We never get a version 1.2 of Gods Law. II

This is a follow up to my previous post.

Joh 3:12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

Gods Law. Right up front in his narative of the world to us. His Law is all about earthly things. "If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?" So if we have not believed or worked with the earthly things, his law, how much is out of place with....other understandings? I have been confessing for a couple of years now about how many pictures I had hanging up, sideways or upside down.

Mathew Henry from his "a church in the house" in chapter 2 pg 34 makes mention as a part of working with your little church in your house to use "due care is taken to put the laws of Christ into practice." pg 36 "To have the great things of God law and gospel written to you, if you count them as a strange things" That one describes so well how Gods law use to seem to me..."as a strange thing"

If you cannot acknowledge that God has authority to give a binding law on us, if you cannot see that he is sovereign over what he has made, then we will be left with a gooey, lovey, dovey God.

This has been a big key for me, seeing his sovereignty, his authority, which positions me to even begin to see that his Word is over all. "to him who has, more will be given" So much of the modern church I believe has tried for so long to make it work without Gods Law that as time has gone on, we have been in a mode of .."to him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.." ?

Can you imagine how frustrating it would be to live in a state where many of the physical laws of the universe are unknown or not understood. You would have no science to begin with. With the knowledge of these laws we can see the relationships between cause and effect, you can have understanding. You can design machinery that works in harmony with the world around us.

Well the church has tried to design program after program while many basic principles from Gods law are unknown or misunderstood. We can have effects all around us and not see the cause. So much continues from the sheer inertia of the basic humanistic understanding (Hey look, The three stooges are on! ) that we were equipped with while growing up and living as Americans. Those world views will hang onto you forever apart from us acknowledging Gods authority of his word and then bowing before Gods design. Without all of Gods word we will live in a narrow version of the good news. Frustrating.

Mathew Henry, on families, noted on page 29 “church’s are sacred society’s, incorporated for the honor and service for Christ in two ways. First they are devoted to God, and second they are employed for him, so should our families be..” Henry would see them as families, cohesive units, many today in the church might agree about “devoted to God” and might see “employed for him” but the understanding , the context would be as individuals. One way harmonizes with Gods system and one harmonizes with Americana. We might see the affect, but the cause…? Pro 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Vision and the law in the same sentence here, equals “happy is he.” Does that sound "as a strange thing" to you?

Joh 3:12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

The world doesn’t need a narrow version of the good news.