I have sought to argue that the gospel of moralism is really no gospel at all – it is simply not good news! The legal hearts of man more readily assume a need to perform certain deeds and tasks before God than to live freely in the overflow of His grace. In other words, it’s far easier to understand that we should do something as opposed to relying on the fact that, in Jesus, everything has already been done. This, of course, is no new problem – it’s as old as the Judaizers. But, perhaps what’s most dangerous about moralism is what is so often the case in false teaching, namely that a little bit of truth is mixed with error, thus making it sound correct.
Certainly if one has listened to much evangelical preaching in the west, they have heard a (un)healthy dose of moralism. Now I am no antinomian – I love the Law of God (cf. Psalm 119:97). But the Law of God (and in moralism, it’s often mixed with the laws of man) understood apart from the gospel of God is devastatingly crippling and offers no sure foundation. Simply stated, moralism gets the cart before the horse when it comes to justification and sanctification. Keep Reading>>>
Certainly if one has listened to much evangelical preaching in the west, they have heard a (un)healthy dose of moralism. Now I am no antinomian – I love the Law of God (cf. Psalm 119:97). But the Law of God (and in moralism, it’s often mixed with the laws of man) understood apart from the gospel of God is devastatingly crippling and offers no sure foundation. Simply stated, moralism gets the cart before the horse when it comes to justification and sanctification. Keep Reading>>>
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