12 Brief Notes on the @RollingStone article. 1. I’ve cut my own hair since I was a junior in high school. Thanks for the compliment. Also, my jackets are not tailored. Maybe someday. 2. Unsurprisingly, you missed the distinction I made on “firewalls” between the church and

Happy Independence Day! . May God bless America with the grace of repentance and its fruits. May our churches proclaim the full counsel of the Scriptures for God’s glory. May our capitols humbly serve under Christ’s authority for justice and peace. May our nation be glad

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9 / The Remedy. Authority will always be exercised, either righteously or wickedly. The crisis is not power itself, but power wielded with unrighteously, coercing citizens into submission to self-exalting rulers who spurn God’s law and defy Christ’s crown. External.

8 / We get the government we deserve. Public life follows the law of sowing and reaping. Israel longed for a king “like the nations,” and God gave them Saul--with taxation, conscription, grief, and an inversion of God’s created order (1 Sam 8:4–18). When they melted their.

7 / Law-Makers or Law-Appliers?. Civil authority exists to minister (διάκονος, Rom 13:1, 4) God’s justice, not to manufacture a rival code. Yet fallen rulers invent ordinances that clash with the perfect law of the Lord, erecting sins God never named and excusing sins He.

6 / Law always orients. Law always orients a people to the god of the system. “Those who make idols become like them” (Ps 115:8). Exalt self-sovereignty, and statutes catechize citizens in self-worship. Exalt Christ, and the law schools them in allegiance to the King of kings.

5 / Mirror, muzzle, map. Law is never neutral. Together the law convicts the sinner, restraints the lawless, and conforms the saint (2 Tim 3:16–17). Three mercies in the hand of Christ. But that’s not all….

4 / Map - Guide for the Regenerate. When the Spirit grants new birth, the law that once condemned becomes a lamp to the feet (Ps 119:105). “If you love Me, keep My commandments” (John 14:15). The law now maps the “good works prepared beforehand” (Eph 2:10), forging character.

3 / Muzzle - Civil Use. Picture a bridle on a spirited stallion. Righteous statutes, backed by just and proportional penalties, restrain open wickedness (Rom 13:3–4; 1 Tim 1:9–10). Even rebels feel the terror of just law. God’s law preserves order, shields the weak, and.

2 / Mirror - Pedagogical Use. Hold the law before your face and behold the blazing holiness of God. It exposes every stain of sin (Rom 3:20; 7:7–10) and serves as a tutor (paidagōgos, Gal 3:24) driving sinners to Christ. The mirror condemns the conscience, but also compels the.

🧵The Lawful Uses of the Law. “The law is good, if one uses it lawfully” (1 Tim 1:8). Christ did not abolish the Moral Law (Matt 5:17-19). He wields it as His royal instrument to expose sin, restrain public evil, and chart the saint’s course. The three uses of the law. ht:.

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