5. PSALM 1:1-2, (NIV) “ Blessed is the man…(whose) delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.”
6. PSALM 119:97, 163-68 (NRSV) “ Oh, how I love your law! It is my meditation all day long….I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law. Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous ordinances….”
7. PSALM 119:97, 163-68 (NRSV) “ Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble. I hope for your salvation, O LORD, and I fulfill your commandments. My soul keeps your decrees; I love them exceedingly. I keep your precepts and decrees, for all my ways are before you.”
33. What is “The Law?” THE TORAH (The first 5 books of theOld Testament)
34. JOSHUA 1:8-9 (NRSV) “ Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.”
37. PSALM 119:97, 163-68 (NRSV) “… .I love your LAW….I praise you for your righteous ORDINANCES….I fulfill your COMMANDMENTS. My soul keeps your DECREES; I love them exceedingly. I keep your PRECEPTS and decrees, for all my ways are before you.”
40. What do “the Law” mean Today? -We are blessed as God ’s PEOPLE
41. DEUTERONOMY 4:8 (NIV) “ What great nation is there that has statutes and judgments as righteous as this whole law which I am setting before you today?”
42. What do “the Law” mean Today? -We are blessed as God ’s PEOPLE -We receive God ’s PROMISES
43. JOSHUA 21:45 (NIV) “ Not one of all the LORD’s good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.”
44. What do “the Law” mean Today? -We are blessed as God ’s PEOPLE -We receive God ’s PROMISES -We know God’s PARAMETERS for protection and direction
45. PSALM 119:105 (NIV) “ Your Word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path.”
46. What do “the Law” mean Today? -We are blessed as God ’s PEOPLE -We receive God ’s PROMISES -We know God’s PARAMETERS for protection and direction -We understand God ’s PRINCIPLES for wise living
47. What do “the Law” mean Today? -We are blessed as God ’s PEOPLE -We receive God ’s PROMISES -We know God’s PARAMETERS for protection and direction -We understand God ’s PRINCIPLES for wise living -We inherit God’s PROMISES
48. JEREMIAH 29:11 (NIV) “ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
49. EPHESIANS 2:10 (NIV) “ For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
51. How should I respond to God ’s Laws? -Obey the Laws you Know
52. How should I respond to God ’s Laws? -Obey the Laws you Know -Learn the Laws you Don ’t Know
53. How should I respond to God ’s Laws? -Obey the Laws you Know -Learn the Laws you Don ’t Know -Share God ’s Laws with those who Don’t Know
54. How should I respond to God ’s Laws? -Obey the Laws you Know -Learn the Laws you Don ’t Know -Share God ’s Laws with those who Don’t Know -Strive to Know God whose Law is Love
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56. J.I. Packer (Growing in Christ) “ Love and law are not opponents but allies, forming together the axis of true morality. Law needs love as its drive, else we get the Pharisaism that puts principles before people and says one can be perfectly good without actually loving one’s neighbor….”
57. J.I. Packer (Growing in Christ) “ And love needs law as its eyes, for love is blind. To want to love someone Christianly does not of itself tell you how to do it. Only as we observe the limits set by God’s law can we really do people good….”
58. J.I. Packer (Growing in Christ) “ As cars, being made as they are, only work well with gas in the tank, so we, being made as we are, only find fulfillment in a life of law-keeping. This is what we were both made and redeemed for.”
