Danger! Legalism: The Whole Christ with Sinclair Ferguson 

This message is from Dr. Ferguson’s 12-part teaching series The Whole Christ. Watch the entire series: www.ligonier.org/learn/series/whole-christ

I am so thankful for your message this morning.

Great lesson and book “The Whole Christ” really helps connect so many doctrinal points in practical ways, getting us to know Jesus better.

Enjoy the freedom we have in Christ through faith in Him

Wow, thank you and praise God for this message.

Very good, Amen🙏

Such wonderful insights! Thank you so much, Dr. Ferguson.

"For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another." Galatians 5:13✝️

This is mind blowing. It’s incredible the kind of truths that men like Sinclair can continue to extrapolate out of the stories we know so well. I wouldn’t have figured this out if all I did was compare the story of the prodigal son to genesis for the rest of my life!

The serpent just wants to destroy relationships

Legalism is trying to earn salvation, or contribute to your salvation, by keeping God’s law. We “try” to emulate the attributes of God - when we don’t emulate the attributes of God we sin. When we sin we ask for forgiveness and repent of that sin and we move on.

Legalism says, “I have to...”. The newborn believer in grace says, “ I want to...”.

Excellent Study . I had to rewind a few times to really grasp the concept and reflect where I am being a legalistic in my relationship to Yahweh

I heard this fantastic sermon many years ago by Dr Ferguson.

Thank you for this message! I’ve read the book by Ferguson and devoured it in a hunger pang. This brings to life what he wrote and prompts another round of thinking in my head and alertness in my daily walk. The subject matter is so elusive and hidden in every day conducts that an easy misstep could be made when one is not mindful even when one is willing to learn. Perhaps I just caught myself here that it is easy to forget: that it is not so much about being mindful of the steps than the whole Person of God. And to build a relationship with Him, rather than accolades of achievement in do’s and don’t’s. Yet, Ferguson was able to articulate and explain in ways that bridge the abstract and the application in normal daily activities and interaction. I am truly grateful for the teaching that brings us closer to the whole Christ. May God prosper the work of your hands and bless those who hear and take heed.

I always thought that legalism was merely trying to earn your way to heaven by keeping the law (which we can’t do), thus denying the gospel, the cross and the grace of God.

Thank you so much for this message. 🥰🙋‍♀️

NO ONE IS GONNA ESCAPE THE JUDGMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST,……………AMEN

I teach total obedience to Him who is the total Truth of God , I am the only Way to God the only Truth of God the only Life of God no one comes to God the Father but through Me, and He said All power is given unto Me, go and make disciples of Me Baptising them in the name singular, of the Father of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Teaching them to comply with every command I have given to you , so He does teach His Apostles to teach, and He teaches that earthly Jerusalem with its earthly Priesthood will pass away , and we Christians will no longer worship there in John chapter 4v19-24

Really enjoyed this sermon. Thanks for the great teaching.

Thank-you for this message! In times like these, I find myself agonizing over the residue of sin that I can't control, and I don't want to, even, approach anything that looks like taking license.

There was a difference between the trees not named and the one named, in the one of knowledge of good and evil, there was a poison in that tree:evil, a big difference!

Law to you! (Or, wait, no.) Grace to you!

[Leibniz's contingency argument for God, clarified]: Ten whole, rational numbers 0-9 and their geometric counterparts 0D-9D. 0 and it's geometric counterpart 0D are: 1) whole 2) rational 3) not-natural 4) necessary 1-9 and their geometric counterparts 1D-9D are: 1) whole 2) rational 3) natural 4) contingent Newton says since 0 and 0D are "not-natural" ✅ then they are also "not-necessary" 🚫. Newton also says since 1-9 and 1D-9D are "natural" ✅ then they are also "necessary" 🚫. This is called "conflating" and is repeated throughout Newton's Calculus/Physics/Geometry/Logic. con·flate verb combine (two or more texts, ideas, etc.) into one. Leibniz does not make these fundamental mistakes. Leibniz's "Monadology" 📚 is zero and it's geometric counterpart zero-dimensional space. 0D Monad (SNF) 1D Line (WNF) 2D Plane (EMF) 3D Volume (GF) We should all be learning Leibniz's Calculus/Physics/Geometry/Logic. Fibonacci sequence starts with 0 for a reason. The Fibonacci triangle is 0, 1, 2 (Not 1, 2, 3). Newton's 1D-4D "natural ✅ = necessary 🚫" universe is a contradiction. Natural does not mean necessary. Similar, yet different. Not-natural just means no spatial extension; zero size; exact location only. Necessary. Newtonian nonsense will never provide a Theory of Everything. Leibniz's Law of Sufficient Reason should be required reading 📚.....

Most excellent sermon🙌🏾👆🏾🙏🏾

Thank God for the law or else we wouldn't know that we are all sinful to the core and need saving and just as the law does its job of exposing us for who we are, so does the grace of God, but in Christ where we are new creations, even sons of God, not sinful but righteous to the core. 😇

Work without love is.legalism

Man man man You can't live by the law but seek to place the law on others Who the SON sets free is FREE INDEED

So I understand the sermon to mean in practical application, that if you demand someone obey God in order to be righteous, but don't give them the part where we can't be righteous, except he gives it to us by Faith through Grace, that is legalism.

Totally off topic but the view out the side window changes: 1:40 and 14:36 and I don’t think it’s just the angle. I just thought that was odd LOL

Why is everyone in this class over 60? Is it a church class for senior citizens?

God new that touching makes the desire of the item more pronounced, more tempting just as when we go shopping and we can pick up the thing, the touch, the smell , the sensitory feel makes it more tempting, that is why the Lord wanted to protect them with that order: “do not touch”.

Amen!. 🔩.

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He explained this beautifully. Amen and Amen

The Law is the strength of sin so emphasizing obedience to it does not lead to right living. Only beholding the glory of the Lord transforms us into His image. As He is, so are we in this world. The Law makes faith void.

Please Pray For me everyone I appreciate it

This is profound, thank you

Really good insights, praise God.

If only many magistrates understood Majesty of God's they're called to be servants as the First family's created looking up Fruity plums if Tree of life seemed barren that Mankind needed as imbibing freshly be Familialy born again from Eden through Abrahamic Promissory and Melodic notes until Redeeming Grace's crossed sins out if not Origins, Means as the Ends all Precasted in Characters & Storylines never slighted for any Trinity worship of Nature's, the Laws else Manhood instead bastardly bereft of Heavenly Father as Big Brotherly Beatitudes?!

Learned so much - Thank you!

So good.

i am trying to convince my christian girlfriend to get an abortion. can you please send me verses that prove she is under grace and not law so i can set her mind at ease about terminating the pregnancy. thanks for your help. how do i convince her that she is under grace and this is not a salvation issue. the legalistic christians at our church are trying to guilt trip her into not getting an abortion. I keep telling her that jesus died to pay her debt in full and how she will be justified before god by what jesus did. how do i get thru to her? any help? please i hare this legalism. soon she will want to keep Sabbath!

Is it legalistic to say that watching tv is a sin and you shouldn’t watch it?

Beautiful message !

Forget all about all religious men, who claim to speak for God, even if these men are Moses the mediator of the Old Covenant, or Elijah , the One who was to come and prepare the way for the seed of David and the seed of Abraham, who is God manifest in the Flesh Saviour, but only listen to the One that God the Father said was His beloved Son who is His eternal delight, at His Baptism, and on the Mt of Transfiguration, He repeats this and says, This is my beloved Son in whom I am completely delighted, Hear Him, and all those who add to His words, or take from them will not eat of the tree of life, in Revelation chapter 22v19, so do not let sola scriptura, blind you to words of the author of Faith who is Eternal Life and God's Salvation who conceded that the Religious rulers did search the scriptures but they missed Him in them, in John chapter 5v39