My many thanks to both the author, and this magazine. John B.
SOME CHRISTIANS ARGUE THAT THEY ARE NOT "UNDER THE LAW", MEANING GOD'S LAWS. BUT OBEYING GOD'S MORAL LAWS IS REALLY IS VERY IMPORTANT!
NOTE (JB) : BECAUSE THEY ARE THE LAWS BY WHICH ALL HUMANS SHALL BE JUDGED!
Romans 2:12 "For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;"
Many insist the law has been "Nailed to His Cross"
Colossians 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;"
These are the CEREMONIAL LAWS, which were replaced in total by Christ's death!
Deuteronomy 31:24-26 "And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee." {Malachi 3:6- Hebrews 13:8} Now to the story!
During the few weeks of each year, my back-yard patio becomes a demonstration lab for one of the most famous laws of science: The Law of Gravity. Above the deck stand several large black walnut trees that produce 1,000 's of hard, andheavywalnitsfor few weeks in the autumn, you relax on the patio at your peril;, unless you are wearing a hard hat! Only the squirrels are delighted.
Now walnuts, have been falling for eoins, before Isaac Newton formulated the human law of Gravitation. Newton's law doesn't make the walnuts fall--- it only explains why they fall. There are, in fact 100' s of laws of science. You may remember some of them from School: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction: energy cannot be created or destroyed; you can know either the location of a particle, or its momentum, but not both.
The laws of science differ from the laws by Governments. A friend was driving above the speed limit when she saw the read and blue flashing lights of a patrol car in the rear-view mirror. She was so startled ( it was her first encounter with the law0 that by the time the patrolman asked her, to roll down her windo, she was weeping. He took mercy on her and gave her a warning instead of a ticket. A person can SOMETIMES get5 away with breaking government's laws, but the laws of science, though, aren't negotiable They are the invariable facts of physics, in the physical world. One would be very foolish to jump of cliff, without a parachute, in order to test the Law of Gravity, if only to test that its still in effect! The bottom of the Grand Canyon is too far down, and there's no soft rocks!
GOD'S INVARIABLE LAWS.
God's the Original Originator of all the "Natural Laws" of nature ....>;
NOTE(JB): Please think about this....God had had to have all Natural laws in place before he began to Create, or just allow things to float in space willy-nilly? Remember the Star we call "The Dog Star," is so big that an estimated millions of our suns can fit within it! Yet the Sun, our sun, can hold one million earths!
.....>; in that He created all that we describe by them. Because the laws of nature not only, never fail, but they do not change, thus help us understand the the physical world and how it works; we can make use of them in order to fly planes and heat our homes, or even hammer a nail into a board.
The God who designed the physical operation of the universe also created the laws for our human behavior. He designed us in such a way that certain moral choices will always result in certain consequences. These laws, too, are necessary for us to understand how the world works.
The story of God' s Law begins with a deep fand fatal wound in the spiritual fabric of the universe. In the beginning, God designed human beings to live happily and peacefully { for eternity] PROVIDED we follow His instruction. He gave Adam and Eve but ONE RULE they could.go anywhere in their garden home and eat anything except the fruit from one particular tree.
Because God created them {and us} with a sense of curiosity and the freedom of a free-wll, to chose,, they became interested in in that forbidden tree! Plus with a little help from the devil [Whose greatest con-job is that most of us think he doesn't eve n exist], they did precisely what God told them NOT to do! It soon became apparent to Adam and Eve, and to all that followed them, that one doesn't defy God's rules with impunity. The consequences were foretold, and death is our enemy, plus toil, sickness, pain and sadness.{None of these hurts God wanted for us, but they are the results of of our sins, thus self inflicted, due to our choices}
The breaking of the mrule changed something, deep and fundamental. Sin became, from that point forward, a sort of universal systemic infection.....>
NOTE (JB): Yes just as any systemic infection we need outside help to remove it, that help is Christ Jesus.
....> There was no longer just one point wherein human beings could fail , but many. That's why God gave His people the Ten Laws by which to live by. The Spiritual history of humans ever since has been our efforts to follow God's perfect, invariable {they do not change) rules, and God's efforts to save us from our inevitable failures.
THE CRUCIAL TEN.
A few of these rules are respected by all human legal systems>: killing, stealing, unkindness to our family members, and dishonesty are unlawful nearly everywhere. Governments know that a society where people could kill, steal with impunity would be very unhappy one. For God's other laws, though, human society is of little help. For example God tells us to avoid sexual sin, while Western culture is saturated with sexual immorality. "Don't covet what you don't have," yet much of the world is engrossed upon gaining more and more stuff, within the world's economic system. that holds 'You need more and, and more, and nicer stuff'.
Some of God's laws are just between YOU and God, {The first four}" Honor no other god before me, Don't take personal advantage of My Name, Remember to keep the Seventh-day Sabbath, for it's My Holy day for your rest." Yes, God asks us to obey these laws, though we have the freedom not to.
NOTE(JB): Yes we do have the freedom to ignore His laws but none can escape its consequences, just look at divorce rates and aids, which are in direct rates to human sin-filed actions.
Following God's laws, then, is more than just staying our of court and being a good citizen. If you want to capture God's original intention for humankind, you'll have to be intentional and purposeful about doing what God wants you to do, both in public and in private. And when you do make that attempt, you'll discover a couple of things.
First, you'll discover that by following God's laws, you'll become a happier, more peaceful in family and community. Just as most cooks find that they have a more tastier, more nutritious results when they follow a recipe, so to are we humans happier when we follow God's recipe for life.
The second thing you'll discover, though, is that you can rarely keep God's laws as consistently as we would like, as we will still keep finding ourselves, as Paul says, doing what we don't want to do, and not doing what we want to to do {Romans 7: 15]
WE ALL NEED HELP.
To Jesus, the Ten Commandments weren't just rules, but principles. He summed the m up in this way: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart" [Commandment 1-4, and love your neighbor as yourself [6-10 commandments]. I n saying this, Jesus closed closed all the loopholes we might leave for ourselves. Most have not killed another human being but look......>
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Matthew 5:22 "But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, [ empty one, fool, stupid] shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire."
Matthew 5:28 " But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart."
Note(JB): The above are but two examples of the PRINCIPLE of the law!
.......>This leaves humans i n a quandary, for it means that even the best intentioned of us inevitably follow in the footsteps of Adam.
Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"
Are we then without hope? NO!.....>
Romans 3:24-27 "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith."
Romans 7:14-17 "For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me."
Is it no wonder that we find this...
Romans 7:24-25 "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."
Note(JB): There's no Salvation in knowing the Bible, Satan knows it far better than any human, but it'll not save him. No Church can Save anyone, nor can any human, only Jesus Christ is able to save anyone and every one IF they have accepted Him i n loving obedience. Everyone that desires life eternal will do that which is needed, and Jesus will do the rest!
However, and PLEASE..... remember that without Jesus, God's laws would be as sure and certain and unforgiving as the laws of nature. Prove the law of Gravity, by jumping of you roof....
Romans 6:23 "The wages of sin, is death........." Pure, Simple and as inexorable as the law of gravity, to one suspended over the Grand Canyon, but by the intercessions of Jesus, our sins can be forgiven and forgotten, as if they had been cast into the Mariana Trench!
AGAIN, PLEASE.... do not be presumptuous, and think just because God truly loves each one of us, so much so, that He'll not allow us to suffer the results of our sins, as in smokers getting cancer!
Romans 6:22-23 "But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Note(JB): Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21. are the 10 in their fullness.
Thanking Y O U for your time. Questions? Comments? John at servant@frontier.com
other sites? AFTV.org. BLBN.org Amazingdicoveries.org itiswriten.com
Want/Need more? Visit your Seventh-day Adventist Church any Sabbath/Saturday at 9-10 AM, Knowing that The Creator God has a place set-aside just for Y O U, in Heaven!
cc/jb
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
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