By Greg L. Bahnsen
God's legislations is Christianity's device of dominion. this can be the place any dialogue of God's legislations eventually arrives: the difficulty of dominion. wonder: who's to rule on the earth, Christ or devil? Whose fans have the ethically appropriate device of dominion, Christ's or Satan's? what's this instrument of dominion, the bibically published legislations of God, or the legislations of self-proclaimed self reliant guy? Whose observe is sovereign, God's or man's? hundreds of thousands of Christians, unfortunately, haven't famous the continued authorigy of God's legislations or its many functions to fashionable society. they've got thereby reaped the whirlwind - cultural and highbrow impotence. They implicitly have surrendered this international to the satan. they've got implicitly denied the ability of the loss of life and resurrection of Christ. they've got served as footstools for the enemies of God. yet humanism's loose journey is coming to an finish. This publication serves as an advent to this woefully ignored subject.
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The Whole Bible God expects us to submit to His every word, and not pick and choose the ones which are agreeable to our preconceived opinions. The Lord requires that we obey everything He has stipulated in the Old and New Testaments – that we “live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Matt. 4:4), Our Lord responded to the temptation of Satan with those words, quoting the Old Testament passage in 26 BY THIS STANDARD Deuteronomy 8:3 which began “All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be carefid to do” (8:1).
Hasn’t the Old Testament law been either cancelled or at least reduced in its requirements? Many professing believers are misled in the direction of these questions, despite God’s clear requirement that nothing be subtracted from His law, despite the straightforward teaching of Paul and James’ that every Old Testament scripture — even every point of the law – has a binding ethical authority in the life of the New Testament Christian. Perhaps the best place to go in Scripture to be rid of the theological inconsistency underlying a negative attitude toward the Old Testament law is to THE ENTIRE BIBLE IS TODAYIS STANDARD 27 the very words of Jesus himself on this subject, Matthew 5:17 -19..
How does one know and test what is right and wrong? Yardsticks” -for Civilization In ancient Greece and Rome the city or state was taken as the ultimate authority and yardstick in ethics. Caesar was lord over dl when moral questions were raised, Over against the totalitarian, divinized state the early church proclaimed the Lordship of Jesus Christ. The ‘ruling authorities” (Rem. 13:1) were told that “all authority in heaven and earth” resided in the resurrected Messiah (Matt. 28:18). Accordingly the apostle John portrayed the political %east” of Revelation 13 as requiring that his own name be written on men’s foreheads and hands (\w.