Write Them Upon Your Hearts
The sinner has violated the law but Christ came to redeem us from sin. We were conceived in sin because of the fall of Adam, and at birth we are lawbreakers by nature. Atonement had to be made. In the Mosaic law the sins were covered by the blood shed of an unblemished lamb once a year. But Jesus came as the final blood sacrifice and lifted sin once and for all. Jesus met all the conditions of the Messiah to come for the redemption of the people. Thank God that he sent his son who knew no sin but died a sinners death. Thank God his blood freed me.
Something is terribly wrong in the church today. Lets look at Romans 6:14-16 and 23. It says, "for sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness.?" In verse 23 it says, "But now having been set free from sin, and having your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life, for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Some people get confused about the law. Sin is what drives you to the law, otherwise no one would learn obedience. You can't keep sinning because you're under grace. Moses, oh Moses went up to Mt Sinai and God engraved the eternal laws in stone, and they are eternal. They prepare us for the day of judgement. The world disregards these laws. The church disregards these laws.
The law was for the entire human race, even though they were entrusted to the Jews, the chosen. There are 613 laws. Christians live by the 10 Commandments, or so we say we do. The first 4 commandments deal with our relationship with God and the last 6 deals with our relationship with each other.
Oh our nation needs to hear this! Commandment number 7, you shall not commit adultery. Our politicians need to read number #8, thou shalt not steal. These commandments are forever settled in heaven. Our nation needs to return to God and covenant. In Galations 3:24, it plainly tells us, "therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith."
These laws were not written to bring us to Allah, to Buddha, or some Guru in India, but to escape the wrath of God when he comes to judge the nations. The preachers of today are producing backsliders. The church is teaching love without the law of obedience.
The Apostle Paul preached the law. Look at Timothy 1:9,10 where it says, "knowing this that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers, for manslayers, for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust."
The law is our school master that lets us know how much we need the blood of Christ. No one makes it to heaven by just keeping the law, because if you've offended one of God's laws then you've violated all of them. No flesh comes to be justified by the law, but it shows us our sinful state and how short we fall from God's righteousness. I don't care how many times you've been baptized, without obedience you will go down a sinner and come up a wet sinner.
Jesus didn't die for our happiness he died to make us his holiness. Something is radically wrong in the church today. People profess the name of Christ but have never departed from iniquity. The bible says to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Christians today are not afraid. They have no fear of judgement, because if they did they would lay their sin on the altar and walk away from it. When we're changed, all things are new, that means letting go of old behaviors of sin.
There are thousands of people who profess Christ who do not live righteous before him. We need the light of God's word in us, to see what righteousness is. You won't find that outside of the law. Jesus' blood must be applied through repentance of sin, then you must renew your mind in God's word to search for his holiness and righteousness.
The world is full of people where they are not living up to God's word in what they profess. They are law breakers. Why does this type of preaching seem so harsh? Because we know inside that we've broken his law and we are refusing to allow our problems to drive us to the cross. But we know we need to be set free from sin.
Our preachers have failed to show what law breakers are in the congregation. If you are committing sexual sin, lying, stealing, treating people unfairly, endorsing the killing of babies, watching pornography, cussing then you are a law breaker. I am not judging you, God's word is judging you.
There are Christians who have been deceived and think they're going to heaven.while still sinning. Grace will not get you to heaven when you continue to break God's laws by putting idolatry in your life and ill treatment of your fellowman. God's law was made to save your soul, and it is good and it is just. But many today don't see the need for it. Just be happy and please yourself is the spirit we see.
God's people are being destroyed by this false teaching behind the pulpit and lack of knowledge and truth from the word. Blood will drip from their fingers before God one day. Men must be warned of what will happen if they continue in sin. They laugh, but they dance upon their graves. Have we become so insensitive to the care of the souls that have been entrusted to us?
Paul sat under the best teachers of the law. Jesus was versed in the law. Asked by a rich man what one must a man do to have eternal life Jesus said, "go sell everything you have and follow me." Today, we are so fat and think we have no need of God. That wrong thinking will take us to hell because we think the law is seasoned by grace.
Felix was a judge Paul witnessed to. Paul stood before him and boldly told him how to become righteous. Without holiness you will not see the Lord. Oh they will cry, but Lord look what I did in your name. He will say, I never knew you. Paul told Felix, you'll have to stand before God for your acts. Felix trembled in fear at this news. Paul had told him a truth that reflected himself. He said to Felix, God will judge your actions, your temperance, and your judgment toward others.
Study some of the teachings of the great ministers to the Christian church if you think the law is not important. Charles Spurgeon said, "I don't believe any preacher can preach the gospel without the law. The law is perfect for converting the soul. John Wesley said, "The first duty of a preacher is to show us the law."
These preachers raised sinners to the cross. They are not the preachers of today, with a soft message of the gospel and skirting around the word of God on what it takes to go to heaven, for fear of offending someone. That kind of preaching will not save a cat. You can't set the captive free without teaching what sin is and you can't teach what sin is without the law, so that they know they need the blood applied to their life.
Spurgeon went so far as to call preachers murderers when they fail to warn people of the reality of hell. He said, "Men must be warned, he said, as to what will happen if they continue in sin. Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon, you are too delicate to tell that man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them, and what happens?
They dance upon their own graves. At last they die! Your delicacy is cruelty, your flatteries are poisons, and you are a murderer. Shall we keep men in a fools paradise? Shall we lure them into soft slumber from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God we will not. Lower the law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt."
John bunyan said, "The man who does not know the nature of the law cannot know the nature of sin." Marin Luther said, "The first duty of the gospel for a preacher is to declare God's law, and show the nature of sin."
John Wesley stated, "It remains only to show that the use of the law, and the first use of it, without question is to convince the world of sin."
John 14:6 says, "Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." 11 John 1:9 says, "Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son." When you stand behind a pulpit and you don't give the right word to bring people into repentance to save them, then you are a transgressor of God's word.
1 Corinthians 10:20 says, "Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. You can not drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons, nor can you partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons."
God didn't give us the law to choose false Gods. We've been given an assignment to preach and teach the word, and the whole word. Popular preachers with a popular message will stand before the Lord. I want to stand before him blameless. I am about pleasing my Lord not pleasing men while souls are perishing in their sight.
John 16:8 says Jesus will reprove the world of sin. How do you know you need a Savior without knowing the law and being able to see your sin? Watered down, none confrontational messages will not show you that. People would never be able to see themselves in the glory of his light with preaching like that, and it only leads to sin and monetary happiness. Your very soul is at stake here.
We are in the end and the doors will soon be closed. We have a message to preach and to preach it with the power of the word that convicts. Don't play games with church because a feel good preacher will cause you to lose your soul. Feel good messages never made me repent of anything and it won't you either. Repentance is a must before the blood can be applied. Repentance is where holiness begins.
A woman was caught breaking the law with adultery and the law said she deserved death. But Jesus said, let those without sin cast the first stone." He began to write in the dirt with his finger. We don't know what he wrote but he may have been writing the commandments, the finger of God. Whatever it was it made all her accusers leave one by one. The law strips us of self righteousness. It left that woman with no choice but to run from her accusers into the arms of the Savior.
The law can only be erased by the finger of God. God has not done that, and neither did Jesus. He clearly said, "I did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it.
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