72 - 1 Tim. 6:12 - “good fight of faith”
72- “It is too often to thought that, since the law condemned us and cannot save us, grace, and faith release us from any obligation to God‘s law.”
72- “ God’s law defines my sin and thereby my need for the Savior.” Grace is nothing without law.”
73- In being saved, we desire to keep the law. Paul expects us to (Eph. 2:10). And the law is not burdensome for believers (1 John 5:3).
73- “ the law is established against the background of God‘s mercy toward his people” (the Exodus) “The first-hand experience of God‘s redemption is a strong motive for keeping the law (Deut. 7:10-11).”
79- normative, motivational, and consequential approaches to ethics. Bible includes all three.
81- Not wrong for Xians to be motivated by rewards for righteous living (cf. Christ’s words to Peter: given to you a hundredfold)
82- some talk of the Kingdom: “seek,” “pursue”
83- “Biblical law is a pathway to divine benefits” [lots of references on this page]
87- Summary of the whole book: “God’s law is authoritative for contemporary ethics.”
89- OT law affirmed in NT. Sin = transgression of law, so law must still be binding. Love is defined in terms of God’s law: Matt. 22:40, Rom. 13:10, 1 Jn. 5:2-3. Jesus and apostles both appeal to God’s law as the basis of their teaching.
CH 13 - NEW TESTAMENT MORAL JUDGMENTS ENDORSE THE LAW
118- “The law functions as a standard and a guide when we heed New Testament exhortations to attain the statue of Christ or demonstrate the fruit of the spirit.”
121- use of something (eg, a rule) assumes its validity
123- Moral application in NT cites or alludes to: Genesis, Proverbs, Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Habakkuk, and Zechariah, but most commonly, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
126- “to judge which was the greatest commandment in the entire Old Testament, Jesus did not go to the ten commandments at all, but chose rather two laws outside of the Decalogue: love God with all of your heart, and love your neighbor as yourself (Mark 12:28-31, from Deut. 6:4-5 and Lev. 19:18).
“Distilling the Old Testament's moral demand into these two particular extra-Decalogical laws was apparently already known and discussed in Jesus' day (Luke 10:25-28). It was a commonplace among the rabbis to distinguish between "heavy" and "light" commands in the Old Testament, the heavier laws being those from which moral commands could be deduced from others. Such rabbinic eforts can be traced to the Old Testament itself, where its precepts are summarized in a different number of principles by various writers: eleven by David (Ps. 15), six by Isaiah (Isa. 33:15), three by Micah (Micah 6:8), and one by Amos (Amos 5:4) and by Habakkuk (Hab.
2:4).”
127- “Our obligation to the weightier matters of the law does not cancel our obligation to the minor details.”
128- in Matthew 15 Christ appeals to the law that requires the death penalty for cursing one’s parents
128- “two or three witnesses” (Matt 18, John 8, 1 Tim 5) comes from Deut 17 and 19
128- Bahnsen says that Paul uses the requirement that unlike animals are not to be yoked together to argue against marrying an unbeliever, thus proving the law’s ongoing validity, but if the law no longer applies to oxen, it would appear that the law has changed somewhat
130 - Matthew 18 standard taken from Ex 23