Wait, What Are We Singing? – Week 4
What does it mean to rightly distinguish Law and Gospel? In this final class of the session, Dr. Evatt looks at Matthias Loy’s paired hymns “The Law of God Is Good and Wise” and “The Gospel Shows the Father’s Grace,” showing that God’s law is not bad in itself but a good gift that the Psalms delight in. He walks through the three kinds of Old Testament law (moral, ceremonial, and civil) and the three uses of the law: as a mirror, a curb, and a guide. He also warns against two opposite errors: Pelagianism, which says we can earn salvation by keeping the law, and Antinomianism, which says Christians no longer need the law at all. The class closes with the hymn “Lord, Thee I Love with All My Heart,” a picture of the Gospel freeing us to live out God’s law in joyful service to our neighbor.
