Writing On Hearts of Flesh
The Bible talks about or describes the law the 10 commandments as Immutable.
Immutable = Unchanging.
Deuteronomy 10:1-6 says it was place in the ark. Once place in the Ark no one could touch it, they would die if they do. It was not to be tampered with, exposure to the ark where the God of righteousness dwell would mean instant death.
It was written on tablets of stone by fingers of God Exodus 31:18.
As Adventist we more than anyone know what the Law is. We preach it, we claim that we live it. We boast about keeping it. The Sabbath the centerpiece of the law is our weapon of choice sometimes.
Oh we love this text below:
Deuteronomy 32:46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
But is Gods law more than the ten commands?
Is God’s Law more than Do’s and Don’ts?
1. The Bible says the law is about Freedom
James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
James 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
2. The Law brings about conversion.
Ps 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
A Statement:
It is the work of conversion and sanctification to reconcile men to God, by bringing them into accord with the principles of his law. In the beginning, man was created in the image of God. He was in perfect harmony with the nature and the law of God; the principles of righteousness were written upon his heart. But sin alienated him from his Maker. He no longer reflected the divine image. His heart was at war with the principles of God's law. "The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." [ROM. 8:7.] But "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son," that man might be reconciled to God. Through the merits of Christ he can be restored to harmony with his Maker. (This points us to point 3) His heart must be renewed by divine grace, he must have a new life from above. This change is the new birth, without which, says Jesus, "he cannot see the kingdom of God."
{Great Controversy 88 467.1}
3. Is the law wrapped up in Does and don’ts or a person?
Statement : The first step in reconciliation to God, is the conviction of sin. "Sin is the transgression of the law." "By the law is the knowledge of sin." [1 JOHN 3:4; ROM. 3:20.] In order to see his guilt, the sinner must test his character by God's great standard of righteousness. It is a mirror which shows the perfection of a righteous character, and enables him to discern the defects in his own. {GC88 467.2}
The law reveals to man his sins, but it provides no remedy. While it promises life to the obedient, it declares that death is the portion of the transgressor.
So every individual that is seated here today will be judged measure against the Law of God. But not saved by it. THE LAW will JUDGE us, BUT IT CANNOT SAVE!
The Bible says: Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
Fulfill means: To execute
The Bible Says:
Romans 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
What is Holy? The law.
The law is what? Just.
And what? Good
What Does “Good” mean. Strong concordance says the original world for good is ag-ath-os'
What does good mean?
There are no words to adequately describe good,
but God is good.
So if God is good then I must according the text have the Character of God? We have a better understanding of God only through His Son. So therefore we must be like Christ.
Dictionaries try to define Good as: morally excellent; virtuous; righteous.
Christ was and is morally excellent; virtuous; righteous.
So we see that the Law represents the Character of God the person and Christ came and executed the law in the flesh.
He kept all of it. Bible proof of this:
2Corinthians 3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
The learned men tried to convict Christ of breaking the law.
But they did not realize that the epitome of the law was standing before them.
This brings me to the next point.
Read with me:
Jeremiah 31:33, Zechariah 7:12, Romans 2:15, Romans 2:15, Hebrews 8:10, Hebrews 10:16
Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Zechariah 7:12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
Romans 2:15 Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
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:
Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Get the point?
God is aiming to regain the original. Remember first statement from Great controversy page 467
“the principles of righteousness were written upon his heart”
• God wants to rewrite the law on fleshy hearts.
• He wants the principles of righteousness to be a reality.
• He wants to hard wire righteousness in the heart.
• The things we do and don’t do as counted by the law will be as a result of “The law” the man Christ in us,
In other words Abstinence from sing will come as a consequence of the presence of Christ in us.
• Godly hatred for sin must be a natural desire for man.
Coming home how! Rubber hitting road
Turn with me Rev 10:7
It says:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
What 7th angel? And what is this angel sounding ?
Answer 7th angel is the trumpet sounding angels of Rev 8,9,11.
The Bible clearly shows the 7th trumpet to be the 3rd woe.
All the woes the 1st ,2nd 3rd Woe to be radical Islam
There signature is all over Rev chapter 9,11.
So if the 3rd woe which is the 7th trumpet began to sound in September 11th 2001 according to Rev 10:7 The mystery of God should be completed at the end of the sounding of 7th trumpet period. This is when an empire falls or is subdued according to history and the Rev 8,9,11 the trumpet stops sounding. Read Daniel and Revelation by Uriah Smith which further endorses these views. This was Pioneer understanding.
So God gives us a probationary time to work with, for some mystery to be completed. What is that mystery?
Turn with me to Col 1:25-28
25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God;
26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Time is running out. Is the Law the ten commandments written in your heart (heart of flesh?).Is Christ in you. If not how far off are you?
This is serious times for Adventism Judgment begins at home.
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