When Man'S Law Conflicts With God'S Law?

When Man’S Law Conflicts With God’S Law?

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Over the last two days in A Short Prepper Civics Lesson and in The Future of America. I have detailed that the founders stated what our God given rights are. I have also given some possible scenarios where those rights may be restricted, if not completely taken away.

How then should a Christian respond? Romans 13:1 A few years back I decided to read one chapter of the Bible every morning.
There were some things I didn’t understand.
I spent some time researching them.
One of them was Romans 13:1.
This verse differs greatly depending on the version of the Bible you have.

I’ll post two. King James: “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.” Many other versions are similar to this NIV version: “Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established.

The authorities that exist have been established by God.” The reason this was difficult for me is that there have been some truly awful governing authorities throughout history. I questioned whether a loving God would want us to subject ourselves to their authority. Like I said, this didn’t make sense.

On a side note, there have been bad governments that have used this verse to keep Christians in line, claiming your God tells you to submit. I did a bit of digging and thinking and found an article called Spiritual Authority and Romans 13, I don’t agree with everything the author says but he does make it clear that Paul was not telling us to be subject to the worlds authority, that we were to be subjected to our spiritual authorities.

That made this verse more clear for me, as some of man’s laws absolutely contradict Gods law.
But let’s say that the verse actually means that we should submit to government.
Does that mean even when it goes against God’s law? God’s law vs.
Man’s Law As a general rule, Christians make excellent citizens.

By living as Christ did and loving our neighbor as ourselves, we tend to stay out of trouble. There are many times when man’s laws and God’s laws are the same. For example, many of our current laws are based off of the Ten Commandments. Until recently, they were displayed in many court rooms across the country.

In some places they still are. There are times when there is a law that man uses to infringe upon our Christian liberties, such as taking a cross down from a national park or a city stopping a church from ringing a bell. At times like these I am reminded of Mathew 5:41: “If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.” When a Roman soldier would ask a Jew for directions, Jews would often give them the wrong ones.

To stop this, a law was created that said when a Roman soldier asked for directions, the Jew had to walk with him for the first mile. When our Christian Liberties are infringed upon, I think we should still make a stand, do battle in courts, protest or by other means voice opposition.

But in the end, I think, since it does not go against Gods law, we must accept it and “walk the second mile”.
But then there are times when man’s law absolutely goes against God’s law.
What should we do then? Following are a few examples of when God’s people rebelled against man’s law and followed Gods.

Daniel 1:8 King Nebuchadnezzar has requested among others that, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah be put in his service. They are given wine and fancy foods to eat. Daniel and company refused to defile themselves with the royal foods and asked to be allowed to eat just fruit and vegetables for ten days.

Daniel 3:1 This is the story of King Nebuchadnezzar building a 90 foot tall statue of gold and demanding that everyone bow and worship it.
When Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused, they were thrown into the furnace.
Daniel 6:7 There is a law passed that anyone who prays to any god or man for the next 30 days would be thrown into the lion’s den.

Daniel prays to God and is thrown into the den. Esther 4:11- 7:3 It is forbidden to enter the kings chambers without invitation. Violation of this is punishable by death. Esther enters and is welcomed by the king. She later asks for her people to be spared and the king grants her request.

Mathew 2:16 King Herod orders the murder of all male children, aged two and younger. Joseph and Mary flee to Egypt. John9:19 Jesus tells Pontius Pilate he has no authority over Him, essentially saying God is permitting Christ’s death. The book of Acts There are many examples of the Sanhedrin telling the 12 apostles to stop preaching about Christ.

These are just some examples I was able to find. Thank you to Mike for the assistance. God’s law should trump man’s law every time. There is almost always a cost; loss of reputation, financial penalty and, for some, even to this day, martyrdom. When man’s law contradicts Gods law, how you respond is between you and God.

What does the Bible say about man’s law vs God’s law?

God’s Law Versus Man’s Law What happens when the teaching of the Bible-to feed the hungry and house the homeless-clashes with the laws of modern government, which sometimes prohibit those acts, as happened with the Rev. Wiley S. Drake in Buena Park? The Times Orange County asked local pastors to discuss the dilemma of following both the laws of God and man.

The Rev. Norbert Oesch, 57, pastor, St.
John’s Lutheran Church in Orange: “The first thing is we are to honor the laws of the land, insofar as that it is possible, and to the clearest extent we can.
That is very clear in Romans 13 where St.
Paul says that all authority comes from God.
There are exceptions and that is when the laws of the land would command us to violate the higher laws of God.

And so there have been many times from the beginning where godly people say, ‘I cannot obey you.’ You must obey God rather than man. “In America, one challenges the law by breaking it and going to court to challenge it. However, the person must be willing to take the consequences and that happens to be in line with the way our own system of government is set up.

Any citizen can.
What I pray is that out of this comes better law, if necessary, and greater cooperation between churches, the business community and government that shows mercy and justice balanced.” * Father Kenneth Krause, 61, pastor, Our Lady of Mt.
Carmel, a Roman Catholic church in Newport Beach: “I think the city and the county have the right to determine policy.

I wish we could get together and maybe have some kind of shelter that is staffed and maintained by the city and churches so that we’d have a place to send folks that is clean and safe. “The other side of the coin is we use so much money on different things, we should really consider money for housing, or at least overnight shelter, for transients.

I think we can say we should follow the biblical mandate and there is a time and place and way to do it. I am giving the Catholic church credit; going back centuries we built hospitals, we built shelters and we built homes. We took prostitutes off the street. Today is no exception. “You have to give credit.

His motive sure seems right. His reasons and his heart are certainly in the right place. If those two can get together, they will accomplish something.” * The Rev. Kathryn McCullough, 54, pastor at the Mission Church, a nondenominational Christian church in Lake Forest, city councilwoman in Lake Forest and director of the Adopt-a-Neighbor food bank in Mission Viejo: “I believe that we have an obligation as men and women of God, especially clergymen, that we have to obey God’s law and then man’s law.

If we feel man’s law is in the way, we have policies in place to change the law, to make new laws.
As a Christian I don’t believe that I am a good example for other Christians unless I am a good neighbor.
You cannot speak for Pastor Drake.
You can challenge the law and you can make new law, even the Constitution.

If we don’t believe man’s law, then there are places we can change it. “You have to be respectful of your neighbors, that’s part of God’s word also. If you’re going to do it, you have to make sure you’re not offensive to your neighbors, and yes God told us to feed the poor, the prisoners.

What is the relationship between natural law and God?

Natural and Human Law – Thomas Aquinas, much like Aristotle, wrote that nature is organized for good purposes. Unlike Aristotle, however, Aquinas went on to say that God created nature and rules the world by “divine reason.” Aquinas described four kinds of law.

Eternal law was God’s perfect plan, not fully knowable to humans.
It determined the way things such as animals and planets behaved and how people should behave.
Divine law, primarily from the Bible, guided individuals beyond the world to “eternal happiness” in what St.
Augustine had called the “City of God.” Aquinas wrote most extensively about natural law,

He stated, “the light of reason is placed by nature in every man to guide him in his acts.” Therefore, human beings, alone among God’s creatures, use reason to lead their lives. This is natural law. The master principle of natural law, wrote Aquinas, was that “good is to be done and pursued and evil avoided.” Aquinas stated that reason reveals particular natural laws that are good for humans such as self-preservation, marriage and family, and the desire to know God.

Reason, he taught, also enables humans to understand things that are evil such as adultery, suicide, and lying.
While natural law applied to all humans and was unchanging, human law could vary with time, place, and circumstance.
Aquinas defined this last type of law as “an ordinance of reason for the common good” made and enforced by a ruler or government.

He warned, however, that people were not bound to obey laws made by humans that conflicted with natural law.

What are the three types of God’s law?

Catholic – Theologian Thomas Aquinas explained that there are three types of biblical precepts: moral, ceremonial, and judicial. He holds that moral precepts are permanent, having held even before the Law was given, since they are part of the law of nature, Ceremonial precepts (the “ceremonial law”, dealing with forms of worshipping God and with ritual cleanness ) and judicial precepts (such as those in Exodus 21 ) came into existence only with the Law of Moses and were only temporary.

The ceremonial commands were “ordained to the Divine worship for that particular time and to the foreshadowing of Christ “.
Accordingly, upon the coming of Christ they ceased to bind, and to observe them now would, Aquinas thought, be equivalent to declaring falsely that Christ has not yet come, for Christians a mortal sin,

However, while the judicial laws ceased to bind with the advent of Christ, it was not a mortal sin to enforce them. Aquinas says, “if a sovereign were to order these judicial precepts to be observed in his kingdom, he would not sin.” Although Aquinas believed the specifics of the Old Testament judicial laws were no longer binding, he taught that the judicial precepts contained universal principles of justice that reflected natural law.

Thus some scholars refer to his views on government as “General Equity Theonomy.” Unlike the ceremonial and judicial precepts, moral commands continue to bind, and are summed up in the Ten Commandments (though the assigning of the weekly holiday to Saturday is ceremonial). The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “2068 The Council of Trent teaches that the Ten Commandments are obligatory for Christians and that the justified man is still bound to keep them; the Second Vatican Council confirms: ‘The bishops, successors of the apostles, receive from the Lord the mission of teaching all peoples, and of preaching the Gospel to every creature, so that all men may attain salvation through faith, Baptism and the observance of the Commandments.'” 2070.

The Ten Commandments belong to God’s revelation. At the same time they teach us the true humanity of man. They bring to light the essential duties, and therefore, indirectly, the fundamental rights inherent in the nature of the human person. The Decalogue contains a privileged expression of the natural law: “From the beginning, God had implanted in the heart of man the precepts of the natural law.

Then he was content to remind him of them. This was the Decalogue” ( St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres.4, 15, 1: PG 7/1, 1012).2072. Since they express man’s fundamental duties towards God and towards his neighbour, the Ten Commandments reveal, in their primordial content, grave obligations. They are fundamentally immutable, and they oblige always and everywhere.

No one can dispense from them. The Ten Commandments are engraved by God in the human heart. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that the Apostles instituted the religious celebration of Sunday without transferring to it the ceremonial obligations associated with the Jewish Sabbath, although later some of these obligations became attached to Sunday, not without opposition within the Church.

Where in the Bible does it talk about breaking the law?

Is breaking the law always sinful? – Scripture gives a nuanced picture of government. And it presents Christians with a challenge to keep governments in their proper role. Jesus refuses to condemn Roman taxation and says people have a responsibility to give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar (Matthew 22:5-22).

Both Peter and Paul refer to the government as a legitimate authority in the lives of Christians. Romans 13:1-7, which has generated discussion of late, and 1 Peter 2:13-17 say the government has a God-given authority to punish those who break the law and are due honor and respect from the Christian.

Yet Christians above all people should recognize the government is not infallible, as it is made up of fallible humans and has made significant mistakes in the past. In fact, Christians worship One who was unjustly put to death by the government. In the CSB Worldview Study Bible, David Weeks writes, “Every civic institution, social structure, and economic system will be exploited by those tainted by iniquity.” He says the challenge for Christians is “empowering the government to do what they are capable of doing—preserving order and securing justice—while restraining them from doing what they cannot do well or should not do at all.” After being told to stop speaking about Jesus, Peter and John tell the religious leaders, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide; for we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.” When Peter and the other apostles are brought before the Sanhedrin and commanded to stop speaking the name of Jesus, they respond in Acts 5:29, “We must obey God rather than human beings!” In the Old Testament, Daniel and his friends are directly challenged with following God’s laws or the commands of the Babylon government.

They politely, but firmly, rebel against the unjust laws and choose God over the government.
There can be no doubt that if Jesus were placed in a situation where He had to choose between obeying the laws of a nation and the commands of God, He would follow His Father, break the law, and remain completely sinless.

Weeks asserts that Christians are called to “embrace a higher law tradition.” The moral law, which God has placed on our hearts, should play a role in Christians’ urging nations to live up to that higher standard when they fail to do so. “The wise leader and the faithful citizen seek both the common good and the greatest good while keeping in mind human depravity, the vagaries of life, and the complexity of the human heart,” Weeks writes.

What is the difference between divine law and man made law?

Human law is concerned with the really existing individual as a member of the family or people. Divine law is concerned with the same person insofar as he is beyond reality (Wirklichkeit.)

What are the two laws of God?

Two Great Commandments October 2019 general conference We must try to keep both of the great commandments. To do so, we walk a fine line between law and love. My dear sisters in the gospel of Jesus Christ, I greet you as divinely assigned guardians of the eternal family.

President Russell M.
Nelson has taught us, “This Church was restored so that families could be formed, sealed, and exalted eternally.” That teaching has important implications for persons who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, commonly referred to as LGBT.
President Nelson has also reminded us that we don’t “have to agree with each other to love each other.” These prophetic teachings are important for family discussions to answer the questions of children and youth.

I have prayerfully sought inspiration to speak to this audience because you are uniquely affected by these questions, which directly or indirectly affect every family in the Church.

I begin with what Jesus taught were the two great commandments.
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
“This is the first and great commandment.
“And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

This means we are commanded to love everyone, since Jesus’s parable of the good Samaritan teaches that everyone is our neighbor. But our zeal to keep this second commandment must not cause us to forget the first, to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind.

We show that love by “keep commandments.” God requires us to obey His commandments because only through that obedience, including repentance, can we return to live in His presence and become perfect as He is.
In his recent talk to the young adults of the Church, President Russell M.
Nelson spoke of what he called the “strong connection between God’s love and His laws.” The laws that apply most significantly to the issues relating to those identifying as LGBT are God’s law of marriage and its companion law of chastity.

Both are essential in our Father in Heaven’s plan of salvation for His children. As President Nelson taught, “God’s laws are motivated entirely by His infinite love for us and His desire for us to become all we can become.” President Nelson taught: “Many countries have legalized same-sex marriage.

As members of the Church, we respect the laws of the land, including civil marriage. The truth is, however, that in the beginning marriage was ordained by God! And to this day it is defined by Him as being between a man and a woman. God has not changed His definition of marriage.” President Nelson continued: “God has also not changed His law of chastity.

Requirements to enter the temple have not changed.” President Nelson reminded all of us that “our commission as Apostles is to teach nothing but truth. That commission does not give the authority to modify divine law.” Thus, my sisters, the leaders of the Church must always teach the unique importance of marriage between a man and a woman and the related law of chastity.

The work of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is ultimately concerned with preparing the children of God for the celestial kingdom, and most particularly for its highest glory, exaltation or eternal life. That highest destiny is possible only through marriage for eternity. Eternal life includes the creative powers inherent in the combination of male and female—what modern revelation describes as the “continuation of the seeds forever and ever.” In his talk to young adults, President Nelson taught, “Abiding by God’s laws will keep you safe as you progress toward eventual exaltation”—that is, to become like God, with the exalted life and divine potential of our Heavenly Parents.

That is the destiny we desire for all we love. Because of that love, we cannot let our love supersede the commandments and the plan and work of God, which we know will bring those we love their greatest happiness. But there are many we love, including some who have the restored gospel, who do not believe in or choose not to follow God’s commandments about marriage and the law of chastity.

What about them? God’s doctrine shows that all of us are His children and that He has created us to have joy.
Modern revelation teaches that God has provided a plan for a mortal experience in which all can choose obedience to seek His highest blessings or make choices that lead to one of the less glorious kingdoms.

Because of God’s great love for all of His children, those lesser kingdoms are still more wonderful than mortals can comprehend. The Atonement of Jesus Christ makes all of this possible, as He “glorifies the Father, and saves all the works of his hands.

” I have spoken of the first commandment, but what of the second? How do we keep the commandment to love our neighbors? We seek to persuade our members that those who follow lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender teachings and actions should be treated with the love our Savior commands us to show toward all our neighbors.

Thus, when same-sex marriage was declared legal in the United States, the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve declared: “The gospel of Jesus Christ teaches us to love and treat all people with kindness and civility—even when we disagree. We affirm that those who avail themselves of laws or court rulings authorizing same-sex marriage should not be treated disrespectfully.” Further, we must never persecute those who do not share our beliefs and commitments.

Regretfully, some persons facing these issues continue to feel marginalized and rejected by some members and leaders in our families, wards, and stakes.
We must all strive to be kinder and more civil.
For reasons we do not understand, we have different challenges in our mortal experiences.
But we do know that God will help each of us overcome these challenges if we sincerely seek His help.

After suffering and repenting for violations of laws we have been taught, we are all destined for a kingdom of glory. The ultimate and final judgment will be by the Lord, who alone has the required knowledge, wisdom, and grace to judge each of us. Meanwhile, we must try to keep both of the great commandments.

To do so, we walk a fine line between law and love—keeping the commandments and walking the covenant path, while loving our neighbors along the way. This walk requires us to seek divine inspiration on what to support and what to oppose and how to love and listen respectfully and teach in the process.

Our walk demands that we not compromise on commandments but show forth a full measure of understanding and love. Our walk must be considerate of children who are uncertain about their sexual orientation, but it discourages premature labeling because, in most children, such uncertainty decreases significantly over time.

Our walk opposes recruitment away from the covenant path, and it denies support to any who lead people away from the Lord.
In all of this we remember that God promises hope and ultimate joy and blessings for all who keep His commandments.
Mothers and fathers and all of us are responsible to teach both of the two great commandments.

For the women of the Church, President Spencer W. Kimball described that duty in this great prophecy: “Much of the major growth that is coming to the Church in the last days will come because many of the good women of the world will be drawn to the Church in large numbers.

This will happen to the degree that the women of the Church reflect righteousness and articulateness in their lives and to the degree that the women of the Church are seen as distinct and different from the women of the world.
Thus it will be that female exemplars of the Church will be a significant force in both the numerical and the spiritual growth of the Church in the last days.” Speaking of that prophecy, President Russell M.

Nelson declared that “the day that President Kimball foresaw is today. You are the women he foresaw!” Little did we who heard that prophecy 40 years ago realize that among those the women of this Church may save will be their own dear friends and family who are currently influenced by worldly priorities and devilish distortions.

Russell M. Nelson, “,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov.2008, 93.
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Russell M. Nelson, remarks at the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Detroit, Michigan, July 21, 2019.
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See, for example, Michelle Forcier, “Adolescent Sexuality,” UpToDate, June 3, 2019, uptodate.com/contents/adolescent-sexuality.
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: Two Great Commandments

Is natural law the same as God’s law?

Photo by Giammarco Boscaro on Unsplash “Law is an ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the one who is in charge of the community” (St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-II, 90, 4; CCC 1976). Law is primarily a reasonable plan of action, “a certain rule and measure of acts whereby man is induced to act or is restrained from acting” (S.t., 1–2, q.90, aa.1, 3; S.c.g., 3, 114).

Eternal Law is the Divine Wisdom of God which oversees the common good and governs everything.
Eternal law is God’s plan to lead all creation towards God’s eternal salvific plan to be holy and blameless before Him through Jesus Christ (Ephesians 1:4–5),
God, as “Being-itself”, is able to promulgate such a law as God the Creator’s reason is also perfect wisdom.

Everything in nature reflects the Eternal Law in their own natures (S.T. I-IIae, 91, 2), Things act according to their nature, so they derive their proper ends (final cause) according to the law written into their nature. Divine Law is the historical laws of Scripture given to us through God’s self-revelation.

Divine law is divided into the Old Law and the New Law, which correspond to the Old and New Testaments of the Bible (q91, a5).
The Old Law, revealed by God to Moses, “is the first stage of revealed Law.
Its moral prescriptions are summed up in the Ten Commandments” (CCC 1962).
It has an extrinsic focus — motivated by fear — and promises earthly rewards (such as social peace).

It expresses immediate conclusions of the natural moral law. The New Law perfects the Old Law. The New Law, through the teachings of Jesus — commands internal conduct — and reaches us by divine love — promising love and heavenly reward, The New Law “is the Holy Spirit given through faith in Christ, which heals and is expressed through love.” It gives interior strength to achieve what it teaches.

It is also a written law found in Christ’s teachings (in the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, etc.) and in the moral catechesis of the apostles, summed up in the commandment of love.
Natural Law is “the rational creature’s participation in the eternal law” (ST I-II, Q.91, A.2.).
The highest norm of human life is the divine law — eternal, objective, and universal — whereby God governs us according to His wisdom and love.

God makes Man a sharer in His law so Man can recognize the unchanging truth” (DH 3), The natural law “hinges upon the desire for God and submission to Him, as well as upon the sense that the other is one’s equal” (CCC 1955). It is “natural” as it consists of Reason given to us by the “higher reason” of the divine Lawgiver.

They are natural as they are objective principles which originate in human nature (GS 16; DH 14). The natural law is universal because it encompasses every person, of every epoch (cf. CCC 1956): “it is immutable and permanent throughout history; the rules that express it remain substantially valid” (CCC 1958).

Every man is bound to live by his rational nature, guided by reason, The natural law expresses the dignity of the person and determines the basis for his fundamental rights and duties (CCC 1956, 1978). The first principle of the natural law is “good is to be done and pursued, and evil avoided” (q94, a2, p.47; CCC 1954).

All other precepts of natural law rest upon this. The Church, through its Magisterium, is the authentic interpreter of the natural law (cf. CCC 2036). Since mankind is subject to sin, grace and Revelation are necessary for moral truths to be known “by everyone with facility, with certainty and no error.” Human Law is the interpretation of natural law in different contexts (ST II.I.95–97).

Natural law is a foundation for moral and civil law. Government laws are dictates of practical reason from the precepts of Natural Law, Law is not about individual morality. Individual vices should be legislated against when they threaten harm to others.

Rulers of the State should take the general moral precepts of nature and specify them into State laws, e.g., the repugnance of murder is legislated into punishments, Hierarchy of Law For Aquinas, human laws are derived from natural law which is a participation in the eternal law. Therefore, eternal law is at the top, followed by natural law, and then human law.

Divine law is the revealed law of God to man, while natural law is the imprint of eternal law on the hearts of men, http://opusdei.org/en-us/article/topic-26-freedom-law-and-conscience/ http://www.aquinasonline.com/Topics/natlaw.html https://people.wku.edu/jan.garrett/302/aquinlaw.htm https://people.wku.edu/jan.garrett/302/aquinlaw.htm Cf.

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What is the relationship between the law and Jesus?

Video Notes: Here is the difference between Jesus and the law: The law tells you what to do, but it can’t give you the power to do it. Jesus tells you what to do, and he gives you the power to do it. That is where strength, hope, and faith begin. It begins because the Son of God has come. When Man So, how did God do what the law could not do? He did it “by sending his own Son” What did the Son of God do, that would forgive past sins and empower future obedience?

“He condemned sin in the flesh” (Romans 8:3). By dying on the cross, where his flesh was torn and his blood was shed, Jesus Christ made provision for all of our past sins.But it does not end there. He rose from the dead, and as the living Lord and the ascended Savior, he works by his Holy Spirit to give strength, hope, and faith.He did all this “in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit” (Romans 8:3-4).

I was reading this week about a woman who endured a long period of darkness and depression. When, by God’s grace, she finally got relief, this was her testimony: “I realized after all these years that I was looking to find in myself what I needed to find in him.” The good news for the person without strength, without hope, and without faith today is that it does not lie in you.

It lies in Jesus.
There is a Savior who can be trusted, and in him there is hope and there is strength for you.
These are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name” (John 20:31).
There is a Savior whose Word brings strength to the powerless, hope to the hopeless, and faith to the faithless.

May his Word bring new strength, new hope, and new faith to all of us today. Taken from Pastor Colin’s sermon ” He Gives Strength,” Colin Smith is the Senior Pastor of The Orchard Evangelical Free Church in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. He has authored a number of books, including Heaven, How I Got Here and Heaven, So Near – So Far,

What does God mean by the law?

The law is the Ten Commandments as given by God to Moses which have been summed under two by Christ: Love God with your heart, soul, mind and strength and love your neighbor as yourself. Love God and do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

What is God’s most important law?

Love your neighbor as yourself – See also: When asked what the greatest commandment is, the Christian New Testament depicts Jesus answering: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind,” before adding: “‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Most Christian denominations view these two commandments as, together, forming the core of the Christian religion.