Law written in our minds

Heb 10:15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Heb 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.


Laws in our hearts.
Laws written in our minds.


Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.


Rom 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Rom 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Rom 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
Rom 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.


The Gentiles…those not chosen by God to be His people- those NOT born from those chosen to be God's people did not have the law given to them. Not having the law some of them would by NATURE do the things contained in the law- they were naturally followers of God's law. Their lives revealed the work of the law WRITTEN IN THEIR HEARTS. Their CONSCIENCE and their THOUGHTS bear them witness- accusing or excusing one another.


We see this all the time don't we? I know I'm not Jewish by blood, I'm one of the Gentiles grafted into the family of God. When a stickler for the law holds fast the law and no more, they're not of God. The Pharisees of Jesus' time were sticklers for the law and they left love out of the law. By God, who is love, the law was given to us. Having compassion is paramount with God. His laws were given OUT of love for us not out of dominance and dictating. When love is left out of the law the law is empty. How is it possible that people not chosen to be God's natural people could keep the law? Because their hearts were with God- the law of God was written in their hearts.


To have the law in our inward parts, to have the law written in our hearts, means we will have God in our hearts and we will be God's people.


1Ki 8:57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
1Ki 8:58 That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
1Ki 8:59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
1Ki 8:60 That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.
1Ki 8:61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.


And having read the above from 1st Kings, it is true we must walk in God's law, the law He's written in our hearts. That HE may incline our hearts to HIM, to walk in ALL His ways. No, we don't have to uphold the ceremonial sacrificial laws because Christ is the embodiment of that law, but we will forever have to keep God's law, laws that are possible to be kept naturally even when people aren't given the law. The law of our hearts with God.


By the grace and mercy of God we will have His law ALWAYS in our heart, always!


Through the love of our Savior now and forever and ever without end.


Amen.