The Three Uses of the Law

For Lutheran listeners, we want to make sure we're very clear on something because we order the functions of the law a little bit differently. The speech of law comes to us as something that, depending on what condition we're in, is either good or bad. And so it condemns us. If you hear sermons where you get there towards the end of the sermon and it is, do this and you will live, that is putting people back under the condemning use of the law.