God's Laws Remain Very Relevant!!!

As we enter chapter 6 in the Book of Deuteronomy, there is a continued focus on God’s laws. I am led by the Spirit to point out a couple of things before we proceed, as many would think that sin is justified as long as we “repent”.

“For whoever keeps the whole Law but stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of [breaking] all of it. For He who said, ‘DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,’ also said, DO NOT MURDER.’ Now if you do not commit adultery, but you murder, you have become guilty of transgressing the [entire] Law” (James 2: 10-11, AMP).

“What shall we say [to all this]? Should we continue in sin and practice sin as a habit so that [God’s gift of] grace may increase and overflow? Certainly not! How can we, the very ones who died to sin, continue to live in it any longer? Or are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We have therefore been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory and power of the Father, we too might walk habitually in newness of life [abandoning our old ways]” (Romans 6: 1-4, AMP).

The LORD’ precepts, His truths, are our strength. “Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes, which He hath commanded thee. (The amplified version states to keep them foremost in your thoughts AND actively do them.) And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken” (Deuteronomy 6: 17-19, KJV).

God’s judgments are fulfilling faster than ever. And as scary as they are, the people of God must be rooted in Him. This is where our faith comes in, so pray in wisdom and in guidance by the Spirit. There is a deeper spiritual meaning to this, ask the Spirit for discernment in the latter, as you pray the former: “The apostles said to the LORD, ‘Increase our faith [our ability to confidently trust in God and His power]’. And the LORD said, ‘If you have [confident, abiding] faith in God [even as small] as a mustard seed, you could say to the mulberry tree [which have very strong roots], ‘Be pulled up by the roots and planted in the sea’; and [if the request was (and is!) in agreement with the will of God] it would have obeyed you” (Luke 12: 5-6, AMP).

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