What to Desire The Rule of Law: Government of the Heart (2) The Law trains our hearts to desire what we should. “Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which ...
Take It to Heart The Rule of Law: Government of the Heart (1) Set your heart on the Law of God. “And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.” Deuteronomy 6:6 The heart is the most important component of the soul; from it, Solomon explained, flow all ...
This Is Life! The Rule of Law: Government of the Soul (7) This is the way we’re meant to live. “You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.” Leviticus 18:5 “Keeping” or, more literally, “guarding” the Law ...
True Righteousness The Rule of Law: Government of the Soul (6) Here is true righteousness, indeed. “And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.” Deuteronomy 20:25 Jesus surely must have shocked His hearers by telling ...
The Necessity of the Spirit The Rule of Law: Government of the Soul (5) We cannot submit our hearts, minds, and consciences to God’s rule apart from His Spirit. “And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the LORD your ...
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 ...