Is This Your Chance?

 Bending laws, twisting laws, changing laws. Are there some laws that we believe should never be broken, bent, twisted or changed in any way? 

God has this to say about His royal law - 

Jas 2:8  If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 

Jas 2:9  But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. 

Jas 2:10  For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 

Jas 2:11  For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 

Mat 22:36  Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 

Mat 22:37  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 

Mat 22:38  This is the first and great commandment. 

Mat 22:39  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 

Mat 22:40  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. 

Rom 13:10  Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law

Psa 19:7  The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

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We make laws and then we change those laws according to popular opinion. Our laws are constantly being revised- some for the better, some for the worse. God made ten laws that were written by HIM on stone. No other laws of God were written by His own finger on stone, none.

Exo_31:18  And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

Were other laws enacted? Yes, there were quite a few ceremonial laws and such- but none of them were written by the finger of God Himself. The mere fact that those ten laws were important enough for this distinction should give us all reason to pause.  

This law is PERFECT. 

This law is NEVER to be revoked while this old earth remains.

Luk 16:17  And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. 

Mat_5:18  For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

You cannot sin if there is no law and this is why many would do away with the law. This is why Satan would have men change the law to entrap them in his great deception. Changing a law that should never be changed, and therein causing many to sin by breaking that law, is one of Satan's greatest ruses. Will supposed ignorance of Satan changing the law of God to cause many to sin, excuse those who commit the sin? A sin of ignorance, is still a sin. 

Before Jesus returns ALL will have been judged and either been found wanting or found complete in Him. Jesus will not allow any to be deceived or to sin, even in ignorance if they are His. All will be given the chance to know His truth- all. Is this your chance, right now?

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Christ and the Pharisees -OR Christ's Faithfulness in Sabbath-Keeping.

BY A. T. JONES.

[Religious Liberty Library, No. 18]

[Cont.]

And of course they then knew who it was who had told him to do this "unlawful" thing-to take up his bed and walk, on the Sabbath day.

"And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because

he had done these things on the Sabbath day." Verse 16. 

We know, and have always known, that persecution is coming on the people who in this day keep the Sabbath of the Lord. Then of all people we need just now to consider the faithfulness of Jesus in Sabbath-keeping. This scripture speaks to us just now; "Wherefore; holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; who was faithful to him that appointed him," when he was persecuted for

keeping the Sabbath We need his faithfulness in keeping the Sabbath, to hold us faithful in the keeping of it, during the times in which we are now to enter.

Jesus was persecuted for keeping the Sabbath. Then whoever else is persecuted for that is in most blessed company.

Now think of this. Jesus being Lord of the Sabbath, and the Sabbath being the sign of what he is to mankind, and he being the living expression of the Sabbath in his life, it was impossible for him to do anything on the Sabbath that was not Sabbath-keeping, because the very doing of it was the expression of the meaning of the Sabbath in itself.

But his Sabbath-keeping did not suit the Sabbath ideas of the Pharisees and the doctors of the law and the scribes, and they called it Sabbath-breaking. So he was counted a Sabbath-breaker when he was a Sabbath-keeper.

We see people in our day who, like him, are counted Sabbath-breakers when they ire Sabbath-keepers. May all such be like him indeed in every other respect. Now Christ's ideas of the Sabbath are God's ideas of the Sabbath. The Pharisees' ideas of the Sabbath and, Sabbathkeeping, being directly the opposite of the Lord Jesus' ideas were wrong. Therefore the controversy in that day between Christ and the Pharisees  and the doctors of the law, was simply whether God's ideas of the Sabbath should prevail, or whether man's ideas of it should prevail. There was no dispute then about what day was the

Sabbath, the dispute was as to what the true Sabbath idea is. 

In our day it is still the same controversy, but with it there is a dispute as to the day; yet the thought is the same to-day that it was then,-whether God's idea of the Sabbath, or man's, shall prevail. God says the seventh day is the Sabbath; man says the first day is the Sabbath; so, it is still the same controversy between Christ and the Pharisees of this day that it was between Christ and the Pharisees of that day. 

Well, then, as Jesus was persecuted for Sabbath-breaking when he was keeping the Sabbath truly, all people forever are in good company,

when they are persecuted for Sabbath-breaking when they are keeping

Sabbath. 

"Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day. But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God." John 5:16-18.

By this we further see that the very first open steps that the Pharisees and the doctors of the law ever took against Jesus Christ to do him harm in any way, were taken because he had not kept the Sabbath to suit them. That was the

controversy between Christ and them; and upon this point everything else turned. (End Excerpt)