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00:38 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:40 I'm Chris Shelton your host, 00:42 and I want to thank you for joining us. 00:45 Today, we will be studying a topic 00:47 that I know is vitally important to God. 00:50 How do I know this? 00:51 I know this because He wrote it with His very own finger 00:55 for all the inhabitants of our world. 00:58 Today's message 00:59 is program number 18 out of 25 Bible studies 01:03 that we are producing from this study guide 01:06 that is entitled 01:07 "Sharing God's Love Makes You Happier, 01:09 What The Bible Says." 01:11 And this study guide was compiled 01:13 by Brother Richard Bland of United Prison Ministries. 01:16 You know, this study guide alone 01:18 in and of itself is a fascinating outreach tool 01:22 that any of us may use 01:23 to share the truths of God's Word. 01:26 If you were to contact, 01:28 if you were to call United Prison Ministries 01:30 and order one box 01:32 of 100 of these study guides for $100, 01:36 that would enable you to place 25 studies, 01:40 25 different topics 01:42 into a person's hand for just $1 each. 01:46 Yes, there are 25 studies contained in this one booklet, 01:50 and all 25 lessons are solely studied 01:53 from the scripture alone. 01:55 Then, 01:57 if you add 25 hours of sermons, 01:59 which we're doing on each topic, 02:02 now, you may hold Bibles lessons in your home, 02:05 Bible studies in the church 02:07 or share your DVDs with family and friends, 02:10 and make these lessons even more powerfully understood 02:14 that maybe what they might get alone 02:16 from this study guide. 02:18 But now back to today's important topic. 02:21 It is entitled 02:22 "God's Own Handwriting, The Ten Commandments." 02:26 Today, we have the privilege of studying 02:29 how God's Ten Commandment law was given to us 02:32 and why these 10 precepts 02:34 are so very important for each and every one of us 02:38 to thoroughly understand and to live by. 02:41 This is a study that you don't want to miss. 02:44 But first we're blessed to visit 3ABN 02:46 and listen to a powerful rendition 02:49 of "Find Us Faithful" 02:51 as sung by Alessandra Sorace. 03:10 We're pilgrims on the journey 03:13 Of the narrow road 03:17 And those who've gone before us 03:20 Line the way 03:25 Cheering on the faithful 03:29 Encouraging the weary 03:32 Their lives a stirring testament 03:36 To God's sustaining grace 03:42 Surrounded by so great 03:45 A cloud of witnesses 03:49 Let us run the race 03:51 Not only for the prize 03:57 But as those who've gone before us 04:00 Let us leave to those behind us 04:04 The heritage of faithfulness 04:08 Passed on thru godly 04:11 lives 04:17 O may all who come behind us 04:21 Find us faithful 04:25 May the fire of our devotion 04:29 Light their way 04:33 May the footprints that we leave 04:37 Lead them to believe 04:40 And the lives we live 04:42 Inspire them to obey 04:47 O may all who come behind us 04:51 Find us faithful 05:03 After all our hopes and dreams 05:07 Have come and gone 05:11 And our children sift thru all 05:14 We've left behind 05:18 May the clues that they discover 05:22 And the memories they uncover 05:26 Become the light that leads them 05:30 To the road we each must find 05:35 O may all who come behind us 05:39 Find us faithful 05:43 May the fire of our devotion 05:46 Light their way 05:50 May the footprints that we leave 05:55 Lead them to believe 05:58 And the lives we live 06:00 Inspire them to obey 06:09 O may all who come behind us 06:13 Find us faithful 06:18 May the fire of our devotion 06:21 Light their way 06:25 May the footprints that we leave 06:29 Lead them to believe 06:32 And the lives we live 06:34 Inspire them to obey 06:39 O may all who come behind us 06:43 Find us faithful 06:51 O may all who come behind us 06:57 Find us 07:02 Faithful 07:05 Faithful 07:16 Thanks for joining us once again 07:17 here at Behold the Lamb. 07:19 Today we have a very, very important subject 07:21 and again may be old news for many of you, 07:24 but it's gonna be some new things for people 07:26 who have never studied this subject. 07:28 We're gonna be looking about something 07:30 that God wrote with His own fingers, 07:33 think about that, 07:34 God's own handwriting, 07:36 the Ten Commandments. 07:38 And I just assume 07:40 that if God took time to write them 07:42 with His own finger, 07:43 that it must be very important. 07:45 How about you? 07:46 And so we want to look at this subject 07:47 as quickly as we can today 07:50 in the Word of God 07:51 and just really, just ask this question 07:52 before we have prayer is, 07:54 are the Ten Commandments still binding? 07:57 I think that's really what the subject really was it 07:59 goes into today. 08:00 Are the Ten Commandments still binding? 08:03 And if they are, certainly they'll lead to other studies. 08:05 But right now, I'm gonna ask you 08:06 to kneel with me, we pray together. 08:08 Shall we pray? 08:11 Merciful Father in heaven, 08:13 again, we thank You for the privilege 08:14 that we have today to look at this message 08:18 and to be able to open the bread of life 08:19 and to be able to find the answers 08:21 that You've left for us. 08:23 We pray in a special way for each and every one, 08:25 those who are here 08:27 and those who are with pay-per-view will listen. 08:30 And that we pray Your Holy Spirit 08:31 will take possession of each and every one of us. 08:33 Open our hearts, our minds, our lives, 08:35 may we receive that which You have 08:37 for us today. 08:38 We thank You for the power of the Holy Spirit, 08:40 we invite the spirit now in Jesus' name. 08:42 Amen. 08:44 Again, if you have your pencil and paper, 08:46 be sure to jot some of these down as we're moving. 08:48 We say it every time move quickly as we can, 08:50 there's so much material, 08:51 and I'm sure we won't get through it, 08:53 but we're going to make an attempt 08:54 to get through this, 08:56 God's own handwriting, the Ten Commandments. 08:58 You know, I think, 09:00 good point I was in the service for two years, 09:02 and I never really claimed to be a good soldier 09:04 but, you know, what really qualifies 09:07 a good soldier is to be obedient 09:09 to the commands that you are given. 09:11 So no soldier can be said to follow his commander 09:15 unless he obeys the commands. 09:18 You can't be a good soldier unless you obey the commander. 09:22 And so in our lesson today, we look at it. 09:24 I want you to have your Bible, 09:26 and I want you to turn with me, 09:28 maybe just jot down 09:29 because we're gonna go just as quickly 09:30 as we can with this, 09:32 to 1 John 3:4. 09:35 This is one of the first things 09:36 that we want to put out here for us 09:38 and then we're going to be, going to 1 John Chapter 2. 09:41 So get your Bibles and turn as quickly as you can there. 09:44 We're going to be reading 1 John Chapter 2. 09:47 And I'm gonna turn here in my Bible and get them ready 09:49 because as we go down this list 09:52 of God speaking to us, 09:53 I know it'd be an encouragement to you. 09:56 We're gonna look at here 09:57 if I can find it myself in 1 John Chapter 2. 10:03 These are very familiar passage of scripture, by the way, 10:06 and it's nothing new for you. 10:08 But I think it's gonna be a real blessing, 10:10 I know that's going to be. 10:12 And we're going to read verses, let's see 3-6. 10:16 Okay, 3-6. 10:18 Notice what the Bible said, 10:19 let's read this before we do the other passage. 10:21 1 John Chapter 2, we're gonna read verses 3-6. 10:25 It says, "Hereby we do know that we know him, 10:28 if we keep His commandments." 10:31 How simple is this? How simple is this? 10:34 Notice, Bible says, 10:35 and hereby we do know that we what? 10:38 We know Him. 10:40 If you say you know Him, 10:41 then the Bible says, 10:43 you know Him if we keep His commandments. 10:45 So if we don't keep His commandments, 10:47 then we really don't know Him I guess. 10:49 Notice how it reads on, 10:50 "He that saith, I know Him, 10:51 and keepeth not His commandments, is" what? 10:54 "He is a liar, and the truth is not in him." 10:58 If you say what now? 11:00 You say I know Him. 11:02 If you say I know Him, 11:03 everybody here everybody that sounds a voice, 11:05 most, everybody will say I know Him. 11:09 But there'll be a little different outcome 11:10 at the end if we're not careful. 11:11 If you say you know Him, 11:13 and you keep not His commandments, 11:15 it makes you a liar, 11:16 and the truth is not in you. 11:18 And we're talking about all ten, aren't we? 11:21 And Bible goes on to say, verse 5, 11:23 "Whoso keepeth his word, 11:25 in him verily 11:26 is the love of God perfected: 11:28 hereby know we that we are in him." 11:31 Notice, but whosoever do what? 11:33 Who keepeth His word, 11:36 verily is the love of God perfected. 11:39 Verse 6, 11:40 "He that saith he abideth in Him 11:42 ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked." 11:46 Jesus is what? 11:48 Jesus is our example, 11:49 so we are safe to follow in His footsteps, aren't we? 11:52 So we need to be careful, if we say we're Christian, 11:54 we say we love Jesus, 11:55 we say we follow Jesus that we love Him. 11:58 Then Bible simply says we will keep what? 12:00 His command. 12:02 This is not a denomination, this is not... 12:03 this group says what, 12:05 the Bible says, 12:06 Jesus says, 12:08 "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments." 12:10 So notice that, 12:12 the Apostle Paul goes into 12:13 or Apostle John writes in 1 John 3:4, 12:16 this is very familiar. 12:18 In 1 John 3:4, 12:19 he just gives a definition here of sin. 12:21 Says, "Sin is" what? 12:23 "The transgression of God's law." 12:27 Believe it or not, many people do not know, 12:29 that's the only, 12:30 you know, definition there is for sin, 12:32 transgression of God's law. 12:36 And then Paul the Apostle, 12:38 he declared, you know, 12:39 "Where no law is, there is," what? 12:42 "There is no transgression." 12:44 Romans 4:15. 12:46 So put the two things together as we can here today, 12:50 Apostle John wrote sin is what? 12:53 Transgression of the law. 12:54 Paul comes along and says, 12:56 if there is no law, 12:58 there is no sin. 13:00 And yet the majority of the world says what? 13:03 We don't have to keep God's law anymore. 13:04 The Ten Commandments, we don't have to keep them. 13:06 Well, the Bible is very clear, 13:07 if there is no law, then there is no sin. 13:09 Interesting. 13:11 Now, and then, 13:12 so what is the purpose then of the law? 13:14 The Bible simply said very quickly here, 13:16 Romans 3:20, 13:18 "For by the law," what? 13:20 "Is the knowledge of sin." 13:22 So the law simply points out what? 13:25 What sin is? 13:26 Aren't you glad we have something 13:27 that points out what is bad, 13:30 what their sin. 13:31 I'm so thankful we know what sin is. 13:33 So if we want to know what sin is, 13:36 then we have to say, well, there must be a law 13:39 and that law must be binding. 13:40 And that means all ten is binding. 13:43 So just according to a couple of verses there, 13:46 again, one biblical definition of what sin is. 13:49 And the other simply tells us quickly here about the law. 13:52 It says where there is no law, there's what? 13:54 There is no sin. 13:56 So if people are preaching and teaching today 13:59 that God's law is done away with, 14:01 then you can do really anything you want to do. 14:04 Isn't that right? 14:05 The Bible says, if there is no law, 14:07 there's what? 14:09 There is no sin, so it either is binding, 14:11 or it's not binding. 14:13 Now again, we can go into a lot of different you know, 14:15 a subject matter here about all the commandments 14:17 and go this is not the purpose of this study today. 14:20 The purpose of it is the binding, 14:22 are the Ten Commandments really binding. 14:25 And we have to look at it so based upon the Word of God. 14:29 And when I say binding commandments, 14:30 I'm not talking about a shortcut, 14:32 which some people take and say nine are. 14:35 Do you get it? Yes. 14:38 How many commandments are there then? 14:40 Well, we know there's ten 14:41 but many people will abide by nine, 14:43 but they will not abide by all ten? 14:46 How could we do that 14:48 when God wrote these with His own finger 14:50 and said this is it? 14:51 This tells you what transgression is. 14:54 This tells you what sin is, 14:56 right? 14:58 That's all the function of the Ten Commandment law 15:00 is to point out what sin is. 15:02 It doesn't save you, we're not looking at that. 15:04 We're looking at, I want to know. 15:06 When I grew up at home, 15:07 I kind of wanted to know the rules, didn't you? 15:10 If you didn't know the rules, you learn them rather quickly 15:12 and sometime the hard way. 15:14 So you knew how far you could go 15:16 and when you shouldn't go. 15:17 Now, so, you know, 15:19 as Matthew 22:40 simply says, 15:22 because we live in such a world, 15:25 that it seems like there is no law, 15:28 it seemed like there is no right and wrong. 15:29 I think most of you realize 15:31 it's such a condition that, you know, 15:34 such as our duty to God, and then our duty to what? 15:37 Our fellow man. 15:39 It's like, we don't even know that anymore 15:41 but in Matthew 22:40, 15:44 the Bible is very clear, it says, "On these two," what? 15:47 "On these two hang all the law 15:50 and the prophets." 15:52 So that law, they hang on there, 15:54 and the first what? 15:55 Four is our duty to whom? 15:57 To God, and the last six is our duty to mankind. 16:01 So there's that... I mean, it just falls in it. 16:03 There are Ten of them there 16:04 that we're going to be dealing with. 16:06 Now let's go back just a little bit to creation, 16:09 if you allow me to go back to creation. 16:10 Now remember, just a few little passages 16:13 that we already looked at. 16:15 That ought to cause a little bit 16:17 of people to be concerned 16:18 who is saying 16:19 we're no longer on the obligation 16:21 to keep God's Ten Commandment law. 16:23 Because those who say it... 16:24 Bible says, if you don't know Him, 16:26 you're liar and truth is not in you. 16:27 So no one wants to say, 16:28 well, no, we're not a liar, for sure. 16:30 And we realized that where we know no law is, 16:33 there is no transgression. 16:35 So we know there's transgression 16:37 and so we know there must be a law then in effect. 16:41 So let's go back to creation just a minute to, 16:43 and I'll do this here to get back 16:45 maybe with a children's story today, 16:47 go back to the animal world. 16:49 We go back to the animal world. 16:52 Think about it with me. 16:53 Inferior creation, 16:56 I believe that the animal world is an inferior creation 16:59 and it works by instinct. 17:01 Do we get that? 17:03 It works about, there're dogs, cats, 17:04 whatever animals they work by instinct, 17:07 subject to rules, and force, 17:10 which control them. 17:11 I want that to make sense to you 17:13 'cause you'll see as we move along. 17:16 Then we come to man and creation. 17:18 Man was made what? 17:20 Free. 17:21 Man was made free, right? 17:23 Freedom of choice, he can choose. 17:27 He has a brain, right? 17:28 He has a higher account he must give to God, 17:31 because the way that God made man. 17:34 So God made man then, 17:35 notice this, subject to law. 17:39 He didn't make animals subject to law. 17:41 The animals work by instinct. 17:44 And other people say, "Well, they do a lot more 17:46 and maybe they do whatever the basic instinct, " 17:48 but there're still rules, you see, 17:51 and there're still forces 17:52 which help them to decide what they do. 17:55 But God came along, gave man the ability to think, 17:58 the power of choice. 18:00 For instance, Isaiah 7:15 18:03 is interesting passage, 18:04 it simply say, 15. 18:06 Isaiah 7:15. 18:07 It says, "Refuse evil, and choose good." 18:11 Is that a choice? 18:14 The choice is, right, evil comes along, 18:16 you can look at it, 18:17 you can choose it if you want to, 18:18 if not, you discard it. 18:20 But God said, "I want you to choose that which is good." 18:22 He doesn't make you do it, 18:24 but He wants you to choose that. 18:25 And then Deuteronomy 30:19, 18:28 the Bible says simply, "Choose life." 18:31 So praise God, we have, right, 18:33 the ability God has given to man 18:35 that we may choose life, and we may have life, 18:38 and we may have it more abundantly, notice that. 18:42 So remember, by creation, 18:44 there's a point here, notice, 18:45 by creation man is subject to law. 18:49 I didn't say the law at this point. 18:51 I said, he's subject to what? 18:53 To law. 18:55 Without it 18:56 how can any progress be made 18:58 actually toward God? 19:00 Man broke God's law, man failed. 19:04 God had a plan. 19:06 God is what? 19:07 Is love. 19:08 He had a plan to call us back 19:10 a purpose. 19:12 God had still yet for mankind. 19:14 He wanted man to choose to serve Him. 19:17 He wanted to give him another opportunity 19:19 and another chance 19:21 to continue to develop the character. 19:24 So that would be like God, 19:26 because we were created in the likeness of what? 19:29 In the likeness of God. 19:32 Wouldn't this world, think about it? 19:34 Wouldn't this world be a mess 19:36 without laws and without rules? 19:39 Mine is why is it? 19:41 I don't hear... I've never heard I don't think. 19:43 Well, maybe some... 19:44 They complain 19:45 because when you go to a game of any kind, 19:48 you play games, you go here, 19:49 you go there, you go by, 19:50 no one complains about there's rules. 19:52 I mean, there's rules when you go into a restaurant. 19:54 You don't take your shoes and socks off 19:56 or your shirt off, there's rules. 19:57 No one really complains about any of those rules, 20:00 we never complained, we sat down, say, 20:02 we're gonna play a little game over here. 20:04 The first thing I say, what's the rules? 20:08 See in the church no one ever says 20:10 well, what's the rules? 20:11 What kind of rules does God have? 20:12 It just sound like a dirty, ugly word. 20:14 It's not. 20:15 What kind of a world would this be 20:17 if we didn't have rules, and laws, 20:19 and regulations, 20:21 which really apply to everything that we do. 20:24 Can you figure out anything 20:25 that maybe there's not some kind of rule, 20:28 some kind of a regulation, 20:30 the way that it operates, and so on and so forth. 20:33 I mean there's rules 20:35 to riding on a tractor too, a lawnmower, 20:39 power nailer, whatever might there's rule, 20:40 this is what you do. 20:43 And no one seems to get upset, 20:45 except when it comes to something God wrote 20:47 with His own finger, 20:48 we wanna challenge that 20:49 and I guarantee you, the enemy's behind it 20:52 because he wants to challenge God. 20:55 We need something 20:56 that will help us to know right and wrong. 21:00 We need that, 21:02 because there's too many deciding for themselves. 21:05 We need... 21:06 I've already said many times a moral compass, 21:09 a moral compass to put us in the right direction. 21:13 Now remember, there can be 21:15 no order in our government, 21:18 there can be no order in our society 21:21 without, notice this, without accepted laws. 21:25 And you can have millions of other laws, 21:27 it doesn't mean everything's going 21:28 to go hunky-dory. 21:30 Are you with me? 21:31 But you can have no orderly government. 21:33 You cannot have orderly society. 21:34 You cannot have order in the church, 21:37 unless there are some rules and regulations, 21:39 or accepted laws. 21:42 You have to accept that they're first, 21:44 and say this is what we want to do. 21:47 Man can, you know, man can't run a business, 21:50 you can't play a game, 21:53 if you don't have any of these rules. 21:56 Things are measured in this world, aren't they? 21:59 Things are measured, things are weighed, 22:02 things are put in pints, 22:04 things are put into courts, 22:07 and gallons, and bushels. 22:09 Are you still with me? 22:11 And then and then dollar value is put on it. 22:16 You know, in a gallon you have to have so much and. 22:18 of course, you have to have so... 22:19 Nobody really fights that. 22:21 Interesting. 22:24 If mankind is to live together in this world, 22:28 and in the world to come, 22:30 we've got to get along in peace, 22:33 and certainly in harmony. 22:34 Think about it. 22:36 But in order to do that, 22:37 there must be rules. 22:40 I mean, can you remember each as a young child we used to... 22:43 We call it shoot marbles... 22:46 For better I guess, I've got what it's called but marble. 22:49 You draw a circle, 22:51 and you put your marble, anybody remember that. 22:53 We call them the cat eyes 22:54 and all the pretty little marbles into there, 22:56 you'd have the bigger one, the shooting taw. 22:58 You know, and everybody would get around, 23:00 you try to shoot out the marble 23:01 and you can keep them the most. 23:03 But there was rules, 23:04 you couldn't just go in there 23:06 and decide you're going to get crossed 23:07 that line and get in there and just take what you wanted. 23:10 There were certain rules. 23:13 We used to play one rules 23:14 that had on there that used to call... 23:16 Something like mumble peg. 23:17 Is it what... 23:18 Does anybody, you wouldn't... 23:20 You couldn't get away with that today, 23:21 you have a big knife. 23:22 Are you still with me? 23:24 And you stand on, you face your buddy 23:25 and he's got a knife in his hands, 23:27 and you look down at his feet 23:28 and you throw it down and stick in a ground 23:29 and he has to put his foot over to that. 23:32 So you try to get them... 23:33 You know, get through out 23:34 where they can't stretch anymore. 23:36 Isn't that interesting, 23:37 and he would throw his on the other side, 23:38 and you stretch and you just don't... 23:40 You know, there was time, 23:41 the rule was, 23:42 you don't hit a man's foot, 23:44 there was times that sometime the foot was hit. 23:47 But there was rules, there were regulations. 23:51 You know, what every man 23:53 can't really decide then for himself 23:56 to do only what he chooses to do. 23:58 You see what a world that would be 24:00 if everyone of us just chose to do 24:02 what just we want to do 24:03 and how we wanted to do, 24:04 regardless of God, 24:06 regardless of mankind, 24:07 without respect to law. 24:10 Since God's law are naturally, we know a reflection. 24:14 Now, keep all this in our minds 24:15 as we go and look up some passages here. 24:18 As we know, God's laws are naturally 24:20 a reflection of what? 24:22 Of His love and of His character. 24:25 See, if we look at it that way, 24:27 it's a reflection of God's character. 24:30 How many would really want to do away with that? 24:32 You wanna do away with God's character? 24:33 Absolutely not. 24:35 You wouldn't want to do away with His love. 24:37 So there's something about laws 24:39 or something about what we set up 24:41 in the home with the family a lot of times is, 24:43 the children don't touch this, don't do that. 24:46 Why? Because you love them. 24:48 And you don't want them to get hurt. 24:50 God says that to us. 24:52 It is, remember a natural reflection 24:54 of God's love and His character. 24:57 In fact, the Book of Psalms 89:14, 25:01 tells us that, 25:02 Psalms 89:14 says this, 25:05 "Justice and judgment 25:07 are the habitation of thy throne, 25:10 mercy and truth 25:11 shall go before thy face." 25:14 That lets you know here 25:15 what we've just been talking about. 25:17 So God then, 25:18 His Ten Commandments are simply a fundamental moral law, 25:23 fundamental moral law. 25:25 As Romans 7:12-14, 25:29 you know, as condense it down, 25:31 it simply said, Paul said, "They are holy, 25:33 they're just, and they're good, 25:35 and they're spiritual." 25:38 I mean, how many of us would... 25:39 I mean, really setting in a church, 25:40 we're supposed to be Bible students. 25:42 We should be reading the Word of God. 25:44 And yet we say, well, it's no longer binding, 25:46 we no longer have to keep it. 25:47 Well, that means again, there's no sin. 25:49 We know better than that. 25:50 And then we go along, Paul says right here, 25:53 the law of God is holy. 25:55 So you wanna do away with something holy? 25:57 No. 25:58 It's just, you want to do away with justice? 26:00 No. 26:02 And it's good. 26:03 Do you want to do away with anything that's good? 26:05 Man, we're craving something good 26:06 in this world that we live in. 26:08 And by, and then he goes on to say, 26:10 and the law of God is spiritual. 26:12 Who would wanna do away with anything that's spiritual? 26:16 So you see, it's spiritual, 26:18 it's holy, it's good. 26:21 And the Bible simply said, 26:23 "All of His commandments are sure." 26:24 You remember that, 26:26 and they stand fast for how long? 26:28 "They stand fast forever." 26:30 It's said Psalms 111:7-8. 26:33 Psalms 111:7-8. 26:37 Jesus even said this about it in Luke 16:17, 26:40 He says, "It is easier for heaven and," what? 26:43 "And earth to pass, 26:44 than one tittle of the law to fail." 26:47 Well, that's, doesn't that make it 26:49 pretty clear to us. 26:50 Jesus said Himself, 26:51 the law cannot be done away with. 26:53 Does that make sense to think 26:54 that Jesus would come 26:56 as they were down on Mount Sinai, 26:57 I always say, well, God, and Jesus 26:59 was on Mount Sinai 27:00 and He wrote with His own finger, 27:01 these laws and then say, 27:03 now they'll be done away with, now there's... 27:05 He says, no, not a jot or tittle dotting 27:07 and I crossing of tee. 27:09 Well, no wise passed the law till all shall be fulfilled. 27:12 We'll look at that little bit closer. 27:15 Question one simply says, 27:16 who is the author of the Ten Commandments? 27:19 Hopefully, we've got that by now. 27:20 Exodus 31:18, 27:23 "God gave them to who? 27:25 God wrote them with His finger, God gave them to Moses, 27:27 "He gave Moses two tables of, what?" 27:30 It says testimony, He gave him two testimony, 27:32 "Two tables of stone, 27:34 written with the finger of God." 27:36 So now we know beyond a shadow of doubt 27:38 what's going on here. 27:39 God thought it was so special, so important, 27:41 that He didn't rely upon other angels to do it 27:44 or Gabriel or anyone else, 27:45 He'll say, you go 27:47 and write these down for the people. 27:48 God wrote them Himself, 27:50 because He realized 27:51 that we needed to know what sin is, 27:52 what transgression is, 27:54 because the penalty you see is death. 27:58 And God said, those who are gonna spend 27:59 eternity with me 28:01 have to realize what these are, 28:02 and by God's grace and His strength, 28:04 He will enable us to keep those laws. 28:06 How wonderful that is. 28:07 So to me, it's a law of love right there, 28:08 rather than the law you gotta do. 28:10 It's a law of love and protection 28:12 that God gives to you and to me. 28:14 Tables of stone, we know written by God, 28:17 the Bible says so. 28:18 So the tables of stone then are, notice, 28:21 a standard of what? 28:23 Righteousness, right doing. 28:25 Tables of stone are what? 28:27 The standard of righteousness, right doing, 28:30 that we can know beyond a shadow of a doubt. 28:33 Praise God for that. 28:36 And we know that which was written by God, 28:39 no heavenly being, nor man can change, 28:44 or alter, or destroy 28:46 that which God will use in the judgment. 28:49 Man has tried, right? 28:51 And Daniel talks about 28:52 and he shall think to change what? 28:54 Daniel 7:25, 28:55 "He shall think to change times and laws." 28:58 So somebody thinks 28:59 they're big enough in the bridges, 29:01 to change what God has written with His finger, 29:03 we need to be very careful with that. 29:04 Are you still there? 29:06 We've got to be careful with that. 29:07 That's part of Bible prophecy. 29:09 They're making void the law of God. 29:13 That's happening today. 29:15 That's happening as we talk about here, 29:16 and we're doing the things that's going on 29:18 in the abortion line today 29:20 is just, is absolutely sad. 29:23 Yeah, New York and Virginia are some of the latest ones, 29:25 you need to be reading something 29:27 about it right now. 29:28 They used to be able to abort up to 24 weeks, 29:30 that's a long time. 29:32 The baby certainly live and we're at conception, 29:34 we understand that. 29:35 But now they can go and wait 29:37 right till even mama's giving birth 29:39 and the baby is, may I should say, 29:40 the baby has come out. 29:42 And mama can say right then and right there, 29:44 I don't want this child and they'll get rid of it. 29:48 How sad, how savage 29:50 can we get in this country? 29:52 Let me tell you, it's working up too easy 29:54 for them to have a death decree 29:55 that goes on those who love Jesus 29:56 with all their heart. 29:58 I hope you're putting that together. 30:01 You see because they're already passing, 30:03 they've already passed death decree 30:04 as it were for the babies. 30:06 It's all the mother has to say is, I don't want them 30:10 while they're giving birth... 30:15 And that's it. 30:16 That's in Virginia and certainly in New York. 30:18 You talk about devastating. 30:20 But you have to see it in light of prophecy, 30:23 to help understand 30:24 why all this is coming to and fro. 30:26 Because the Bible said there'll be a death decree 30:28 upon God's people. 30:30 And here it gets much easier as we pass these rules, 30:32 manmade here, 30:34 we need to get rid of people, 30:35 we got too many people in the world, 30:37 and we'll pick and choose who we want to. 30:38 We need to keep all these things in mind 30:40 as we go what the enemy has planned. 30:43 "We're going to be judged by the perfect law of," what? 30:46 "Of liberty." 30:47 James 2 we realize that, verse 12. 30:51 Judged by what? 30:52 The perfect law of liberty. 30:55 So how you gonna do away with something 30:56 and it's going to be used in the judgment. 30:59 There's no one gonna make it to the kingdom, 31:01 no one going to heaven. 31:02 That's not been... 31:04 As it were, looked into the perfect law of liberty 31:06 and their life has been what? 31:08 Judged by that law, that law is judging them. 31:11 Have we, do we have other gods before Him? 31:13 You see. 31:14 Good, take the commandments right on down there. 31:17 So how can you do away with something 31:18 will be used in the judgment? 31:22 Man will receive a sentence on life and or death. 31:26 Exodus 32:33, 31:28 moving on, is that the Lord said, 31:30 Exodus Chapter what? 31:32 32:33, 31:34 Exodus 32:33 says, 31:37 "And the Lord said unto Moses," 31:38 notice this, 31:40 "Whosoever has sinned against me, him 31:42 will I blot out of My book." 31:44 What did God say? 31:45 Well, God's too good, I heard it said sometime. 31:48 Well, God is all, He, God is love, 31:49 and He's not going to keep us out of the kingdom. 31:52 God says to him and told Moses, said unto him, 31:54 whosoever sinneth against who? 31:57 Me, him will I blot out of the book. 32:01 Out of the book of life. 32:03 Him I'm going to blot out. 32:05 Remember, Moses came down from the mount, 32:08 you can just kind of pictured in your mind. 32:10 Remember, his face shone so brightly 32:12 that people couldn't look upon, could they? 32:16 And he had to put a covering over his face. 32:19 Now think what it was? 32:20 Well, because he was with God. 32:22 Well, certainly but you know, God is protecting himself too 32:24 and protecting Moses, 32:26 but could this be something in the law of God 32:28 that shone brightly also. 32:30 What could it really be? 32:33 The reflection of the righteousness 32:35 of Christ in the law. 32:37 Think about that, the law by itself 32:39 has no glory, does it? 32:42 It condemns you. 32:43 The law by self has no glory. 32:46 The law of God has no power to save at all. 32:49 It's simply points out what sin is? 32:52 I need a sin detector. 32:55 We need that. 32:57 So that we understand, 32:59 so that everybody's not saying, 33:00 "Well, in my opinion, this is not wrong." 33:02 Another guy say, "Well, in my opinion that is, 33:04 but this is not." 33:05 We can't do that because God has already said 33:07 what is and what isn't. 33:10 So there's no glory as it were in the law itself. 33:14 There's no power to save. 33:15 But what glory is in the law, 33:17 is Christ in the law. 33:19 That's the glory, did you get that one? 33:23 Which represents righteousness, and which represents the truth, 33:26 God is in the law. 33:28 Divine glory attached 33:31 to the giving of the law, why? 33:34 Because God is in it. 33:37 God is in it. 33:39 Anything that God's in, 33:40 there's some glory attached to it, isn't there? 33:42 A power, there's glory to it, 33:43 you know, because of transgression. 33:45 Again, we talked about that Israel 33:47 could not look on the face of Moses. 33:50 It was too painful for them to look on him. 33:53 So he loved them enough, 33:56 he covered his face. 33:57 I wanna think he covered his face 33:59 because they couldn't stand to look at, 34:00 it was too bright. 34:02 And so that's the way that it is today, 34:07 that's the way that it is today 34:09 because man sinfulness, 34:11 because of his sinfulness 34:14 he does not want to look, or hear, 34:16 or talk about the God's law 34:19 would shine so brightly. 34:23 It reveals what sin is. 34:28 And so man does what? 34:29 He tries to cover it up, 34:31 he tries to say that it's not binding anymore. 34:34 He tries to say nine of them are but you know, the 10th one, 34:37 especially the fourth commandment is not. 34:41 It's interesting question too, 34:43 how does the Psalmist David describe the law of God? 34:47 I think... 34:48 If you had, it didn't have any other passages, 34:50 this would be so exciting because Psalms 19:7 says, 34:53 what does it say? 34:55 "The law of God is," what? 34:56 "The law of the Lord is perfect." 34:59 Good. 35:00 "The law of the Lord is perfect, converting" what? 35:03 "The soul, the testimony of the Lord is sure, 35:06 making wise the simple." 35:09 Now, if there's any simple people 35:11 in here today, I'm one of them. 35:13 I need this passage. 35:16 If you look at something 35:18 and you're trying to decide whether it's binding or not, 35:20 or done away with not, 35:22 and then you look in here and say, 35:23 the law of the Lord is perfect. 35:27 Shouldn't you just leave it there? 35:30 Who would want to fuss and argue, and say, 35:32 well, that's not what it means. 35:34 The law of the Lord is perfect. 35:36 And I'll tell you why that is perfect. 35:37 God just give you the perfect 35:38 is because it converts the soul. 35:41 The truth inside of a person changes a person. 35:44 Outside truth is not going to get it. 35:46 The law of God written outside is not gonna get it 35:49 until you get it inside with the glory of God 35:51 and then changes come about. 35:54 Why is that we have such a hard time 35:55 to say that we're just, 35:57 well, it's not binding, it's not binding more, 35:58 we don't live, we live by grace. 36:00 Praise God for grace. 36:02 But it does do away with the law. 36:04 We understand that. 36:05 So notice that, it converts, I love that, the soul. 36:09 You know what convert is? 36:10 Convert here it talking about in the Hebrew, 36:13 it says, it rescues the soul. 36:17 The law of the Lord, what? 36:19 Rescues me. 36:22 The law of the Lord does restores me. 36:26 The law of the Lord is a coming back for me, 36:29 coming back to who? Coming back to him. 36:33 The law of the Lord perfect 36:35 or the law of the Lord is delivering me from what? 36:38 The enemy. 36:39 The law of the Lord is recovering me, 36:41 I'm in recovery. 36:45 You see it in this world because we are sinners. 36:47 He said, well, we talked about drug addicts, 36:48 they're on recovery. 36:50 I'm in recovery. 36:52 Are you there? 36:53 I'm in recovery, 36:55 because all have sinned 36:56 and come short of the glory of God. 36:58 We're all in recovery. 36:59 That's why the law of the Lord is perfect, 37:01 converting the soul, changing the life. 37:04 The testimony of the Lord, 37:06 the witness of the Lord, 37:08 the recording of the Lord, 37:10 a record of the Lord, did you get? 37:13 Oh, it sure making wise the simple. 37:17 People don't want to talk about walls, 37:20 and hedges, and anything else today. 37:22 But I'm gonna talk about a wall. 37:24 God has built a wall. 37:26 God has built a hedge about His people, 37:29 to do what? 37:31 To preserve us from sin. 37:34 What might that be, think about it. 37:38 He requires obedience to His laws. 37:41 He gave us the Ten Commandment law 37:42 to be a hedge around us, 37:45 to protect us, 37:47 to be a safeguard for us. 37:51 He requires us to be obedient to His laws. 37:54 And you know what happens? 37:55 It brings us health, 37:57 it gives us strength. 38:00 Oh, how wonder, happiness and peace, salvation, 38:03 perfection of character. 38:06 Think about how could there be perfection of character, 38:09 if we didn't know what sin is? 38:11 You know, they had no way to find out right and wrong. 38:15 Well, God's given us that way. 38:17 And the only way is we know 38:19 that this perfection of character 38:21 can be attained 38:22 is by simply knowing Jesus Christ 38:24 as our Lord and Savior by knowing His Word. 38:27 How do we know that? 38:28 Because the Bible says so, 38:30 real simple passage of scripture. 38:32 Psalms 119:130, 38:35 it just says, now you notice this, 38:37 "The entrance of thy word," does what? 38:41 "Giveth light," notice it, 38:43 "it giveth understanding once again to the simple." 38:46 So we need to think in terms of we are simple, 38:49 we're simple people. 38:50 And we need something simple. 38:52 But he said the entrance of the word, 38:54 somebody put the word inside of him. 38:57 Ask God to put the word inside. 38:59 You say that's wonderful, 39:01 but we've got to get in and start turning 39:02 and reading for ourselves. 39:04 It giveth us understanding, 39:06 how desperately we need that today. 39:08 Question three says, 39:11 what did Jesus say concerning the law? 39:13 Matthew 5:17-19. 39:17 What did Jesus say concerning about the law here? 39:19 Remember Jesus simply said, 39:21 we talked about it 39:22 and touched on just a moment ago. 39:23 Jesus said, "Think not that I am come to do" what? 39:28 People say it's done away with but yet Jesus said what? 39:31 "I came not to destroy the law or the prophets, 39:35 I am not come to destroy." 39:37 I mean, He repeats it again with force. 39:40 I did not come to destroy. 39:43 You hear people say, I didn't say that. 39:45 Somebody say, "You did." 39:46 "I did not say that." 39:48 A little more force put on it. 39:50 I did not come to destroy the law or the prophets. 39:53 "I am not come to destroy, 39:55 but to fulfill." 39:56 People begin to get confused here. 39:58 The Devil's trying to confuse them here. 40:00 We pray they'll come out of that in a moment. 40:02 Verse 18 says, "For verily I say unto you, 40:04 till heaven and earth," shall what? 40:06 "Pass" once again, "not one jot or" what? 40:09 "Tittle shall in no wise 40:11 pass from the law till all be fulfilled." 40:15 Jesus said, don't think, 40:18 don't think that I come 40:21 to this world. 40:24 And then when I wrote something with my own finger, 40:26 then I come to this world and then I say, 40:29 it's done away with. 40:31 I've come to destroy it. 40:34 See the word destroy, If you look at it, 40:36 even in the Greek it talks about here, I think. 40:38 It mean, I did not even come to loosen it. 40:41 Did you get it? 40:42 Didn't say just destroy and do away. 40:44 I didn't even come to loosen it up. 40:47 I didn't come to abolish it. 40:50 I didn't come to annul it, 40:53 the law. 40:54 Here law in the Hebrew is Torah, 40:57 which means all the revealed will of God. 41:01 All the revealed, remember, 41:02 the Bible said in Matthew 4:4, right? 41:04 "Every word that" what? 41:06 "Every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." 41:08 This is what God's gonna hold us accountable for 41:11 is every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. 41:13 The revealed will God has revealed, He said, 41:16 I didn't come to destroy the law. 41:18 I wrote it with My own finger. 41:19 I gave it to you for protection. 41:21 I gave it to you for a hedge to put around you. 41:23 So you wouldn't get yourself in trouble, Kenny. 41:28 What a God we serve, that sound like love to me. 41:34 You remember in the Hebrew Bible 41:36 there is a... 41:38 They kind of divided up and call a threefold division, 41:41 a threefold division simply, they divided up into members, 41:45 portion is the law, and then the prophets 41:48 and then they call the writings or the Psalms, 41:52 they divided up such. 41:54 The context here that we're looking about law, 41:56 Jesus is referring primarily to the moral law of God, 42:00 but He's also using civil law here. 42:03 And so He proves that, 42:05 it's contained in the Book of Moses. 42:06 How brilliant 42:09 Jesus was, as He was talking, 42:12 you see to the people 42:13 and bringing some of these things 42:15 on to them. 42:16 And you can prove that in Matthew 5:15-17, 42:20 Matthew Chapter 5, notice 15, I think it's 15. 42:25 No, Matthew 5:21-27. 42:28 Jesus does what? 42:30 He goes in and He selects certain passages 42:32 out of here in the Ten Commandments, 42:34 in verse 21 and 27. 42:36 So if you're not writing down, you never get it, 42:38 so we can't keep going back with it. 42:41 So He goes back and He does what? 42:42 He gives him, He starts quoting scripture, 42:44 and then He goes back, and He's getting, 42:46 pick out a couple of verses that refer to the moral law. 42:50 Then He goes to the writings of Moses 42:52 and then He picks out several of those things, 42:54 telling about the fulfillment of types and shadows, 42:59 and the ritual law, 43:01 that pertained to what? 43:03 That pointed to Him. 43:04 So He went back to the law, right? 43:06 Sanctuary, move back to the message 43:08 and all these things to do what? 43:10 To say these things 43:11 that you're reading about points to Me. 43:14 And then the New Testament, 43:15 He said, these things you're reading about here 43:17 in the New Testament, 43:18 when you say fulfillment 43:19 of all the Messianic predictions 43:23 throughout Scripture. 43:24 Let me give you an example, 43:26 quick one here, Luke 24:44 example here, 43:29 "And he said unto them, " 43:31 Jesus said unto them, 43:32 "These other words which I spake unto you, 43:35 while I was yet with you, 43:36 that all things must be" what? 43:39 Notice the word "fulfilled, 43:41 which were written in the law of Moses, 43:43 and in the prophets, 43:45 and in the psalms, concerning me." 43:47 Jesus go back and just read scripture 43:49 and say these right here, right? 43:50 Old Testament, these telling about Me coming. 43:54 All these promises, 43:55 New Testament talking about promise of the Messiah 43:57 of Me coming to this world for you. 44:00 So He came to do what? 44:01 What's the whole word fulfill, 44:04 which bothers a lot of people. 44:05 They say, "Well, the law of God's been fulfilled." 44:07 Think about. 44:09 He came to fulfill, 44:10 He came to make it what? 44:11 He came to make it full, 44:13 He came to fill it up. 44:17 So Jesus now presses home the truth, 44:19 this work part we need to get from this 44:21 when Jesus is speaking to us. 44:23 That the laws that He gave on Mount Sinai, 44:27 that anyone who presumes 44:30 to annul them, did you get it? 44:33 By precept or by example, 44:36 would in no wise, 44:37 in no case enter the kingdom of heaven. 44:41 Matthew 5 and you read verses 19, 20, 44:43 I wish we had time to read it. 44:45 I mean, this is really something 44:47 what Jesus runs right quick, 44:48 said, anybody that's trying to annul, 44:50 anybody's trying to say they're done away with, 44:52 you know they're longer binding anymore. 44:54 He said, they're no wise, no case 44:56 are they gonna enter the kingdom of heaven? 44:58 How could you would know right and wrong, 45:00 you would know the test is God's Ten Commandment law. 45:03 Do you love God? 45:05 Told the man just the other day, 45:07 we talking about here, said, 45:08 your duty is the first commandment, 45:09 thou shalt have no other gods 45:11 before Me. 45:13 You can't have any friends before Him. 45:15 You can't have a husband or wife before God. 45:18 You just can't do it. 45:19 God must be first in your life. 45:24 Think what Jesus said. 45:27 Once again, 45:28 He said I did not come to do, what? 45:31 Destroy the law. 45:33 And then he would turn right around and say, 45:36 but I came to fulfill it. 45:38 It doesn't make sense. 45:39 I didn't come to destroy it but I came to fulfill it. 45:41 So what's the meaning of it here? 45:43 As something they said, 45:45 well, He came to do away with it, 45:47 to abrogate it, to abolish it. 45:51 Remember, Jesus came to fill it up with meaning. 45:56 He came to set an example of perfect obedience. 46:01 Christ was obedient 46:02 to the Ten Commandment law, was He not? 46:05 All ten. 46:09 And He says, that's the same law, 46:11 the very same law 46:12 that He wants in our hearts and in our mind. 46:14 Romans 8:3-4 says, 46:16 "That the righteousness of the law 46:18 might be fulfilled," where? 46:19 "In us." 46:20 The righteousness of what? 46:24 Here the Bible talks about the law is righteous, 46:27 we talked about holy, just, and good, and spiritual. 46:32 So why would we want to do away with that? 46:35 Why would we want to preach it? Why would we want to teach it? 46:39 I've heard people say, 46:40 "Oh, keeping the laws and stuff, you're in bondage." 46:42 You ever hear that? 46:43 Just all old bondage. 46:44 No one who believes in Jesus is under bondage, 46:48 the law of God. 46:50 Why? 46:51 Because His law is a law of love. 46:55 Praise God, not death 46:57 to those who obey, certainly obey His principles, 47:00 do faith in Christ. 47:03 Remember, legalism, I hear this a lot, 47:04 oh, all you legalist. 47:06 Legalism or legal religion 47:10 strives to fulfill 47:12 the claims of the law in their own strength, 47:14 that's legalism. 47:16 I can do it in myself, I don't need any help. 47:18 We can do it ourself. 47:20 It's not what the Bible teaches. 47:23 Bible said, "Whosoever committed sin 47:25 transgresses also of the law" for the what? 47:28 Sin we read is a transgression 47:30 of the law. 47:32 Manuscript 27, 47:35 1899 says this, 47:37 talking about the law of God, 47:39 "This is the only definition of sin. 47:43 Without the law there can be no transgression." 47:47 We read, speak of Romans 3:20, 47:49 "By the law is the," what? 47:52 "Knowledge of sin." Let's go till we get it, right? 47:54 What does the law do? 47:56 It points out what sin is, right? 47:58 Romans 3:20, 48:00 by the law is the sample 48:02 that knowledge of sin. 48:05 Praise God for that. 48:06 Standard of righteousness. 48:09 Bible reminds us for the purpose, 48:12 the Son of God was revealed 48:14 because of sin, aren't you glad? 48:16 Jesus 48:17 willing to come to this world. 48:20 He came to this world 48:22 to destroy the works of the devil 48:25 and the works of the devil today 48:26 is those going around saying the law of God 48:28 is done away with. 48:31 There's no place in Scripture 48:32 can you find that as you well know, 48:34 1 John 3:8, 48:36 that's why Jesus come to destroy 48:37 the works of the devil. 48:40 Question five. 48:41 What did the Apostle Paul have to say about God's law? 48:44 Remember we read part of Romans 7:12. 48:47 Paul said this about, everybody loves Paul. 48:49 I love preaching Paul, I love preacher Paul. 48:51 Preacher Paul was the Seventh-day Adventist 48:53 if I might say so, if I might just be so bold, 48:56 because he's a Sabbath keeper, was he not? 49:00 Why's everybody love to preach about 49:01 but yet they don't want to keep what he said. 49:03 They say he's a real apostle, right? 49:05 Jesus called him into the ministry 49:07 and he's given the gospel to the Gentiles 49:09 and he's preaching all these good things. 49:11 He says the commandments are holy, 49:12 and just, and they're good as we read. 49:14 The law is holy, the commandment holy, 49:16 they're just and they're good is what Paul says. 49:20 Paul was teaching 49:22 of his experience, his conversion. 49:24 Now you may have read this before 49:26 and it's kind of interesting 49:27 and hopefully didn't confused and by, 49:28 we won't be confused today. 49:30 As Paul said, notice here, Paul says here, 49:32 I was alive without the law once. 49:34 You remember that passage there in Romans 6:9. 49:37 Paul said, I was alive without the law 49:41 once. 49:43 In other words, what was Paul saying? 49:45 He said, I felt no condemnation. 49:49 I didn't believe us binding, then we had to keep. 49:51 I felt no condemnation from the law. 49:54 But he said when the commandment came, 49:57 or when the law of God came upon my conscience, 50:01 then he says, sin revived and I died, 50:04 you remember reading that? 50:05 It's almost like confusing when people read it. 50:07 Paul said, I just didn't... 50:09 Think about it. 50:11 I didn't realize there's a law here. 50:13 I didn't feel any condemnation. 50:16 But when the commandment came 50:17 when he realized there was something 50:19 that God had written down, 50:20 the law of God came to my conscious, 50:22 he said, sin, what? 50:24 Revived and I died. 50:28 Interesting. 50:30 What did he say? I saw myself as a sinner. 50:33 Paul said, when Holy Spirit began to work upon me 50:36 and look the law of God, I saw myself as a sinner. 50:38 It pointed me out things I was doing wrong, 50:40 it doesn't save me, it doesn't help me. 50:42 It just points out what I was doing wrong. 50:45 Notice what Paul said here, 50:47 Paul, 50:48 not the law died. 50:52 We're not talking about physical, 50:53 we're talking about this spiritual, right, 50:54 and his conversion experience. 50:56 See something died but it wasn't Paul. 50:59 Paul, I mean, Paul died, and not the law. 51:01 Question six. 51:03 How many of the commandments 51:04 does one have to break 51:06 in order to be guilty before God? 51:08 How many do we have to? 51:09 James 2:10, you've read it many times it says here, 51:12 "For whosoever shall," what? 51:14 "Keep the whole law," that means ten, right? 51:16 The whole law is ten. 51:18 "And yet offend in one point, 51:20 he is guilty of all." 51:22 And you can't trace back the person 51:24 breaking any of the ten. 51:26 You trace back how they affect all the other nine, 51:29 you really broken them all, they touch. 51:32 So only one point, you can say, 51:33 well, I keep nine, that's good. 51:35 That's not good enough, 51:36 Bible says ten. 51:39 The good news if any man sin, 51:41 the Bible says, we have an advocate 51:42 with the Father. 51:43 Isn't that wonderful Jesus Christ? 51:45 1 John 2:1, 51:48 "The law of God simply points out 51:49 our defects of character it talks about here." 51:52 The Law of God condemns us as sinners, 51:56 we talked about it offers us no pardon. 51:58 It cannot save us. 52:00 But what does it do? 52:02 It points us to Jesus Christ. 52:03 To me, that's the good news. 52:05 When I fail and fall short, 52:06 it points me to Jesus Christ, 52:08 we can ask for forgiveness. 52:10 He's promised to forgive us. 52:12 But you know what? 52:13 He forgives us but He doesn't do away 52:15 with the law. 52:16 It's still there looking us in the face again. 52:20 He exalts the law. 52:22 Why would He exalts the law? 52:23 Because we mentioned He is a detector of sin. 52:27 It takes blood to cleanse us, 52:29 it takes Calvary, praise God. 52:31 Question seven. 52:33 What did Jesus say in evidence that we love him? 52:34 Here's our evidence. 52:37 Evidence, if you say you love him today, 52:39 here's what the Bible says in John 14:15, 52:42 "If you" do what? 52:43 Say for me, everybody, 52:45 "If you love me," do what? 52:46 "Keep My commandments." 52:49 Who said this? 52:50 Jesus said, if you love Me, keep My commandments. 52:57 Jesus was God in human flesh when He was here. 53:02 Does that make sense? 53:03 Jesus was God in human flesh. 53:07 John 14:11 says, 53:09 "Believe me that I am in the Father, 53:11 and the Father in me." 53:13 God loves those who are obedient 53:15 to His commands. 53:17 And obedience is a natural response to love. 53:21 If you say you love Him, 53:24 then it says you will by the grace of God, 53:26 keep the commandments, all ten. 53:28 Don't say you love God 53:29 and say, well, I don't have to keep them. 53:31 That's not what the Bible, Bible teaches here that, 53:33 if you say you love and then 53:35 that's willing you want to obey, 53:36 you don't have to, 53:37 you want to natural response of love. 53:41 John 14:24, time's running out, 53:44 said he that loveth me not 53:46 keepeth not my sayings. 53:48 So if we're not gonna keep his sayings, 53:50 we can say we love Him all we want. 53:51 But if you cannot keep yourself, 53:53 you don't really love him at all. 53:55 Because the transgression of God's law, question eight, 53:58 has made us sinners. 53:59 What was is it necessary for Christ to do? 54:01 We wanna get this in before we close, 54:02 Romans 5:8 said, 54:04 "God commendeth his love toward us, 54:06 that while we were yet" what? 54:08 "Sinners, Christ died for us." 54:11 God's law had been done away with, right? 54:13 Think about it. 54:15 There been no need for Calvary, 54:16 there been no need for Jesus to come and live. 54:18 Calvary proves beyond a shadow of a doubt, 54:20 the Ten Commandment law is still binding 54:22 because Christ went to cross 54:23 and He died in our stead. 54:25 Praise God for that. 54:26 Revelation 22:14, At the end the Bible said, 54:29 "Blessed are they that do" what? 54:31 Blessed are they do His commandments 54:33 that they may have a right to the tree of life." 54:35 We're gonna pray here as time goes out. 54:37 Would you pray with me please? 54:39 Our loving Father in heaven, 54:40 we thank You for Your precious Word. 54:42 We thank You for being with us. 54:44 We thank You for the, how clear You made it in Your Word. 54:46 Bless us now, we pray those who have made that decision 54:49 that they want to follow You all the way 54:51 and a blessing be pronounced upon them 54:52 in Jesus' name we pray for his sake. 54:54 Amen. 54:56 Hello and welcome back, friends. 54:57 You know, one of my mother's favorite passages in the Bible 55:00 was one that Pastor Kenny covered 55:03 just a bit earlier in today's program 55:05 and that being John 14:15, 55:09 it's a short verse. 55:11 And it reads, 55:12 "If you love Me, 55:14 keep My commandments." 55:16 That verse can speak volumes to your heart, 55:20 if you just allow it to do so. 55:23 You know, the enemy has tried to misrepresent 55:25 and malign God's Ten Commandment law 55:28 in so many ways. 55:30 But here in this one little verse, 55:33 Jesus sets it all straight. 55:35 If we love Him, 55:37 do you love Him? 55:39 Then should not this law be written in your heart 55:42 and in your mind 55:44 that you may not sin against Him. 55:47 Same principle goes for me. 55:50 And as we study 55:51 to fully understand the Ten Commandments, 55:54 we get a much bigger, much broader picture, 55:57 a clearer picture of the character of God 55:59 and what life lived in love and peace with God 56:03 and man is really all about. 56:06 Probably one of the most profound thoughts 56:08 that we may ponder in our minds is, 56:11 if we have no interest 56:13 or desire to live up to the Ten Commandments, 56:15 or don't know much about them in this life, 56:18 what makes us think 56:20 that we would be happy living up to them, 56:23 and the life to come. 56:25 This is a thought that certainly 56:27 is worth coming to grips with, 56:29 now more than ever, 56:32 as we walk this path of sanctification. 56:35 God will never force us to love and obey Him, 56:38 but He does lovingly do 56:40 all that He can to win our hearts to Him. 56:43 In closing today, 56:45 we hope that you will desire this message 56:47 to study again and again. 56:50 Therefore, we want to take the time 56:52 to offer it to you 56:53 for a love gift of just $8 or more. 56:56 And remember, 56:57 the title of today's message 56:59 is "God's Own Handwriting, the Ten Commandments," 57:03 but better yet, 57:04 you may order all 25 hours of studies 57:08 that are in this series that correspond 57:12 with this Bible study guide that is entitled 57:14 "Sharing God's Love Makes You Happier, 57:17 What The Bible says." 57:18 All 25 messages are offered 57:20 for a love gift of just $175 or more. 57:25 Would you call us here at Behold the Lamb Ministries 57:28 in the US at (618) 942-5044, that Central Time, 57:34 or you may write to Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:37 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:41 Email your order 57:43 at BeholdTheLambMinistries @yahoo.com 57:46 or visit us on our website, 57:47 that's BeholdTheLambMinistries.com. 57:51 Precious friends, until next time, 57:53 may our Lord continue 57:54 to richly bless you and yours. |
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