The Program for Love – A Kingdom Catechism

The Program for Love

Q 1: What is the Law of God?

A 1: The Law of God is God’s program, which Jesus fulfilled, for bringing into being a people holy and blameless before Him in love. (Eph. 1:3, 4; Rom. 7:12; Matt. 5:17-19)

Q 2: How does the Law of God make people holy?

A 2: The Law of God does not make people holy; God declares holy those who receive redemption in Jesus Christ by grace through faith. Those thus redeemed and declared holy make progress in actual holiness by following the example of Jesus and obeying the teaching of God’s Law. (Eph. 2:8, 9; Rom. 3:21-26; Rom. 3:31; 2 Cor. 7:1; 1 Jn. 2:1-6)

Q 3: How are redeemed people able to make progress in holiness through God’s Law?

A 3: God makes His redeemed people holy as His Spirit, dwelling in their hearts, teaches, convicts, and makes them willing and able to obey the Law of God. (Jn. 14:15-17; Jn. 16:13; Jn. 16:8-11; Ezek. 36:26, 27; Phil. 2:12, 13)

Reading and meditating on the Law of God is every believer’s duty and privilege (Ps. 1). Order your copy of The Law of God, a compendium of the commandments and precepts of God’s Law, by going to www.MyParuchia.com, point your browser to “Publications,” then click on the drop-down option, “Waxed Tablet Publications.”

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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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