The Law of God
The Need for Law
1.1
What is the condition of everyone who has ever lived upon the Earth?
Romans 5:12. “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”
1.2
What is sin?
1 John 3:4. “Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.”
1.3
What does the law do regarding sin?
Romans 3:20. “Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”
1.4
What happens if there is no law?
Romans 4:15. “Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.”
Romans 5:13. “(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed where there is no law.”
1.5
If there is no sin because there is no law, what else is not needed?
Matthew 1:21. “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.”
Identity of the Law
2.1
How is the Law structured?
James 2:10. “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”
2.2
What points are included in the Law?
James 2:11. “For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.”
2.3
What point does Paul include in the Law?
Romans 7:7. “What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.”
2.4
What additional point does Paul include in the Law?
Ephesians 6:1, 2. “1Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)”
How the Law of God Was Given
3.1
How many lawgivers are there?
James 4:12. “There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?”
3.2
Where was the Law given?
Nehemiah 9:13, 14. “13Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: 14And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:”
3.3
How did God communicate His Law to His people?
Exodus 20:1. “And God spake all these words, saying, . . .”
3.4
How was a permanent record of the Law made?
Exodus 31:18. “And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.”
3.5
Under what conditions was the Law given?
Exodus 19:16-19. “16And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a think cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. 17And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 18And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 19And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.”
3.6
After Moses broke the stone tables, how was the Law given the second time?
Deuteronomy 10:1-4. “1At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. 2And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. 3And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. 4And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me.”
The Ten Commandments
4.1
Where is this law most clearly stated?
Exodus 20:1-17. “1And God spake all these words, saying, 2I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 7Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six day shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy strnager that is within thy gates: 11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 13Thou shalt not kill. 14Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15Thou shalt not steal. 16Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 17Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.”
The Moral Law was Different from Other Laws
5.1
Were the Ten Commandments considered a "law"?
Exodus 24:12. “And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.”
5.2
How much was included in this "law"?
Deuteronomy 5:22. “These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the think darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.”
5.3
What did the Ten Commandments become?
Deuteronomy 4:13. “And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.”
5.4
Where did Moses place the Ten Commandments?
Deuteronomy 10:5. “And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commandend me.”
5.5
Were other laws given to Moses?
Leviticus 7:37, 38. “37This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifiece of the peace offerings; 38Which the Lord commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai.”
5.6
How were these other laws given, and where were they kept?
Deuteronomy 31:24-26. “24And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book until they were finished, 25That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, 26Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.”
Sin and the Law before Creation
6.1
What did Satan do before the creation of the Earth?
1 John 3:8. “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”
6.2
What shows Satan sinned against God’s Moral Law?
John 8:44. “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murder from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father if it.”
6.3
What did the angels that followed Satan do?
2 Peter 2:4. “For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;”
Sin and Law in the Old Testament
7.1
What shows that Adam and Eve broke several of the Ten Commandments?
Genesis 3:6. “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.”
7.2
Did individuals sin before God gave the Law to Moses?
Genesis 4:7, 8. “7If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. 8And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.”
7.3
Did small groups of people sin before God gave the Law to Moses?
Genesis 42:22. “And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.”
7.4
Did large groups of people sin before God gave the Law to Moses?
Genesis 13:13. “But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.”
7.5
Who kept God’s laws before Moses received the Law?
Genesis 26:5. “Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
Romans 5:13. “For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.”
7.6
What did Moses use to judge between the people before the Law was given?
Exodus 18:16. “When they have a matter, they come unto me, and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”
7.7
Why did God bring His people out of Egypt?
Psalm 105:43, 45. “43And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness: . . . 45That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord.”
7.8
Did the wicked know right and wrong before Moses received the Law?
Genesis 20:9. “Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offenced thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.”
Genesis 26:9, 10. “9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her. 10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.”
7.9
Did moral principles exist before Moses received the Law?
Genesis 35:2. “Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him. Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:”
Genesis 31:19. “And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s”
Genesis 4:23, 24. “23And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice: ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. 24If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.”
Genesis 4:8. “And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.”
Genesis 39:9. “There is none greater in this house than I, neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
Genesis 6:5. “And God saw that the wickedness was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
The Law in the New Testament
8.1
Is the Law good or bad?
1 Timothy 1:8. “But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully.”
8.2
How does Paul describe the Law?
Romans 7:12. “Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.”
8.3
What is the nature of the Law?
Romans 7:14. “For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.”
8.4
What shows that the New Testament does not remove but enlarges on the principles of the Law?
1 John 3:15. “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.”
8.5
What is the carnal mind not subject to?
Romans 8:7. “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”
8.6
What did Paul say really matters most?
1 Corinthians 7:19. “Circumcision is nothing and unciscumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.”
8.7
What two laws did Paul serve?
Romans 7:25. “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”
8.8
How did Paul feel about the Law?
Romans 7:22. “For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:”
Jesus Supported the Law
9.1
Did Jesus honor the first and second Commandments?
Matthew 4:8-10. “8Again the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, If thou wilt fall down and worship me. 10Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”
9.2
Did Jesus observe the fourth Commandment?
Luke 4:16 . “And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.”
9.3
Did Jesus observe the fifth Commandment?
Matthew 15:4-6. “4For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. 5But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me. 6And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.”
9.4
Did Jesus recognize the sixth Commandment?
Matthew 5:21, 22. “21Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: 22But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.”
9.5
Did Jesus recognize the seventh Commandment?
Matthew 5:27, 28. “27Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
9.6
Did Jesus recognize the fifth through the ninth Commandments?
Matthew 19:16-19. “16And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? 17And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. 18He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, 19Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
9.7
Did Jesus understand the deeper meaning of these commandments in the Law?
Matthew 15:18-20. “18But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.”
The Law Summarized
10.1
Which commandments did Jesus say were the most important in the Law?
Matthew 22:35-40. “35Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38This is the first and great commandment. 39And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
10.2
How do we know Jesus is summarizing the Ten Commandments?
Matthew 7:12. “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.”
10.3
Did the Apostle Paul also recognize this summary?
Romans 13:9. “For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
10.4
How much of the Law did Paul’s summary include?
Galatians 5:14. “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
10.5
Where did Jesus get this summary?
Deuteronomy 6:5. “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”
Leviticus 19:18. “Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.”
10.6
How did Jesus combine the two commandments into one?
Matthew 22:40. “On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
Matthew 7:12. “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.”
The Perpetity of the Law
11.1
Did Jesus teach the Law would be abolished?
Matthew 5:17, 18. “17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”
11.2
Does faith make void the Law?
Romans 3:31. “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.”
11.3
How long will God’s commandments last?
Psalm 111:7, 8. “7The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure. 8They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.”
The Purpose of the Law
12.1
What is the function of the Law?
Romans 3:19, 20. “19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”
12.2
What is the Law unable to do?
Galatians 2:16. “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.”
12.3
Why was the Law given?
Romans 5:20. “Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.”
12.4
What objective does the Law have?
Galatians 3:24. “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.”
12.5
Who is the Law for?
1 Timothy 1:9, 10. “9Knowing this that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murders of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;”
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How is the value of the Law described?
Psalm 119:142. “Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.”
12.7
What happens when the Law is in your heart?
Psalm 37:31. “The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.”
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What are the results of keeping God’s Law?
Proverbs 3:1, 2. “1My son, forget not my law; but let thinke heart keep my commandments. 2For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.”
What the Law Gives
13.1
What does the Law do?
Psalm 19:7, 8. “7The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. 8The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.”
13.2
Who are blessed?
Psalm 119:1. “Blessed are the undefied in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.”
13.3
What do those who love the Law have?
Psalm 119:165. “Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.”
Those without the Law
14.1
What do we lack when we do not keep His Commandments?
1 John 2:4. “He that saith I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”
14.2
What is the connection between law and prayer?
Proverbs 28:9. “He that turneth his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.”
14.3
What type of people will not hear the Law?
Isaiah 30:9. “That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:
The Law and Judgment
15.1
The Law has what role in the Judgment?
Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14. “13Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this isduty of man. 14For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.”
15.2
What is the standard in the Judgment?
James 2:12. “So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.”
15.3
How can we guilty of judging the Law?
James 4:11. “Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.”
15.4
Is the Judgment based on a fair application of the Law?
Romans 2:27. “And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?”
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Will the law be fair to all in the Judgment?
Romans 2:12-16. “12For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; 13(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 14For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or esle excusing one another;) 16in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.”
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Does God live by His laws?
Psalm 111:7, 8. “7The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure. 8They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.”
God’s People and the Law
16.1
What important role does God’s Law have in the last days?
Revelation 11:19. “And the temple of God was opoened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.”
16.2
How are God’s last-day people described?
Revelation 12:17. “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
16.3
Where will God place His law in the last days?
Hebrews 8:10. “for this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
16.4
What do the saints do?
Revelation 14:12. “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
The Law and Love
17.1
How do we receive love from God and Jesus?
John 14:21. “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.”
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What happens if we keep the Commandments?
John 15:10. “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.”
17.3
What should we do if we love Jesus?
John 14:15. “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
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What is love?
2 John 1:5, 6. “5And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. 6And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.”
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What is keeping God’s commandments the same as?
1 John 5:3. “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.”
17.6
How do we know if we love others?
1 John 5:2. “By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments”
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What agreement does God keep with those who keep His commandments?
Daniel 9:4. “And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;”
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What value did David place on loving God’s commandments?
Psalm 119:127. “Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.”
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How is the Law also fulfilled?
Romans 13:8, 10. “8Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. . . . 10Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”
17.10
What law does love fulfill?
James 2:8. “If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:”
The Law and the Holy Spirit
18.1
What does the law of the Spirit free us from?
Romans 8:2. “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”
18.2
What is fulfilled in us when we walk after the Spirit?
Romans 8:3, 4. “3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
God and the Law Compared
19.1
Compare the love of God and of the Law.
1 John 4:8. “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”
Romans 13:10. “Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”
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Compare the nature of God and of the Law.
1 John 1:5. “Then this is the message we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.”
Proverbs 6:23. “For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:”
19.3
Compare the holiness of God and of the Law.
Leviticus 11:44. “For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sancify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: ...”
Romans 7:12. “Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.”
19.4
Compare the perfection of God and of the Law.
Matthew 5:48. “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”
Psalm 19:7. “The law of the Lord isis perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.”
19.5
Compare the goodness of God and of the Law.
Psalm 34:8. “O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.”
1 Timothy 1:8. “But we know the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;”
19.6
Compare the truth of God and of the Law.
John 14:6. “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
Psalm 119:142. “Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.”
19.7
Compare the righteousness of God and of the Law.
Jeremiah 23:6. “In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, the lord our righteousness.”
Psalm 119:172. “My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.”
19.8
Compare the purity of God and of the Law.
1 John 3:2, 3. “2Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.”
Psalm 19:8. “The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.”
19.9
Compare the spirituality of God and of the Law.
1 Corinthians 10:4. “And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that rock was Christ.”
Romans 7:14. “For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.”
19.10
Compare the faithfulness of God and of the Law.
1 Corinthians 1:9. “God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord”
Psalm 119:86. “All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.”
19.11
Compare the unchangeableness of God and of the Law.
Malachi 3:6. “For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.”
Hebrews 13:8. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”
Matthew 5:18. “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”
19.12
Compare the lifespan of God and of the Law.
Revelation 5:14. “And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.”
Psalm 111:7, 8. “The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure. They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.”
The Law and Eternal Life
20.1
Who has the right to enter the New Jerusalem?
Revelation 22:14. “Blessed are they that do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”
20.2
Who will enter into life?
Matthew 19:16, 17. “16And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? 17And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.”
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Scriptures taken from the King James Version.