Learn from the Apostles The Law of God: Questions and Answers How should we understand and apply the Law of God today? So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. James 2:12 Jesus taught that a day is coming when all people will be evaluated ...
The Path of Love The Law of God: Questions and Answers How should we understand and apply the Law of God today? “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second ...
Seek Proper Understandings The Law of God: Questions and Answers How should we understand and apply the Law of God today? “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought ...
Begin Here The Law of God: Questions and Answers How should we understand and apply the Law of God today? If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination. Proverbs 28:9 The Law of God, Paul insisted, is holy and righteous and good (Rom. 7:12). The Apostle ...
Demand Consistency The Law of God: Questions and Answers Of what use, really, is the Law of God? And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth. Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to ...
All Things Good The Law of God: Questions and Answers Of what use, really, is the Law of God? Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. Romans 13:3,4 Ask any ...
Public and Private The Law of God: Questions and Answers Of what use, really, is the Law of God? For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because John had been saying to him, “It is not lawful for ...
A Check on Hubris The Law of God: Questions and Answers Of what use, really, is the Law of God? Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last. Acts 12:23 Few vocations seem more designed ...
Prosperity for Now The Law of God: Questions and Answers Of what use, really, is the Law of God? "Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you: break off your sins by practicing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, that there may perhaps be a lengthening of ...
The Judgment of Nations The Law of God: Questions and Answers Of what use, really, is the Law of God? Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment….” Amos 1:3 We have noted previously in this series that “transgression,” in Biblical language, indicates any ...