101 THE LAW
101 THE LAW
The laws here in Canada, once they are empowered by legislature, are part of the law of our land and cannot be changed or negated except by another act of legislature. This is the same with God’s law; it cannot be changed or negated except by God.
Many have said that the old laws of God no longer apply to us today because Jesus gave us a new covenant but a new covenant is not a new law. Jesus has made a new agreement with us, His disciples, based on mercy and not conducts.
The Old Testament animal sacrifice was to show God that they were sorry for their sins and that they were willing, as animal lovers, to pay the price to obtain God’s forgiveness.
The animal sacrifice did not give them forgiveness; their willingness to give up something that they wanted and cherished, for God, obtained them forgiveness.
The rest of the law they were expected to keep as a continuance to obey the God that they said, by their actions, that they loved. The law of God is for the good of God, society and mankind; which good is the responsibility of every human being to work at keeping.
Jesus, our master, did not do away with the Old Testament law of God but, rather, He fulfilled that law to God, His father’s expectation. By doing this, His father gave Him the kingship of all of His, God’s, creation so that everyone in God’s kingdom must accept and acknowledge that Jesus is their king and master or they just won’t be there.
That’s God’s requirement and He expects us to know and obey that requirement or just not expect to end up in heaven. He is taking every available avenue to get this truth to every human being on this earth; He has His word published worldwide, He has His servants telling and showing everyone that they come in contact with and He will even send one or more of His angels to make this truth known to someone who wants to know the truth.
Jesus showed us that only love can fulfill God’s law; love for God first, love for Him second, as God’s son, and love for each other. This love keeps us telling others about God, Jesus and God’s mercy even when they don’t want to hear it and get angry with us because we know, and they don’t, that it is really for their good and God’s increase for us to continue and not for our own gain.
No one can say that they love God and/or Jesus and not keep the law that God gave in the beginning. All the law is to show God how much we love Him and is good for our mental and physical health. The only part that is not there now is the animal blood sacrifice which is the part that Jesus took on because we were confusing it as a ritual that we were supposed to obey instead of a personal sacrifice that we had to give up willingly.
Jesus, our master, will not expect anyone, who is not able, to keep the whole law of God even though that is what is required and expected; He will expect us to keep obeying each part that He introduces to us, when He introduces it to us because when He sees that we have progressed far enough to handle more, He will give us more to obey.
As our master, He will expect us to do the same things that He does, which is to please His father by obeying Him; showing God that we love Him and that we love and want to honour our master, Jesus, His son, by our obedience to Him.
Love willingly fulfills all of God’s requirements just to be with Him; the rewards are nice but secondary.
