Presented by Providence Presbyterian Church Saturday morning (talk #3) Union with Christ and the believer's new identity I. The problem of the Pauline imperative/indicative. A. The controlling place of the resurrection as the motif of the Christian life. Paul's thesis: “Become in Christ what you are in Christ” B. Sanctification is a gift of God and task of believer. C. Backdrop: Imperative of Jewish past? Indicative inconsistent? D. The irreversibility and inseparability of the imperative and indicative. Indicative grounds the imperative. E. Solution and central thesis. Phil. 2: 12f. Paul not a moralist! Paul not Antinomian! II. The goal/pattern of sanctification A. Pattern #1. God himself is the pattern of this holiness. B. Pattern #2. The preceptive will of God [or Law of God] as the pattern C. Pattern #3. Christ Himself as the pattern III. Suffering and the Christian life A. The question: what is distinguishing quality of resurrection life? B. Paul's view of suffering and the Christian life. 2 Cor. 4:7-12; Phil. 3:7ff. C. Peter's view of suffering and the Christian life IV. Preliminary conclusions: the imperative and indicative A. Foundation is in the uniqueness of Christ's death B. Angle is missiological C. Ecclesiastical impact -Q & A
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Dr. Richard Gamble is senior pastor of the College Hill Reformed Presbyterian Church and Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is internationally recognized as a Calvin scholar and has been the author, editor or...
