From some research I did a while ago on the close relationship between prophecy and law:
While Judaism sometimes distinguished the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings, S. Chapman has shown that it is unhelpful to make a sharp distinction between prophecy and law. The narrative of Exodus 3-4 is a prophetic call narrative, the first in the Bible and foundational to the Israelite conception of prophecy – a message from God in the mouth of a human. The classic messenger formula (‘Thus says Yahweh’) is prominent in Exodus while the commission formula (‘Speak to X and say to them’) is very common in Leviticus and Numbers. The closing words of the five books of the Law (Dt. 34:9-12) give the Pentateuch a particularly charismatic and prophetic stamp. Isaiah seems to equate his vision (Isa. 1:1) with torah (Isa. 8:16) and a very close connection is drawn between the Law and the words of the prophets (2 Kings 17:13; Dan. 9:10; Zech. 7:8-12). In the New Testament the reception of the Law is depicted in apocalyptic terms as mediated by angels (Acts 7:53; Heb. 2:2). Torah can be referred to as ‘living oracles’ (Acts 7:38) and a citation from the prophet Isaiah introduced with ‘in the law it is written’ (1 Cor. 14:21). Furthermore, both ‘the Law’ and ‘the Prophets’ are said to speak prophetically of Jesus and the New Covenant age (e.g. Mt. 5:17; Lk. 24:27,44; Jn. 1:45; 5:46; Acts 26:22; 28:23).
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True. I was a member of a Christian Union group at university who based everything on this verse in the manner of your opening paragraph. We would have been far better off to think about what it really meant, and resolved to stick to the Word of God!
Having said that, holding closely to the Word of God does give more of the drive and vision in the other sense. It’s when I’m most holding on to sin that I have least drive in my ministry, and when I’m most taken with the glory of Christ in the gospel that I’m most driven and envisioned with clearer purpose, on the whole.
Thanks Mark – great point. Let’s think some more about how the gospel drives our vision and strategy…
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