The Law of God. Do you believe it is still applicable today? Do you believe it was done away with? Do you believe a new law took the old law's place? Please, if you want to know more about the Law of God, read the following study. Take your Bible, pray to God, and then study like you've never studied before to know God's truth- it really is that important.
You wouldn't (normally) go a day without having something to drink, or eat, so why do we go sometimes days without spiritually drinking or eating?
We need a daily bread- spiritual and physical.
Please… study and don't take anyone's word for God's truth, no, not even mine. Study for yourself to know the truth, God will give you the truth if you truly desire to know it.
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Lesson #6 -- THE TWO LAWS
Introduction -- Whenever the question of the Sabbath is studied, a question is raised concerning the Law of God. Certain texts are cited... (Ephesians 2:15; Colossians 2:14-17)
Eph 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace
Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Col 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Col 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
...with the suggestion that the Law of God has been revoked, and is therefore no longer binding on Christians.
This teaching is the result of failing to distinguish between several groups of laws that are set forth in the Bible. We, in this study, will confine ourselves to two laws mentioned in the New Testament.
Romans 7:12 -- The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just and good. Hebrews 7:14-18 The law of a carnal commandment ... weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
Hebrews 10:1 The law having a shadow of good things to come ... can never with those sacrifices which they offered.
Note - By comparing these verses it is evident that one law cannot be holy and carnal.
A holy law being good in itself would not be a shadow of "good things to come."
By illustration, one cannot have a fully ripe apple and a "green" apple all in one apple. It requires two. So also in the matter concerning the law. Two laws are required to meet the description of these texts.
Section #2 --THE HOLY LAW
Romans 7:7, 12 -- I had not known sin, but by the, law, the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Wherefore the law is holy.
Note - The law that contains the commandment - "Thou shalt not covet" - is the Ten Commandment law. This law Paul declares to be holy.
Exodus 24:12; 31:18; 32:16 -- And the Lord said ... I will give thee ... a law, and commandments which I have written. And He gave to Moses ... two ... tables of stone, written with the finger of God. And the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Exodus 25:16, 21 -- And thou shalt put into the ark, the testimony which I shall give thee ... in the ark thou shalt put the testimony.
Note - Twice repeated was the injunction to put the law in the ark, the most sacred object of the Hebrew sanctuary. Of no other portion of the entire Bible, did God manifest such care for an accurate transmission, and preservation as the Ten Commandments.
He wrote them with His own finger upon stone, spoke them with His own lips from Mount Sinai (Exodus 20:1) and had it placed in the most holy object on earth, which in turn was housed in what was designated as "the most holy place, " the center of His earthly dwelling. (Exodus 25:8-9)
Exodus 20:1-17 -- The Ten Commandments
Note - This law forbids, idolatry, profanation, stealing, killing, lying, adultery, and covetousness. It requires respect of children for their parents, and sets for the seventh day of every week as the "sabbath of the Lord thy God."
Section #3 -- THE CODE OF MOSES
Exodus 20:22 -- The Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say . . .
Exodus 24:3-4 -- And Moses wrote all the words.
Deuteronomy 31: 24-26 -- Moses commanded ... Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark ... for a witness.
Note - In the giving, writing, and disposition of this book of the law of Moses, the contrast is clear and distinct between it and the Ten Commandments.
Let us note some of the regulations this lesser code contained.
Exodus 23:14, 17 -- Three times thou Shalt keep a feast unto Me in a year. Three times in a year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God. Leviticus 23:6, 14 (Observe the eating regulations connected with the time of the annual feasts.) Leviticus 23:24, 32 In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath. It shall be unto you a Sabbath of rest ... in the ninth day of the month.
Note - The Mosaic code regulated aspects of worship involved in the special feast days, as to time, and what could and what could not be eaten at those times. Some of these appointed days were called sabbaths. These were, however, the Sabbaths of the people in contrast with the seventh day which was the Sabbath of the Lord.
The summary of the contrast is given by Moses in Leviticus 23:37, 38. Note carefully the words -
"These are the feasts of the Lord ... everything upon his day: beside the Sabbaths of the Lord."
Section #4 -- THE CONTRAST
Nehemiah 9:12-14 -- Thou camest down ... upon Mt. Sinai ... and gavest them ... Thy holy Sabbath, and commandest them laws, by the hand of Moses.
Note - Nehemiah in reporting this priestly chant classifies the sabbath of the Lord with the law given by God directly, and not with the code of Moses.
II Kings 21:8 -- All that I have commanded ... and all that my servant Moses commanded.
Deuteronomy 4:12-14 -- The Lord spake unto you, and He declared unto you ... ten commandments. And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes ... that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
Note - The Mosaic code was a statute of limitations to be done only in the land of their possessions, while the Ten commandments as given by God were not limited to any locality, but were worldwide in application.
p 27 -- Summary - The laws and ordinances which Paul stated were nailed to the cross were the codes given to Israel to be done only in the land of Canaan. In Christ, the gospel message would go to all the world, and the center of worship would no longer be a tent or a temple built by men's hands, but the most holy place would be a man's heart surrendered to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Note carefully Hebrews 10:16-17.
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.
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Until we comprehend that the Ten Moral Laws, the Ten Commandments are to be written on our hearts and kept, we allow ourselves to believe they are no longer in affect. The sinner in us doesn't want to be shown the sin and told it's wrong. Sin is the breaking of the law. It is by the law we even know what sin is. We are sinners. Christ died to save us sinners. If we were not sinners, Christ would NOT have had to die for us. And if we are sinners, we must sin, and if we sin then we are breaking the law. It's so incredibly understandable if we allow ourselves to be open to the truth. When we take away one part of the whole truth we introduce lies to fill the gap. Once we allow lies in everything is corrupted.
Remember the beginning of our study- there would be someone who would think to change times and laws. IF this prophecy wasn't important, if it weren't important to keep God's law as HE gave His law, then it wouldn't matter if it were changed. Obviously it MATTERS.
We've studied WHO changed the law. Go back eight days and start the study all over again if you have to, the truth is there. You might not like the truth, but we aren't required to like it to believe it and know it is what GOD demands of us. TRUTH.
The Papacy changed the fourth commandment of God, the commandment that deals with time, the law and times that were changed. Today Sunday, the first day of the week is considered the sabbath by most Christians, and either knowingly, or unknowingly they are keeping a law that was NEVER changed by God and they will be accountable for this. We are all accountable either for keeping the truth we already know, or for rejecting the opportunity to know the truth. We are accountable.
The Lord is love and love is in His Ten Commandments, every single one, without change.
Do you follow God's laws or the laws of the man of sin who dared to change our God's law?!
God's law matters! It is to be written in our HEARTS! It wasn't done away with, it wasn't changed! We show our LOVE to our God through worship, through living a life as He expects us to live. We worship Him, His law for us has made this a special requirement so that we would NEVER forget our Creator, our Redeemer.
We really need to study this, we need to study and to learn, and to know, to live, to love our GOD as fully as we can through HIS power, HIS righteousness, HIS love!
Always in HIM!
You wouldn't (normally) go a day without having something to drink, or eat, so why do we go sometimes days without spiritually drinking or eating?
We need a daily bread- spiritual and physical.
Please… study and don't take anyone's word for God's truth, no, not even mine. Study for yourself to know the truth, God will give you the truth if you truly desire to know it.
*******
Lesson #6 -- THE TWO LAWS
Introduction -- Whenever the question of the Sabbath is studied, a question is raised concerning the Law of God. Certain texts are cited... (Ephesians 2:15; Colossians 2:14-17)
Eph 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace
Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Col 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Col 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
...with the suggestion that the Law of God has been revoked, and is therefore no longer binding on Christians.
This teaching is the result of failing to distinguish between several groups of laws that are set forth in the Bible. We, in this study, will confine ourselves to two laws mentioned in the New Testament.
Romans 7:12 -- The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just and good. Hebrews 7:14-18 The law of a carnal commandment ... weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
Hebrews 10:1 The law having a shadow of good things to come ... can never with those sacrifices which they offered.
Note - By comparing these verses it is evident that one law cannot be holy and carnal.
A holy law being good in itself would not be a shadow of "good things to come."
By illustration, one cannot have a fully ripe apple and a "green" apple all in one apple. It requires two. So also in the matter concerning the law. Two laws are required to meet the description of these texts.
Section #2 --THE HOLY LAW
Romans 7:7, 12 -- I had not known sin, but by the, law, the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Wherefore the law is holy.
Note - The law that contains the commandment - "Thou shalt not covet" - is the Ten Commandment law. This law Paul declares to be holy.
Exodus 24:12; 31:18; 32:16 -- And the Lord said ... I will give thee ... a law, and commandments which I have written. And He gave to Moses ... two ... tables of stone, written with the finger of God. And the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Exodus 25:16, 21 -- And thou shalt put into the ark, the testimony which I shall give thee ... in the ark thou shalt put the testimony.
Note - Twice repeated was the injunction to put the law in the ark, the most sacred object of the Hebrew sanctuary. Of no other portion of the entire Bible, did God manifest such care for an accurate transmission, and preservation as the Ten Commandments.
He wrote them with His own finger upon stone, spoke them with His own lips from Mount Sinai (Exodus 20:1) and had it placed in the most holy object on earth, which in turn was housed in what was designated as "the most holy place, " the center of His earthly dwelling. (Exodus 25:8-9)
Exodus 20:1-17 -- The Ten Commandments
Note - This law forbids, idolatry, profanation, stealing, killing, lying, adultery, and covetousness. It requires respect of children for their parents, and sets for the seventh day of every week as the "sabbath of the Lord thy God."
Section #3 -- THE CODE OF MOSES
Exodus 20:22 -- The Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say . . .
Exodus 24:3-4 -- And Moses wrote all the words.
Deuteronomy 31: 24-26 -- Moses commanded ... Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark ... for a witness.
Note - In the giving, writing, and disposition of this book of the law of Moses, the contrast is clear and distinct between it and the Ten Commandments.
Let us note some of the regulations this lesser code contained.
Exodus 23:14, 17 -- Three times thou Shalt keep a feast unto Me in a year. Three times in a year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God. Leviticus 23:6, 14 (Observe the eating regulations connected with the time of the annual feasts.) Leviticus 23:24, 32 In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath. It shall be unto you a Sabbath of rest ... in the ninth day of the month.
Note - The Mosaic code regulated aspects of worship involved in the special feast days, as to time, and what could and what could not be eaten at those times. Some of these appointed days were called sabbaths. These were, however, the Sabbaths of the people in contrast with the seventh day which was the Sabbath of the Lord.
The summary of the contrast is given by Moses in Leviticus 23:37, 38. Note carefully the words -
"These are the feasts of the Lord ... everything upon his day: beside the Sabbaths of the Lord."
Section #4 -- THE CONTRAST
Nehemiah 9:12-14 -- Thou camest down ... upon Mt. Sinai ... and gavest them ... Thy holy Sabbath, and commandest them laws, by the hand of Moses.
Note - Nehemiah in reporting this priestly chant classifies the sabbath of the Lord with the law given by God directly, and not with the code of Moses.
II Kings 21:8 -- All that I have commanded ... and all that my servant Moses commanded.
Deuteronomy 4:12-14 -- The Lord spake unto you, and He declared unto you ... ten commandments. And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes ... that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
Note - The Mosaic code was a statute of limitations to be done only in the land of their possessions, while the Ten commandments as given by God were not limited to any locality, but were worldwide in application.
p 27 -- Summary - The laws and ordinances which Paul stated were nailed to the cross were the codes given to Israel to be done only in the land of Canaan. In Christ, the gospel message would go to all the world, and the center of worship would no longer be a tent or a temple built by men's hands, but the most holy place would be a man's heart surrendered to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Note carefully Hebrews 10:16-17.
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.
*******
Until we comprehend that the Ten Moral Laws, the Ten Commandments are to be written on our hearts and kept, we allow ourselves to believe they are no longer in affect. The sinner in us doesn't want to be shown the sin and told it's wrong. Sin is the breaking of the law. It is by the law we even know what sin is. We are sinners. Christ died to save us sinners. If we were not sinners, Christ would NOT have had to die for us. And if we are sinners, we must sin, and if we sin then we are breaking the law. It's so incredibly understandable if we allow ourselves to be open to the truth. When we take away one part of the whole truth we introduce lies to fill the gap. Once we allow lies in everything is corrupted.
Remember the beginning of our study- there would be someone who would think to change times and laws. IF this prophecy wasn't important, if it weren't important to keep God's law as HE gave His law, then it wouldn't matter if it were changed. Obviously it MATTERS.
We've studied WHO changed the law. Go back eight days and start the study all over again if you have to, the truth is there. You might not like the truth, but we aren't required to like it to believe it and know it is what GOD demands of us. TRUTH.
The Papacy changed the fourth commandment of God, the commandment that deals with time, the law and times that were changed. Today Sunday, the first day of the week is considered the sabbath by most Christians, and either knowingly, or unknowingly they are keeping a law that was NEVER changed by God and they will be accountable for this. We are all accountable either for keeping the truth we already know, or for rejecting the opportunity to know the truth. We are accountable.
The Lord is love and love is in His Ten Commandments, every single one, without change.
Do you follow God's laws or the laws of the man of sin who dared to change our God's law?!
God's law matters! It is to be written in our HEARTS! It wasn't done away with, it wasn't changed! We show our LOVE to our God through worship, through living a life as He expects us to live. We worship Him, His law for us has made this a special requirement so that we would NEVER forget our Creator, our Redeemer.
We really need to study this, we need to study and to learn, and to know, to live, to love our GOD as fully as we can through HIS power, HIS righteousness, HIS love!
Always in HIM!
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