Dr. Sinclair Ferguson

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The following is a transcript of a sermon delivered on Wednesday afternoon, October 19th, 2011 during the annual pastor’s conference at Trinity Baptist Church in Montville, NJ. The preacher is Dr. Sinclair Ferguson, professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary and this is the sixth session in the conference.

I know that Philip Ross’s book was mentioned yesterday—is it Written by the Finger of God? It’s a wonderful book, I do commend it to you, but I just had a message this morning saying that Philip’s mother has gone to be with the Lord this morning and I’ve been thinking about her because she exhibited everything that we were thinking about in the last hour of the joy and liberty of a believer who loves the law.

Well, you know a plane’s cruising altitude has a cruising altitude at 33,000 feet and the pilot dives to 3,000 feet, as perhaps you have to your alarm experienced, you always feel it’s very difficult to get back up to cruising altitude again and I have a friend who’s tradition is that at the end of the second point in the sermon everything stops and they sing a psalm and then they begin again, and although I admire him greatly, few things I could more admire him for than being able to get up to cruising altitude again after you’ve gone down to 3,000 feet as it were.

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Dr. Sinclair Ferguson

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The following is a transcript of a sermon delivered on Wednesday afternoon, October 19th, 2011 during the annual pastor’s conference at Trinity Baptist Church in Montville, NJ. The preacher is Dr. Sinclair Ferguson, professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary and this is the sixth session in the conference.

When the various themes were being apportioned in preparation for the conference, I think I received a list of the topics that the organizers wanted us to cover in our thinking together about this marvelous theme of the law of God, and discovering what one another of the brethren were doing, I thought what I would try and bring for these sessions this morning would be essentially two probes. The first, a probe of a biblical-theological nature into how it is that the Scriptures as a whole understand the law of God, and then in the second address, in many ways far less stimulating and interesting than the Scriptures themselves, to take a look at how it is that our Reformed or evangelical tradition has understood the law, and one or two of the issues that have obviously arisen in the history of the Christian church around the place of the law and the significance of the law, especially of course in the life of the Christian believer. So, neither of these studies is by any stretch of the imagination comprehensive in character. It will be full of holes. It’s simply an attempt to fill in some of the dots so that we can get the big picture and see how some of the more detailed areas that are being dealt with also in the conference fit into the large picture of how it is that God has given His law, why it is that God has given a law to His people, and how it is, therefore, that His people are able to say that we love His law, meditate on it day and night, and rejoice in it in every way.

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