God's Law- Go on, read it. Read the SPIRITUAL- MORAL LAW OF GOD. And as you are reading ask yourself why God would do away with each of these laws. Find reasons why He would take any one or all of these spiritual laws away.
Exo 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying,
Exo 20:2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Exo 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Is there a reason to do away with this law of having no other gods before God?
Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Exo 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exo 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Again, is there any reason God would suddenly say it's fine to make and bow down to graven images, worshipping them?
Exo 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Surely God has no reason to destroy this law. I can't imagine His deciding it's fine for us to take His name in vain.
Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Exo 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
I cannot comprehend why God would not want us to remember the day He created for us back during Creation Week, and in remembrance worship HIM on the day He Blessed and made Holy.
Exo 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
God no longer wants us to honor our father and mothers, why?
Exo 20:13 Thou shalt not kill.
It's okay to kill now?
Exo 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Go ahead and commit adultery?
Exo 20:15 Thou shalt not steal.
Fine, steal, it's okay?
Exo 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Lie all you want, it's harmless now?
Exo 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Desire the things that don't belong to you, nothing wrong with that, right?
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If you're like me it seems ludicrous to truly believe that God would EVER destroy His OWN moral, spiritual laws!
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The LAWS all precede MOSES.
Remember this--
1Jn_3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
And remember this--
Rom_5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned
When did Adam sin, before or after Moses? Dumb question, right? We know that Adam was the first man created, so obviously LONG before Moses, Adam sinned. And, if Adam sinned he TRANSGRESSED the LAW of GOD. If Adam transgress the Law of God, what law was He transgressing? What law had been given already?
Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
When this command was broken this is what happened-
They chose the Serpent over God. (First Commandment broken.)
They disobeyed their parent. (Fifth Commandment broken.)
The stole fruit that didn't belong to them. (Eighth Commandment broken.)
Then Cain murdered Abel. (Sixth Commandment broken.)
Cain lied to God about Abel. (Ninth Commandment broken.)
People worshipping idols- (Second Commandment broken.)
Gen 35:1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
Gen 35:2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
Gen 35:3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
Gen 35:4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
Stopped from committing adultery- (Seventh Commandment.)
Gen 20:5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
Gen 20:6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
Gen 20:7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
Before the law on Sinai- (Fourth Commandment)
Exo 16:22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
Exo 16:23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
Exo 16:24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
Exo 16:25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
Exo 16:26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
Exo 16:27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
Exo 16:28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
Exo 16:29 See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
Exo 16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
And please tell me how could the entire world save Noah and his family be destroyed because of their wickedness if there were NO LAWS TO BREAK?
Gen_6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
By what standard was this understood?
The law given at Sinai was a written declaration of a KNOWN law. There was nothing new about the Ten Commandments given to Moses and God's chosen people. There were NO shockers in that list. There was nothing that hadn't been heard and known. People from the BEGINNING understood there were MORAL LAWS of GOD that could NOT be broken without consequence.
Am I harping on the laws? You could say that if you are foolishly denying their validity. Earlier this week we talked about the law revealing God's love to us. This is something we DARE NOT overlook. Satan wants us to overlook this, he desperately wants us to forget that LOVE wrote the commandments, LOVE created the commandments from the beginning.
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people
God's laws PUT into our minds.
God's laws WRITTEN in our hearts!
What exactly is being put in our minds and written in our hearts? God's laws!
No longer do we need the ceremonial aspect of the law given to Moses and kept by all that were God's chosen right up to Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Our Savior took the place of all the sacrifices needed. It was and is through faith in our LORD JESUS CHRIST that we find forgiveness and atonement when we've sinned, when we've broken the laws of God. When we've failed to LOVE as dictated in HIS moral law, the law that is put into our minds and written in our hearts!
Sinning is all about failing to love.
We fail to love when we fail to keep our God's Commandments.
Remember this…
Mat 5:21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment
Mat 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment
Was this Jesus doing away with the commandment … thou shalt not kill? NO! He amplified the commandment. HE EXPLAINED THE LOVE BEHIND THE COMMANDMENT!
Love dictates that we do NOT act against others unjustly. It's not enough simple NOT to kill someone. We are NOT to treat anyone unjustly even in our thoughts!
Our Savior knew that sin- failing to love others begins in our minds, in our very thoughts. Those Ten Commandments were GUIDELINES for us.
A pure love has only GOD and no other god.
A pure love does not worship false gods of our own creation.
A pure love does not speak of God without reverence.
A pure love keeps the special seventh day rest given so we would never forget our Creator.
A pure love honors parents.
A pure love does not kill.
A pure love does not join with any other than the one that is theirs.
A pure love does not steal.
A pure love does not lie about others.
A pure love does not desire the things that belong to others.
Honoring, keeping, refraining from, these are all actions that encompass our loving others.
If we have NO love but try to keep these commandments we will fail with every single one! You can't keep the commandments without love, it's impossible!
Our Savior lived His entire life fulfilling what it means to truly keep the Commandments. All the things He talked about, He LIVED! He did not tell us not to get angry unjustly and then Himself get angry unjustly. He did not tell us to love one another without He, Himself loving others. He did not tell us loves suffers long, without His own long suffering. He did not tell us to turn the other cheek without turning His own! He expects NOTHING of us that He didn't expect from Himself.
We are told it won't be easy, and it won't be. If you think you can change yourself into this being that loves others and God perfectly - instantaneously- you'll be in for a huge disappointment. First of all, it's CHRIST and the HOLY SPIRIT, who will enact the changes in us. Secondly, it's not like knocking ourselves over the head horribly and waking up a changed person, it's a work in progress within us as we EXAMINE ourselves, as we PROVE ourselves, as we learn to submit ourselves to our God, and give up all that it means to be self centered in exchange for being God centered, living love as He lived love.
All by HIS GRACE, in HIS AMAZING LOVE!
All through HIM! He succeeds where we can only ever fail!
In Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior now and forever. Amen!
Exo 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying,
Exo 20:2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Exo 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Is there a reason to do away with this law of having no other gods before God?
Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Exo 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exo 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Again, is there any reason God would suddenly say it's fine to make and bow down to graven images, worshipping them?
Exo 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Surely God has no reason to destroy this law. I can't imagine His deciding it's fine for us to take His name in vain.
Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Exo 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
I cannot comprehend why God would not want us to remember the day He created for us back during Creation Week, and in remembrance worship HIM on the day He Blessed and made Holy.
Exo 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
God no longer wants us to honor our father and mothers, why?
Exo 20:13 Thou shalt not kill.
It's okay to kill now?
Exo 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Go ahead and commit adultery?
Exo 20:15 Thou shalt not steal.
Fine, steal, it's okay?
Exo 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Lie all you want, it's harmless now?
Exo 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Desire the things that don't belong to you, nothing wrong with that, right?
*
If you're like me it seems ludicrous to truly believe that God would EVER destroy His OWN moral, spiritual laws!
*
The LAWS all precede MOSES.
Remember this--
1Jn_3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
And remember this--
Rom_5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned
When did Adam sin, before or after Moses? Dumb question, right? We know that Adam was the first man created, so obviously LONG before Moses, Adam sinned. And, if Adam sinned he TRANSGRESSED the LAW of GOD. If Adam transgress the Law of God, what law was He transgressing? What law had been given already?
Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
When this command was broken this is what happened-
They chose the Serpent over God. (First Commandment broken.)
They disobeyed their parent. (Fifth Commandment broken.)
The stole fruit that didn't belong to them. (Eighth Commandment broken.)
Then Cain murdered Abel. (Sixth Commandment broken.)
Cain lied to God about Abel. (Ninth Commandment broken.)
People worshipping idols- (Second Commandment broken.)
Gen 35:1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
Gen 35:2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
Gen 35:3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
Gen 35:4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
Stopped from committing adultery- (Seventh Commandment.)
Gen 20:5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
Gen 20:6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
Gen 20:7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
Before the law on Sinai- (Fourth Commandment)
Exo 16:22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
Exo 16:23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
Exo 16:24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
Exo 16:25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
Exo 16:26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
Exo 16:27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
Exo 16:28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
Exo 16:29 See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
Exo 16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
And please tell me how could the entire world save Noah and his family be destroyed because of their wickedness if there were NO LAWS TO BREAK?
Gen_6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
By what standard was this understood?
The law given at Sinai was a written declaration of a KNOWN law. There was nothing new about the Ten Commandments given to Moses and God's chosen people. There were NO shockers in that list. There was nothing that hadn't been heard and known. People from the BEGINNING understood there were MORAL LAWS of GOD that could NOT be broken without consequence.
Am I harping on the laws? You could say that if you are foolishly denying their validity. Earlier this week we talked about the law revealing God's love to us. This is something we DARE NOT overlook. Satan wants us to overlook this, he desperately wants us to forget that LOVE wrote the commandments, LOVE created the commandments from the beginning.
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people
God's laws PUT into our minds.
God's laws WRITTEN in our hearts!
What exactly is being put in our minds and written in our hearts? God's laws!
No longer do we need the ceremonial aspect of the law given to Moses and kept by all that were God's chosen right up to Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Our Savior took the place of all the sacrifices needed. It was and is through faith in our LORD JESUS CHRIST that we find forgiveness and atonement when we've sinned, when we've broken the laws of God. When we've failed to LOVE as dictated in HIS moral law, the law that is put into our minds and written in our hearts!
Sinning is all about failing to love.
We fail to love when we fail to keep our God's Commandments.
Remember this…
Mat 5:21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment
Mat 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment
Was this Jesus doing away with the commandment … thou shalt not kill? NO! He amplified the commandment. HE EXPLAINED THE LOVE BEHIND THE COMMANDMENT!
Love dictates that we do NOT act against others unjustly. It's not enough simple NOT to kill someone. We are NOT to treat anyone unjustly even in our thoughts!
Our Savior knew that sin- failing to love others begins in our minds, in our very thoughts. Those Ten Commandments were GUIDELINES for us.
A pure love has only GOD and no other god.
A pure love does not worship false gods of our own creation.
A pure love does not speak of God without reverence.
A pure love keeps the special seventh day rest given so we would never forget our Creator.
A pure love honors parents.
A pure love does not kill.
A pure love does not join with any other than the one that is theirs.
A pure love does not steal.
A pure love does not lie about others.
A pure love does not desire the things that belong to others.
Honoring, keeping, refraining from, these are all actions that encompass our loving others.
If we have NO love but try to keep these commandments we will fail with every single one! You can't keep the commandments without love, it's impossible!
Our Savior lived His entire life fulfilling what it means to truly keep the Commandments. All the things He talked about, He LIVED! He did not tell us not to get angry unjustly and then Himself get angry unjustly. He did not tell us to love one another without He, Himself loving others. He did not tell us loves suffers long, without His own long suffering. He did not tell us to turn the other cheek without turning His own! He expects NOTHING of us that He didn't expect from Himself.
We are told it won't be easy, and it won't be. If you think you can change yourself into this being that loves others and God perfectly - instantaneously- you'll be in for a huge disappointment. First of all, it's CHRIST and the HOLY SPIRIT, who will enact the changes in us. Secondly, it's not like knocking ourselves over the head horribly and waking up a changed person, it's a work in progress within us as we EXAMINE ourselves, as we PROVE ourselves, as we learn to submit ourselves to our God, and give up all that it means to be self centered in exchange for being God centered, living love as He lived love.
All by HIS GRACE, in HIS AMAZING LOVE!
All through HIM! He succeeds where we can only ever fail!
In Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior now and forever. Amen!
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