I came from a traditional Baptist background. While searching, I have attended Catholic, Methodist, Lutheran, Brethran, Pentacostal and Charismatic churches. I have served as song leader, youth leader, usher, baptism class teacher, served in healing and deliverance and led cell groups. I have avoided terming myself antinomian, as its mostly used derogatively. However, thats exactly what I believe in, purely in Grace without works. This is my blog, and my justification for my beliefs
Sunday, June 5, 2011
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Charles H. Spurgeon in a sermon preached on March 16, 1856, he said:
‘I am rather fond of being called an Antinomian, for this reason, that the term is generally applied to those who hold truth very firmly and will not let it go. But I should not be fond of being an Antinomian. We are not against the law of God. We believe it is no longer binding on us as the covenant of salvation; but we have nothing to say against the law of God. “The law is holy; We ate carnal, sold under sin.” None shall charge us truthfully with being Antinomians. We do quarrel with Antinomians; but as for some poor souls who are so inconsistent as to say the law is not binding, and yet try to keep it with all their might, we do not quarrel with them. They will never do much mischief. But we think they might learn to distinguish between the law as a covenant of life and a direction after we have obtained life.‘ (New Park Street Pulpit, Vol. II (1856), p.132).
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