All Your Conscience The Rule of Law: Government of the Soul (4) Living by God’s Law must be our highest priority. “You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house ...
All Your Mind The Rule of Law: Government of the Soul (3) We must submit all our thinking to God’s Law. “Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.…” Deuteronomy 6:5 Just as ...
All Your Heart The Rule of Law: Government of the Soul (2) The heart is the heart of the matter in the life of faith. “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart….” Deuteronomy 6:5 Love for God, which is God’s intention in giving us His Law, as ...
Inside-out The Rule of Law: Government of the Soul (1) The benefits of God’s Law are realized inside-out. “And the LORD said to me, ‘I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken. Oh that they had ...
The Duty of God’s People The Rule of Law: First Things (7) The rule of God’s Law entails three duties. “Pay attention to all that I have said to you.…” Exodus 23:13 We are beginning to see that submitting to the rule of God’s Law is much to be preferred to submitting to ...
The Outworking of the Law The Rule of Law: First Things (6) This answer may seem simplistic, but it is not mean. “You shall be holy to me, for I the LORD am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.” Leviticus 20:26 What does obedience to the ...
The Motive for Obedience The Rule of Law: First Things (5) The meaning of God’s Law also provides the motive for our obedience. “When your son asks in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?’ ...
The End of God’s Law The Rule of Law: First Things (4) We should fear what this God can do to people like us. “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love ...
The General Intent of God’s Law The Rule of Law: First Things (3) The goal of God’s Law is to train us for love. “Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul ...
The Scope of God’s Law The Rule of Law: First Things (2) Jesus instituted a better covenant with better promises. “Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you.…” Deuteronomy 6:1 Before launching into a more detailed consideration of the benefits that ...