Post on 25-Dec-2015
God Has Rules
Rules for Living
Jeremiah 31:31-32
In the USA the crime clock shows that in 2009 there was: One murder every 31
minutes One violent crime
every 22.8 seconds One robbery every 1.2
minutes
In the USA the crime clock shows that in 2009 there was: One assault every 7.2
seconds One theft every 2.3
seconds One burglary every
9.1 seconds
In the USA the crime clock shows that in 2009 there was: One rape / sexual
assault every 2.7 minutes
One child abused every 35 seconds
One identity theft every 8.7 seconds
Hostages of Fear Many people are hostages of their fear. Many triple lock their doors, have bars on
the windows. They lock briefcase, in locked file cabinet,
in locked office, in locked building. They lock cars, desks, doors, garage,
lawnmower, bicycle, computers
What is Wrong? Many believe that:
We can’t force people to obey the law
We can’t impose our moral values on others
Why is there no clear moral standard?
Back to the BibleProblem: Our self-chosen way leads to destruction.
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
Back to the BibleSolution: Get back to the Bible
and obey it.
Psalm 119:172My tongue shall speak of Your
word, for all Your commandments are righteous.
Respect You are created in the image of God
and I owe you respect. We are all pilgrims together on our
earthly journey. We need help and respect from each other.
God’s Law is Good But we often:
Challenge God’s rules Disobey and defy them Breaking them is ALWAYS bad
for us.
Sin breaks the rules 1 John 3:4 - Whoever commits sin
also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
Romans 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
God Has Rules 3,500 years ago God gave some rules
Exodus 34:27-2827 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write
these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
God Has Rules 3,500 years ago God gave some rules The specifics were temporary
Jeremiah 31:31-3231 “Behold, the days are coming, says the
LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD.
God Has Rules 3,500 years ago God gave some rules The specifics were temporary Jesus fulfilled them
Matthew 5:17
Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
God Has Rules 3,500 years ago God gave some rules The specifics were temporary Jesus fulfilled them The principles are eternal
We need rules. Law and Love are not opposite. Legalism – rule keeping to earn
heaven Salvation is not based on legalism Salvation is based on redemption
through Jesus Christ.
John 15:10
If you keep My commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
Ephesians 2:8-9
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.
9 Not of works, lest anyone should boast.
Rules for Living God has rules. We are to know and obey the rules. Our lives would be better if we obeyed
the rules of God. Are you obeying the rules of God?