GOD SUMMONS THE NATIONS AND THEIR IDOLS TO COURT – Isaiah 41
Here the call for silence opens the imaginary proceedings of a court, where God will face the heathen world with a test question.
Category: Law
THE OLD TESTAMENT WITNESSES OF JESUS CHRIST – Romans 3:21
The verbal prophecies, numbering some 333, foretold the coming of the Messiah in such detail and clarity that hardly any phase of our Lord’s life and character was omitted.
THE SIX TRIALS OF JESUS CHRIST – Matthew 26 + 27
Christ was tried six times, three times before the Romans and three times before the Jewish tribunals.
THE GREAT INVITATION – Matthew 11
Christ was more than a man, and every line of the New Testament emphasizes this transcendent fact.
WINDOWS OPEN TOWARD JERUSALEM – Daniel 6
This habit of praying toward a particular point has been maintained till this day by the Muslims who pray in the direction of Mecca.
THE LAW OF CHRIST
The notion that Christianity has a looser moral code than Judaism is ridiculous; and yet that is precisely the understanding some have regarding the wonderful “freedom in Christ.” Such is a fatal delusion.
THE TENTH COMMANDMENT –
THOU SHALT NOT COVET – Exodus 20
The 10th commandment is the most comprehensive of the commandments, forbidding ALL unlawful desire of every kind.
THE NINTH COMMANDMENT –
THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOR – Exodus 20
The imagination of men is involved in the violation of this commandment, because, if one does not tell the truth, the imagination is the only source of what he does tell.
THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT –
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL – Exodus 20
Frequently, the human family have attempted to get rid of private property and to inaugurate some form of communal living, but thousands of years of experience have demonstrated invariably the futility and failure of all such systems.
THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT –
THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY – Exodus 20
As in most of the others, with regard to committing adultery, GOD did not give a reason for this prohibition. NONE WAS NEEDED.
THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT –
HONOR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER – Exodus 20
Our very civilization today is under attack by all the forces of evil, and the home is primarily the focus of that attack. The beginning of all law and order lies right here in Commandment V. The home is the place where the young human must learn to accept and honor authority. And if he does not do so in the home, he becomes a troublemaker in school, and soon graduates to the police court.
THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT –
REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY – Exodus 20
the Bible extols and honors the glory of the workman.
THE THIRD COMMANDMENT –
THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN – Exodus 20
Salvation itself is accomplished in the power of the glorious name of GOD. “Neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
THE FIRST COMMANDMENT –
THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME – Exodus 20
The arrogant and atheistic dictum of humanists to the effect that, modern science makes unacceptable any supernatural or cosmic guarantees of human values, deifies man himself and places within wicked and fallible men the source of all authority.
THE DECALOGUE – THE TEN COMMANDMENTS – THE CODE OF HAMMURABI – Exodus 20
Christ came not to destroy but to fulfill the Law (Matthew 5:17), and yet, “He took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross” (Colossians 2:14).
THE VALUE OF MOSES’ LAW – 1 Timothy 1
Paul flatly declared that Christians are “dead to the law by the body of Christ” (Romans 7:4), this having reference, of course, to all requirements of the law in their totality.
WHY THE 4TH OF JULY? 2022 EDITION
The Declaration of Independence! On this, Our day of Independence, July 4th 1776
We honor of the wise and brilliant men who, with the power of words and inspired writing, broke the inhumane shackles of Tyranny! – ELGardner
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”