149 LAW
149 LAW
Rom 7:25 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.
The bible speaks about ‘the law’ not laws; it’s singular, not plural. There is only one law of God and it is fulfilled by love. There is also a law of sin that is fulfilled by disobedience.
God, in His word, gave His people the Old Testament law and expected them to obey it. If you look at it, it is all something that those who loved others would do; for them and for God. It took more effort than any one person could give to keep the whole law.
God gave the law to instruct in righteousness, not to control people. It was a guide to assist believers in how to please God; something that they wanted to know and do.
Any evil that was in anyone’s heart was immediately evident by a deliberate disobedience to the known law and was to be stopped because it would be a bad example for the innocent people around them.
God’s law and government laws are there for the good of all mankind. They are there for the health, safety and wellbeing of everyone and those that break them do it for their own personal gain and selfishness.
Jesus did not do away with God’s law but, rather, He fulfilled it. In other words, He obeyed it completely, to the pleasure of His Father, God.
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Jesus, in fulfilling the law, showed us how to do the same and please God. It is in the obedience to every little thing of God that we show Him that we trust Him and trust His outcome for every situation to be the right one.
God only wants to hear our ‘but God’ when it has to do with the benefit or wellbeing of others; when we start ‘but God’ for ourselves it is generally because we don’t want to do what He says. The same holds true for men’s laws; we break them for our own selfish excuses and, even though we are not caught by the police, God watches and takes note of our disobedience which shows our lack of love for Him and for those around us.
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
It is because we have and know God’s law that we can see disobedience. This is also true for man’s law because God commands us to obey them that have the rule over us.
In today’s world the words ‘love’, ‘respect’, ‘obedience’ and ‘faithfulness’ have all been warped and twisted until we don’t know exactly what they mean but ‘law’ is still ‘law’ and we can know who has love, respect, obedience or faithfulness by comparing their actions to ‘law’.
Rom 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Those that say they love but do not discipline their children are showing their lack of love for their children, those that speed are showing their lack of love for their neighbour who is travelling the roadways with them and those that disrespect God’s law is showing their lack of love for God.
Jesus showed us how to love God by His obedience, shouldn’t we be showing Him the same love by our obedience to what He and His Father says?
