All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. In the same way, all preaching and teaching whatever subject it may be shall end up into the Law which is the Ten Commandments. If a preacher preach about a doctrine, not a false doctrine then it is connected to the 9th commandment that said, “You shall not lie”.
If a preacher preach about suffering, that is connected to the 1st unto the 4th commandments. Look at Job, who suffers much as he can bear, his lips does not utter words that will dishonor God. When preachers preach about just anything else in the bible all end up into the Law. Because the Law is the summary of the whole bible, and the summary of the Law which is the Ten Commandments is the two Greatest Commandments. Then the summary of the two Greatest Commandments end up only in just one single word- Love.
Every subject or topics taken from the Bible that had been delivered in the pulpits and written in the books are all about, in some fashion or another, the exhortation, explanation, and exegesis of the Law. The law which is the Ten Commandments circles and embodies all teaching that could be found in the scriptures.
It is very vital therefore, that we should not ignore and abolish the Law, even the least part (smallest letter and the least stroke of a pen) of the Law. Mat 5:17-19
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Did You Know…?
That the summary of the whole scripture which is the bible is the Ten Commandments? Yes it is, in fact, the summary of the Law which is the Ten Commandments is the Two Greatest Commandments. And the very summary of the Two Greatest Commandments end in just only one single word and that is Love.
In reality, the bible itself is a love letter of God sent for each of us personally. That’s why we need to read and meditate it day and night. Have you received a love letter came from someone who personally wants to tell and show his or her love to you? What a wonderful feeling reading that letter isn’t it? In the same way, as we read the bible we should cultivate a sense of feeling of love toward God when everytime we read the bible. God first love us and by that we should develop and have that kind of feeling arising within us when we read His love letter. If it will not go on that way, bible reading will be a ritual thing and boring.
Do you want to experience the love and the exceeding excitement of bible reading? The first thing is, you must fall in love with the Law. You must love the Law and delight in the Law.
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. (Psa 119:97)
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. (Psa 1:2)
The question now is, “How can we express that love into an action form”? Simply, it is by obeying the two greatest commandments. But how exactly can we express or perform the two greatest commandments? They are already given and that is by keeping the Ten Commandments. Not just keeping them but surpassing them which the end result will be “Love toward God and love to our neighbor”. We cultivate that kind of love within us when we surpass the law. (Matt 5: 20; 1 Jn 5:2)
The last question would be, “How can we learn more to surpass the law which is the Ten Commandments”? It is no other than anything else but through only by reading, meditating and applying the Word of God- the Bible.
In reality, the bible itself is a love letter of God sent for each of us personally. That’s why we need to read and meditate it day and night. Have you received a love letter came from someone who personally wants to tell and show his or her love to you? What a wonderful feeling reading that letter isn’t it? In the same way, as we read the bible we should cultivate a sense of feeling of love toward God when everytime we read the bible. God first love us and by that we should develop and have that kind of feeling arising within us when we read His love letter. If it will not go on that way, bible reading will be a ritual thing and boring.
Do you want to experience the love and the exceeding excitement of bible reading? The first thing is, you must fall in love with the Law. You must love the Law and delight in the Law.
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. (Psa 119:97)
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. (Psa 1:2)
The question now is, “How can we express that love into an action form”? Simply, it is by obeying the two greatest commandments. But how exactly can we express or perform the two greatest commandments? They are already given and that is by keeping the Ten Commandments. Not just keeping them but surpassing them which the end result will be “Love toward God and love to our neighbor”. We cultivate that kind of love within us when we surpass the law. (Matt 5: 20; 1 Jn 5:2)
The last question would be, “How can we learn more to surpass the law which is the Ten Commandments”? It is no other than anything else but through only by reading, meditating and applying the Word of God- the Bible.
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