The Law

The Law

1 Timothy 1:8 But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully…

No one is saved by obedience to God’s law because no one can obey God’s law perfectly. Scripture says all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). So, the primary purpose of God’s law is to teach us how sinful we are and direct us to saving faith in Jesus Christ as our only means of justification. No one is justified by works of the Law, we are justified by faith because of God’s grace (Galatians 2:16). But all that leads to another question. What about civil law? What about the law of the land? Are the laws of our nation somehow connected to the law of God?

They should be.

I ran across an interesting quote a few days ago by a pastor named Erwin Lutzer. He said, “Either God is the lawgiver or man is. Either God is supreme, or the state is.” His point being that our civil laws must reflect God’s law; if they do not, then man has placed himself above God, and if people within a nation place themselves above God, God will not bless that nation.

Here in the United States our civil laws do not reflect God’s law, and that is devastating for our nation. God’s law says do not murder, yet in many of our states the law allows for the murder of unborn children. God’s law says marriage is a union between one man and one woman, but our law says men can marry men and women can marry women. God’s law says do not steal, but in many of our cities looting stores has become justifiable for certain people under certain conditions without consequence. The list of ungodly laws in this country goes on and on… But understand this; just because our government or our courts make something legal that does not make it moral. Scripture says, there is one Lawgiver (James 4:12), and when people make laws that contradict the Lawgiver, they are proclaiming themselves to be gods, and that is evil. Our civil laws must reflect God’s law because He is the only Lawgiver, and when our law reflects the Lawgiver, He will bless our nation.

Have a God Filled Week,
Brother Donnie