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The Lord's Day Passages (Bulletins are available the Thursday preceding the coming Lord’s Day.)
"And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment" (Luke 23: 56b).
“I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people” (Jeremiah 31:33).
Has God written His law within your heart? If He has then He is your God. If He has not then you face an eternal issue requiring your attention.
You can know if God has placed His law in your heart by the love you have for His law. If your desire is to obey God’s laws (particularly the ones affecting you most significantly), and you make the sacrifices appropriate to pursue total obedience, then He is your God. If you pick and choose the portion of God’s word you obey (thereby practicing limited obedience), then do not allow this world’s beguiler to deceive you concerning your relationship with the Lord, for you have none.
Jeremiah provides you with a fatherly portrait of God: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness” (Jer. 31:3). He also pictures God as your husband (Jer. 31:32). God represents the finest of both (Ho. 11:1-4).
God knows the days of your life. He has been with you in your exile and calls you to return from your prodigal wallowing.
Paul provides an elegant description of God’s new covenant written on the hearts of Jesus’ brothers: “You are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts” (II Cor. 3:3).
The Holy Spirit has taken the external covenant and impressed it upon your heart so that God’s law would become your lifestyle. God says, “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death” (Ro. 8:2). God’s law is becoming your new nature.
Peter describes the advantage Christians possess because the law is written in their hearts: “You have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and abiding word of God” (I Pe. 1:23). The Holy Spirit’s seal upon your heart is deathless, ageless and indestructible.
Is God’s law within you? What if your answer to that eternally significant question is, “I do not know?” What do you do if you are not sure that the Holy Spirit has inscribed your heart with His timeless stylus?
The prophet Zephaniah advises, saying, “Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth who have carried out His ordinances; seek righteousness, seek humility. Perhaps you will be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger” (Zeph. 2:3).
SOLI DEO GLORIA!
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