William Graham Tullian Tchividjian (pronounced cha-vi-jin) is the
Senior Pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale,
Florida. A Florida native, he is a visiting professor of theology at
Reformed Theological Seminary and a grandson of Billy and Ruth Graham.
Tullian was the founding pastor of the former New City Church which
merged with Coral Ridge in April of 2009. A graduate of Columbia
International University (philosophy) and Reformed Theological Seminary
in Orlando (M.Div.), Tullian is the author of The Kingdom of God: A Primer on the Christian Life (Banner of Truth), Do I Know God? Finding Certainty in Life’s Most Important Relationship, Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different (Multnomah), Surprised by Grace: God’s Relentless Pursuit of Rebels (Crossway) and Jesus + Nothing = Everything (Crossway).
It wasn’t until I went to bed last night that I went onto the T4A
website and saw that I had an assigned topic, Surprised by Adoption. I’m
going to be talking about a thick topic, the Law and the Gospel. And
I’ll explain what that means and why that’s important. Let me read
through Romans 7:7-8:4
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means!
Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I
would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You
shall not covet.” But sin, seizing an opportunity through the
commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from
the law, sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the law, but when
the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment
that promised life proved to be death to me. For sin, seizing an
opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed
me. So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and
good. Keep Reading>>>
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