prove it
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  Speaker 1: North City, Church of Christ, love God, love people, be changed,
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  Speaker 1: keep the law, be changed, and finally experienced church safety, harbor,
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  Speaker 1: love God, love people. Period. It's ubiquitous. That is the
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  Speaker 1: catch phrase of our day, and it's a catchphrase that
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  Speaker 1: is used by people who intend to say, get away
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  Speaker 1: from all that law stuff, get away from all that legalism.
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  Speaker 1: Just love God and love people. And what they just
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  Speaker 1: said was get away from the law. Obey the law,
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  Speaker 1: because if you just obey the law, then you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about the law. Now, Am I saying
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  Speaker 1: that we don't love God and we don't love people.
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  Speaker 1: That is what the Gospel produces, not what the Gospel commands.
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  Speaker 1: The Gospel produces that in the life of the believer,
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  Speaker 1: and it's evidence that we love God, that we've been
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  Speaker 1: born again, we love God, and we love others because
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  Speaker 1: of what Christ has done in us. It's because of
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  Speaker 1: the work of the Gospel in our lives. It is
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  Speaker 1: not a substitute for the gospel that is blasphemous. It's blasphemous.
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  Speaker 1: And again, all of these churches may communicate that clearly somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: generally not on their websites. I looked