“…so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.” Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs…” Nehemiah 9:25-26
We are living in perilous times! Not just a time of physical peril in view of violence, terrorism, etc., but a greater peril, the abandonment of God’s Word as the authority by which we are to live, amongst those who claim to be Christians: “Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” 2 Timothy 3:5
“Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.” 1 John 3:4 “He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” 1 John 2:4 Even though God says that the transgression of His law is sin, and the failure to keep His commandments is the abandonment of real faith in god, yet the voices continue to rise that advocate that since Christ has redeemed us and we are not under the law, that therefore God’s laws don’t really apply to us and that the transgression of His laws is not that relevant, because God looks on the heart, etc. SO THE PERILOUS TIMES ARE UPON US, in which men are justifying the casting of God’s laws behind their backs.
But even though this is what people like and flock to and justify, in the name of grace, God continues to affirm the true doctrine of grace to be: “What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? GOD FORBID.” Romans 6:15 God goes on record saying, that under no conditions, does grace, or the fact we are not under the law, mean that now it is okay to transgress God’s laws, or that since we are saved, sin is not really that big of an issue, or that it is not really that important how one lives, etc. Rather to know what God’s law says and to go ahead and do contrary to it, is willful sin, plain and simple: “For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins.” Hebrews 10:26 There is hardly anything that matches the denial of God’s authority and power any more than the justification of willful sin. This epitomizes the casting of God’s law behind their backs. This is the ultimate deceit about faith in God’s Word. This is an open declaration of war against the doctrine of repentance, which is a godly sorrow over sin (the transgression of God’s law) unto turning from sin unto faith in God as the authority on sin and righteousness.
The idea that God’s Word doesn’t really apply to us, and that it is okay to violate the terms of God’s law and what one does in the outer man is not really that important, was the grease on the slide that led to the eating of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.
SHARING
