I see Justin Taylor has republished Lee Irons’ Eulogical statements about the late Meredith Kline (here and here). For some reason I feel inspired to link to this great sermon by John Piper so, while we mourn the dead, we can also take a moment to be comforted by delighting in the law of God.
We Should Delight in God’s Law and Sing of Its Value
In conclusion, then, the points are these: first, the law is fulfilled in us when we love our neighbor as ourselves. Second, love is the outworking of genuine, saving faith. Third, therefore, the law did not teach us to try to produce meritorious works, but only taught us to trust the gracious God of the exodus and to live out the obedience of faith. Fourth, therefore, the Mosaic covenant is not fundamentally different from the Abrahamic and New Covenants, for we should obey the commandments of all three from the very same motive—not to win God’s favor, but because we already depend on his free grace and trust that his commands will lead to full and lasting joy. The final point, then, is that we should delight in God’s law, meditate on it day and night (Psalm 119:97), and sing of his value to all generations (Psalm 19:7–14).
Amen and amen.
Mark, I’m sad to see you make this rather tasteless post. It’s hard to believe you really mourn this brother when his passing into glory is just a chance for you to blog your disagreements.
You seem to have strangely selective sensitivity to opportunistic messages, if that is what I have done.
But as it stands, there is nothing tasteless or wrong in what I blogged. My disagreements with Kline are not even directly at issue (or I would have said something when I heard of his passing).