Law and Giver

The basic structure at Sinai echoed the structure of life in Eden: God is gracious; he acts sovereignly and gives graciously to his people. In response to his grace his people desire to please him, obey him, and never grieve him. The law, therefore, and obedience to it must never be abstracted from the character of the Person who gave it. What was true in the old covenant of Sinai is just as true in the new covenant in Christ.

 

Sinclair Ferguson, The Whole Christ: Legalism, Antinomianism, and Gospel Assurance: Why the Marrow Controversy Still Matters (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2016), pgs. 118-119.