Joe<br>Thanks for the great answer. It is so comforting in a society with so many laws, yet truly without law to God, to hear you say that these uses of the law are not contrary to the grace of the gospel, yet sweetly comply with it.<br>I am in a situation now in a PCA church that there is such an aversion to even the name "rule" among some of the members. <br><br>David said the he loved the law of God and in it he mediated day and night.<br><br>When a man truly hates God's laws he puts himself into another form of legalism, and from watching this lawlessness, I see that they are not truly free or happy, yet are in bondage to their own laws of doing whatever they want to do. Yet it is such sweet knowledge to know that it is the love of Christ that constrains us to do those things that are pleasing in His sight.<br><br>Linda