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NEW - 2008 - NEW
The "National Sunday Law" by Jan Marcussen is now on this web site. All seven chapters are ready to read and copy if you would like to.
This amazing book revealing fulfilled prophecies and future prophecies soon to be fulfilled has been printed in numerous languages and is being circulated around the world.
The Mark of the Beast is revealed as it is declared in scripture. The Anti-Christ is not future, Anti-Christ is here, NOW. Learn what Satan does not want you to know. Click the graphic to the left.
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Study #2 - God's Moral Law - The
TEN COMMMANDMENTS - Page 2 of 2
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Questions Concerning Common False Teachings
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A. Doesn't the Bible say the law was or is faulty?
Answer. No. The Bible says the PEOPLE are faulty. Hebrews 8:8 "Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—". In Romans 8:3 "For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,"
The law was "weak through the FLESH." It's always the same story, the law is PERFECT, the people are faulty or weak. God gave His Son to live within His people, "That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled within us" Rom 8:4 through the indwelling Christ.
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Redeemed from the curse of the law?
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B. Galatians 3:13 "13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)" says we are redeemed from the curse of the law. Explain this!
Answer. The curse of the law is death. Romans 6:23 "23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Because of Adam we will all die the first death. (Except the translated ones at the second coming). But the unforgiven sinner must die the "second death" (Rev 20:14,15 "14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.") for his/her own sins thereby paying the death penalty required. But Christ paid the "second death" penalty for all of mankind, Hebrews 2:9 "9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone."
He redeemed mankind from the curse (death) and in it's place provided the means for all to have eternal life. It is sad to see how few will accept this provision of God. John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world (fallen man) that He gave His only begotten Son (Salvation is a gift), that whosoever (the invitation to accept is extended to all) believeth in Him (believers are obedient to God's law), shall not perish (lost sinners will die the second death), but have eternal life (Only the saved will inherit eternal life, all sinners will be eradicated from existence). The subject of the lost buring forever in hell is a doctrine of Satan and totally misrepresents the true and loving character of God. It is true that the lost will burn for a period of time, but they will die the second death. We will cover this Babylonish (confusion) doctrine at a later time. It's part of the wine of Babylon that has made the Christian world drunk.
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God's Law Ended at the Cross?
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C. Doesn't Colossians 2: 14-17 and Ephesians 2:15 teach that God's law ended at the cross?
"14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. 16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ." "15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,"
Answer. No! These passages both refer to the law containing ordinances. This definitely was the law of Moses, which was a law governing the sacrificial system and the priesthood. There were many laws governing ceremony, especially in regards to meat and drink offerings. There were a number of ceremonial Sabbaths. All these ceremonies pointed forward to the cross. They were no longer necessary after the cross. But Paul spoke of God's law as "holy, just and good" many years after the cross. Romans 7:7,12 "7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” 12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good."
It is important to be sure which law Paul is speaking about. The clue is usually in the chapter your reading. He is clear about Moses law ending and God's law being firmly established.
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Two Commands Replace the Ten?
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D. The Bible says, "Love is the fulfilling of the law." Romans 13:10. And in Matthew 22:37-39 It commands us to love God and our neighbor. "37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’" Don't these two commands replace the ten?
Answer. No. If you read verse 40, Jesus said "On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." The ten commandments hang from these two just as our ten fingers hang from our two arms. They are inseparable. Love to God makes keeping the first four commandments a pleasure, and love to our neighbor makes keeping the last six a joy. Read John 14:15 "15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments."; 1 John 5:3 "3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome." and 1 John 2:4 "4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him." It is impossible to love the Lord and not keep His ten commandments.
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Engraven Law Done Away With?
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E. Doesn't 2 Corinthians 3:7 teach that the law written and engraven on stones was "to be done away"? "7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away,"
Answer. The passage says that the "glory of Moses" ministration of the law was to be done away, but not the law. Read carefully 2 Corinthians 3:7-9 "7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory."
The subject is not the doing away with the law or its establishment, but rather the change of the location of the law from "tables of stone" to the "tables of the heart". Under Moses ministration the law was on stone. Under the Holy Spirit's ministration, through Christ, the same law is written on the heart. Hebrews 8:10. "10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."
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Christ, the End of the Law?
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F. Romans 10:4 says that Christ is the "end of the law". "4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes." So it has ended hasn't it?
Answer. "End" in this verse comes from the Greek word "telos" which means the "point of" or "purpose of" or "object of". The meaning is clear. To lead men to Christ where they find that righteousness is the point, object, purpose or end of the law. Jesus Himself said that heaven and earth would pass before one jot or tittle would pass from the law. Matthew 5:18. "18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled."
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Why is the law ignored by so many?
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G. Why do so many people deny the binding claims of the law?
Answer. Read Romans 8:7-9. "7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His."
The carnal mind hates God's law and feels that they are not subject to it.
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H. Were the righteous people of the Old Testament saved by the law?
Answer. No one has ever been saved by the law. Everyone in every age has been saved by grace. Grace was given to us by Christ Jesus before the world began. 2 Tim 1:9 "9 who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began," The law has always had one function and that was to point out sin. Christ alone can save. Noah found grace. Genesis 6:8. Moses found grace. Exodus 33:17. The Israelites in the wilderness found grace. Jeremiah 31:2. Abel, Enoch, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and many other Old Testament worthies were saved by "faith" according to Hebrews chapter 11. They were saved by looking forward to the cross. We are saved by looking back to it. The law is necessary to point out sin. Like a mirror it shows our spiritual dirt. Without it men are sinners and are not aware of it. But the law never had any saving power. It is like the sign that says "Thin ice, no skating today". It did it's job. It pointed out danger. The sign can not save the careless person who ignored the warning and ventured out on the ice, falling in under his weight. The 10 commandments can't save, they can only tell us we sinned and need a savior. It is Jesus and He alone who can save a person from sin. Acts 4:12. "12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
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I. Why worry about the law? Isn't conscience a safe guide?
Answer. A thousand times NO! The Bible speaks of an evil conscience, a defiled conscience and a seared conscience, none of which are safe. Proverbs 28:26 "26 He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, But whoever walks wisely will be delivered."
The Bible, including God's law is our only safety. Isaiah 8:20 "20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them."
Neither should our faith be founded on feelings. Our only safe course of direction is to establish our faith on Biblical fact, then feelings will be grounded in truth.
Three men were walking on a wall, Feeling, Faith and Fact,
Then Feeling had an awful fall, And faith was taken back.
So close was Faith to Feeling, He stumbled and fell too.
But Fact remained and pulled Faith back, And Faith brought Feelings too.
"Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat in the seat of the scornful, But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night." Psalm 1: 1,2
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Our Next Study - The Beast of Daniel 7
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Because Satan and the Beast power have attacked God's law, the Ten Commandments, and it was prophesied so, it was both important and necessary to have that as our second study. We are now ready to identify the Beast Power of Daniel 7, which will be the same Beast Power of Revelation 13. There are 9 points of identification that make it impossible to be any other power. And from that power comes the Mark of the Beast.
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