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Outline 
 T HE L AW OF C HRIST • The Law Written on Stone • The Law Given by Christ • The Law Written on Hearts • The Law and the Table

The Law Written on Stone 
 Exodus 20:1-21

The Law Written on Stone “The words Eloeha, ‘your God,’ is so sweet, that we can never suck all the honey out of it . ‘I am your God,’ not only by creation, but by election . ” Thomas Watson

The Law Written on Stone This is important to know because it tells us that the gospel precedes law .

The Law Written on Stone Uniqueness of the Ten Commandments • The only law written by God • The only law written on stone • The only law placed in the ark of the covenant

The Law Given by Christ “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them . For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished . ” ( Matthew 5:17 – 18 , ESV )

The Law Given by Christ • Jesus fulfilled the prophecies • Jesus fulfilled the ceremonial law • Jesus fulfilled the moral law

The Law Given by Christ “And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind . This is the great and first commandment . And a second is like it : You shall love your neighbor as yourself . On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets . ’” ( Matthew 22:37 – 40 , ESV )

The Law Given by Christ All the commands of Scripture have ... ~ love as their motive ~ love as their means ~ love as their end

First Table 
 LOVING GOD C 1 — No other gods L 1 — Submissive Love 
 before God C 2 — Do not worship L 2 — Devoted Love 
 idols L 3 — Reverent Love 
 C 3 — Do not use God’s name in vain L 4 — Reflective Love C 4 — Remember the Sabbath

Second Table 
 LOVING OTHERS L 5 — Honoring Love 
 C 5 — Honor your father and mother L 6 — Respectful Love C 6 — Do not murder C 7 — Do not commit L 7 — Faithful Love 
 adultery L 8 — Productive Love C 8 — Do not steal L 9 — Edifying Love 
 C 9 — Do not bear false witness L 10 — Contented Love C 10 — Do not covet

The Law Given by Christ Love fulfills the law, it does not replace it . • “First, love is what the law commands, and the commands are what love fulfills . ” • “Second, love requires direction and principles of operation . Love is motivation, but it is not self - interpreting direction . ” Sinclair Ferguson

The Law Given by Christ Christ freed us from the condemnation of the law, not the obligation of the law .

The Law Written on Hearts The law drives the sinner and the saint 
 to Christ their Savior .

The Law Written on Hearts “[unbelievers] discover to them how far short they come doing that which the law requireth, that so they may not take up their rest in themselves, but hasten to out of themselves to Jesus Christ … ” Edward Fisher

The Law Written on Hearts “ … and that believers, by beholding their own imperfections, would take occasion to humble themselves, and cleave the more close unto him [Christ] by faith . ” Edward Fisher

The Law Written on Hearts Hebrews 10:14 – 18