Dave Chanski

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The following is a lightly edited transcript of a sermon delivered on Monday afternoon, October 17th, 2011 during the annual Pastor’s Conference at Trinity Baptist Church in Montville, NJ. This is the second session and the preacher is Pastor Dave Chanski.

Usually we have preaching in this conference, but I don’t think there’s really any sense in which what I’m going to be doing is preaching. It’s definitely more of a theological lecture.

My topic is the threefold division of the law.

So if you were hoping for liveliness in preaching to be the thing that would help you to stay awake we do need to rely on more supernatural sources than that.

There really isn’t a lot of practical application. I mean, there is a whole lot of practical application, but not which I’m going to be drawing out. The many branches of the tree, if you will, the main one would be the abiding relevance of the moral law—that’s the main practical application for all of us and I will—perhaps the most helpful thing I’ll be able to do for you is provide for you (not today, but, God willing, before the week is over) a helpful bibliography for the subject of the threefold division of the law.

Of course, the threefold division of the law refers to the ceremonial, the civil and the moral law.

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Dave Chanski

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The following is a lightly edited transcript of a sermon delivered on Monday morning, October 15th, 2011 during the annual pastors’ conference at Trinity Baptist Church in Montville, NJ. This is the opening session and the preacher is Pastor Dave Chanski.

I will say something, as I begin here, about the theme of this year’s conference. It is the law of God. We have the quote from Psalm 119, “I love your law,” on the cover of our conference brochure, and this really began (this, what led to our having the whole theme of the conference on the law of God) with a suggestion that I made sometime last year, I believe, when we began to talk about what should we do for next year’s conference and I suggested that we at least have a message on the subject of antinomianism.

I said that because I think there’s a sense in which I see an Antinomian behind every bush. I kind of feel like John Gill. Spurgeon, I think, wrote about John Gill, that he saw an Arminian behind every bush, and I don’t think the Arminians were always there were Gill saw them, but I think I do see an Antinomian almost behind every bush.

It’s a subject that I’ve been concerned about over the years and so I brought this up for discussion with my fellow elders. We discussed it a little bit and then we continued the discussion when a couple of the brethren who are here with us from NJ also drove with us, three elders from Trinity, out to a pastor’s fraternal in Grand Rapids Michigan back in—I think it was March (either that or April) of this year.

And then while we were driving I had said to the men, “Well, why don’t we have further discussion about the subject for next year’s conference and we could even get the input of these other brethren.”

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