Get the Word Out – The Purpose of the Law

Get the Word Out

Micah 4:3

…and many nations shall come, and say: “Come, let us to up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word fo the LORD from Jerusalem.

If you preach it, they will come.

We don’t hear much preaching of the Law of God these days. Certainly we don’t hear Christian people chattering on about the Law and trying to explain its many virtues to their unsaved friends. But God says this is a sure-fire way to draw people to the Church – especially in these last days (v. 1). If we preach and teach the Law, explaining it as God’s blueprint for loving and just societies, people will be interested and want to know more. We cannot coerce them to embrace the Law, but we can try to persuade them to do so, by our lives and our conversation. The promise of the prophet is, if we will do so, the peoples outside the Church will come around to have a look, eager to know more about how they might follow the ways of God. Hey, this isn’t me making such statements. It’s the prophet Micah, echoing his contemporary, Isaiah (Is. 2), and both of them merely speaking the Word of God. Either we believe this Word – that God intends His Law as a way of drawing the nations to Himself – or we don’t. But if we don’t, then we have some heavy explaining away to do in order to avoid the teaching of this text.

When was the last time you had a conversation with someone about the beauty and goodness of the Law of God?

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“In the Gates” is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T.M. Moore

T. M. Moore is editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

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