THE LAW - REVELATION OF GOD'S CHARACTER

God's law (the ten commandments) was published, spoken, and written by those who take Israel out of Egypt, and it is Christ.

 

God's law is based on the qualities of God and there is a revelation of his character:

 

                                                       The nature of God                                   The nature of the law

 

Righteousness                                   Ps 144.17                                               Ps 118.172

LOVE                                                 1 John 4.8, 16                                        Mt 22.36-40

Holiness                                             Lev 11.44                                               Rome 7.12

Truth                                                  Psalm 30.6                                             Mal 2.6

Peace                                                John 16.33                                             Ps 118.165 , Is 48.18

Spirituality                                          John 4.24                                               Rome 7.14

Perfection                                          Mt 5.48                                                   Ps 18.8 ,  Jac 1.25

Preservation                                      Mal 2.2 , Jac 1.17                                  Ps 110.7-8,  Mt 5.17-19 , Luke 16.17

 

Obedience to the law is immutable, consonant to the will of God and his nature.

 

The law has been known for people to Sinai:

 

I. "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: let my people go" (Exodus 5.1).

II. "And how Laban went to shear the cattle his teraphim of his father" (Genesis 30.15).

III. "But Pharaoh said, who is the Lord?" (Exodus 5.2) "The land of Egypt Vienna, where you lived, did not behave" (Lev 11.4).

IV. "AND THE SEVENTH DAY HE RESTED FROM ALL HIS WORK. And blessed the SEVENTH DAY and hallowed it" (Genesis 2.3).

V. "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife"

(Gen 2.24). "When I come to thy servant, that he (the father) seeing that no lad, die" (Genesis 44.30-31).

VI. "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood laments to Me from the ground" (Genesis 4.10).

VII. "And saw her Judas and tribute her a harlot, because she closed her face" (Genesis 38.15).

VIII. "Any of the goats is not speckled and spotted sheep and black, not stolen it from me" (Genesis 30.15).

IX. "To what you said, she is my sister?" (Genesis 12.19)

X. "And saw the wife that the tree was good for food, and that it is pleasing to the eye and desired" (Genesis 3.6).