Assemble to the Lord The Law of God and Spiritual Discipline Assembling as one people to the Lord is of the utmost importance. “Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths….” Exodus 31:13 Central to the maintenance of a vital covenant relationship with God was the spiritual discipline of assembling as one before the Lord. ...
Seek the Lord The Law of God and Spiritual Discipline The Word of God teaches us to seek Him. The LORD called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any one of you brings an offering to the ...
Hear the Word of the Lord The Law of God and Spiritual Discipline Active engagement with spiritual disciplines begins with the Word of God. “Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be ...
The Hereafter The Law and Unseen Things God’s Law indicates an eternal continuance with Him. And the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers.” Deuteronomy 31:16 God declared Himself to be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He is not the God of the dead, as ...
The Future The Law and Unseen Things God’s Law points His people to the generations. “…for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of ...
The Power of God The Law and Unseen Things God’s power is over everything that He has made. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them, and the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes ...
Spiritual Powers The Law and Unseen Things Satan was not alone in his mission against the glory of God. “When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and Jebusites, and I blot them out, you shall not bow ...
Satan The Law and Unseen Things He is not much discussed in the Law, but Satan is present throughout. Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. Genesis 3:1 How did sin become established as a continuing condition of the human soul and ...
Sin The Law and Unseen Things Sin prevents God’s people from knowing the promises of His covenant. “Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!” Deuteronomy 5:29 The question immediately arises: ...
The Soul The Law and Unseen Things God’s promises are directed first at men’s souls. “You shall love the LORD with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” Deuteronomy 6:5 All worldviews are rooted in unseen realities—concepts of the greatest good, expressions of hope, statements of vision, mission, ...