Bible Study 14

  1. How extensive is God’s government?
    Psalms 103:19
  2. What is the rule of His kingdom?
    Psalms 103:20
    Psalms 119:142,172
    ‘The law of God is a divine law, holy, heavenly, perfect…. There is not a command too many; there is not one too few; but it is so incomparable that its perfection is a proof of its divinity…. No human lawgiver could have given forth such a law as that which we find in the decalogue.’ C H Spurgeon.
  3. Did God’s law exist on earth before it was given at Sinai?
    Compare Genesis 4:7 with 1 John 3:4
    also Genesis 35:2-4
    Genesis 26:5
    Genesis 2:1-3
    Exodus 16:1, 4-5, 27-30
  4. How was the law given?
    Deuteronomy 4:12-13
    Exodus 24:12
    Exodus 31:18
  5. What is the nature of God’s law?
    Psalm 19:7
    Proverbs 6:23
    Romans 7:12
  6. What is the relation of the law to the sinner?
    Romans 4:15
    Romans 7:6-8
    Romans 5:13
    1 John 3:4
    ‘If you love God with all your heart, you must keep the first table; and if you love your neighbour as yourself, you must keep the second table.’ – C H Spurgeon in ‘The Perpetuity of the Law.’
    ‘There is a sense in which Christians are not ‘free from the law.’ It is only when grace enables men to keep the law, that they are free from it; just as a moral man who lives according to the laws of the country is free from arrest. God has not set aside law, but He has found a way by which man can fulfil law, and so be free from it.’ – Rev G Campbell Morgan in ‘The Ten Commandments.’
  7. What is the place of the law in the Gospel?
    Romans 3:19-20, 31
    James 2:8-12
    James 1:22-25
    Romans 3:21-24, 31
    ‘There is no room for that poor evasion with which some have delighted themselves greatly; namely, that the law must pass away that the Gospel might be established.’ – Wesley’s ‘Sermons,’ Vol. 1, Sermon 25.
  8. Did Christ keep the commandments?
    Psalms 40:7-8
    Isaiah 42:21
    John 15:7-10
  9. What should be our attitude toward the law?
    John 14:21
    1 John 5:1-3
    1 John 2:4-6
    ‘These ten commandments ae not ten different laws; they are one law. If I am being held up in the air by a chain with ten links, and I break one of them, down I come, just as surely as if I break the whole ten. If I am forbidden to go out of an enclosure, it makes no difference at what point I break through the fence. ‘Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.’ The golden chain of obedience is broken if one link is missing.’ – D L Moody in ‘Weighed and Wanting.’
    ‘In the decay and confusion of all moral standards, the duty of teaching the law of righteousness as well as of declaring the Gospel of love now rests directly upon the church as it has never rested upon it before.’ – Canon Quick in ‘British Weekly.’
  10. In what way only can we obey the law?
    Romans 8:1-4