The Law Of God

Romans 3:19-20

The law which speaks here is the moral law of God as it appears in the whole Word of God, which every man is bound to observe and obey, whether Jew or Gentile. ALL mankind is under God’s law. And this law pronounces every son of Adam guilty and stops every mouth. We have no defense, no alibi, and nothing to reply; for the holy law of God exposes our corruption, both inwardly and outwardly.

Therefore, this is the apostle’s conclusion: the law cannot save, it cannot justify, and it cannot give us a righteousness. It can only do three things: 1.) shut our mouths and declare us guilty before God, 2.) teach us the depths and darkness of our sin and depravity, and 3.) shut us up to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Rom. 7:7-11).

Pastor Henry T. Mahan (1989)

The Untouchables

It is so comforting to know that not even a dog can bark at me unless my Lord allows it to. We should live in the reality of God’s sovereign control over all things. It is honoring to Him, and comforting to us, His children. In Psalm 24 it is written, “The earth is the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” Things are never out of control, they are always under His control for our good and His glory. Our attitude should always be, what is the Lord doing, not what is man doing.

Exodus 11:6-7 “And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more. But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.”

Pastor John Chapman

Trusting God

Most of us don't know God well enough to trust Him. Are you persuaded that God has complete control in reference to the things, which excite our anxiety? Are you persuaded that He will use this control in the best way as far as we are concerned? If I am to cast my cares on Him, I must know Him to be my Father; I must know Him to be my Friend; I must know Him to be my Protector, my Shepherd, my Guide, my Righteousness, and my Salvation.

I must believe His testimony that He loves me for Christ's sake. He careth for you. It's a small thing for God to care for us. He provides for the cattle on a thousand hills, all the wild beasts, an army of birds, fish and insects. Your needs and mine are scarcely a crumb from God's table. If He says, "I will care for you," then He WILL.

Pastor Scott Richardson

WHAT EVERY BELIEVER SEES BY FAITH

“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” (Heb. 2:9).

"But we see Jesus." How do we see Him? Not by dreams and visions or by the visualization of movies or pictures. Every believer sees the Lord Jesus Christ as Abraham did, by faith, "Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad" (John 8:56). We see Him as He is declared throughout the pages of Holy Scripture, "Beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself" (Luke 24:27). True God-given faith believes the record of Holy Scripture (1Thes. 2:13). Job said, "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee" (Job 42:5). Here are some key points as to how we see the Lord Jesus Christ by faith.

1). We see Him as God our Saviour, incarnate, personified in human flesh, "Who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death." We see Him leaving glory and coming to this sin cursed earth, "To seek and to save the lost" (Luke 19:10; Phil. 2:7-9). We see Him as the God-man Mediator working our perfect righteousness by His faithful obedience to the law of God (Rom. 4:6; Heb. 2:15-17).

2). We see the Lord Jesus Christ as the only substitionary sacrifice for sin, "That he by the grace of God should taste death for every man" (every one for whom He represents). The context of the following verses describes those for whom the Lord Jesus experienced death to put away their sin. “The every man (or the every one)” is a description of His elect in (verse 10-17), known as His: "sons," "sanctified," "brethren," "the church," "children," "seed of Abraham," "the people." Christ died for their sin, not to make their salvation possible but rather to make it certain and eternally secure (Matt. 1:21; Heb. 9:11-12; 10:14-17).