Just A Reminder
"It [the Law] doesn't serve for the construction of the new man but rather for the destruction of the old man. It must ceaselessly tell us that we lie when we say that we have no sin. It unceasingly exercises the principle function (usus proprius) because it always accuses (semper accusans) and because it can't ever be anything else. To be driven by the spirit means not only by Christ but also to be driven unto him because we are unceasingly troubled by the accusations of the Law. The proper function (usus proprius) of the Law is, in the language of the old domaticians, the accusatory funtion (usus elenchticus) and therefore it is always the paedagogical function (usus paedagogicus) that drives us to Christ."- Werner Elert "Gesetz und Evangelium"
posted by David Browder at 10/22/2008 10:59:00 AM
1 Comments:
Perfect quote! God's law is always a good thing, because it always dismantles our self-righteousness and keeps us near the Cross. The world's version of law, however, is a always a bad thing, because the world's law always says we can do it if we just keep at it, and this always drives us away from the Cross.
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