Lecture 11
For Class (completed before class starts; 79 pages, ≈ 149 min.):
- Read RCT: Pt. 5 Living in CoG, Ch. 16: The Shape of Covenant Life with God, (pp. 415-441).
- Read L&G: Ch 10. The Believer’s Privilege of Being Dead to the Law as a Covenant of Works, with a Highly Important Consequence of It (pp. 173-224).
Lecture Topics (covered during class):
- RCT 16: The Shape of Covenant Life with God.
- Introduction.
- A Covenantal Reading.
- A Covenantal Ethic.
- The Abiding Rule for Life.
- The Proclamation of Life.
- L&G: Ch 10. The Believer’s Privilege of Being Dead to the Law as a Covenant of Works, with a Highly Important Consequence of It (pp. 173-224).
- Preliminary considerations.
- What is in the Moral Law that Believers are dead to as a Covenant of Works.
- What this includes in the Moral Law under the Covenant of Works.
- How do believers become dead to the Moral Law as a Covenant of Works.
- Important fruit of being dead to the Moral Law as a Covenant of Works.
- The necessity of a believer being dead to the Moral Law as a Covenant of Works.
- How being dead to the Moral Law as a Covenant of Works necessarily yields evangelical obedience.
- Reflections.