The Word of the Lord
December 3rd
Moral Law
“And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me.”
Exodus 20:1-3
Daily Devotional
December 3rd
What does it mean to be holy? The true and full concept of holy is beyond our comprehension. God is holy:
“In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. Isaiah 6:1-3 (KJV)
God describes His nature this way:
“And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty;” Exodus 34:6-7 (KJV)
Because God is holy He is merciful and gracious and He is just. Only God can accomplish this.
“Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of His understanding.” Isaiah 40:28 (KJV)
The Ten Commandments of the Old Testament act like a “school teacher” to bring us to Christ. We are brought to Christ by them because we realize that we have not kept them. Just as the Law brought the Israelite to the doorway of the Tabernacle with a lamb to offer for their sins; so the Law points us to Christ, the One who was pictured by the Tabernacle.
The only way for sin to be forgiven is by atonement prescribed by God:
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.” Leviticus 17:11-12 (KJV)
“Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.” Romans 3:19-20 (KJV)
God is holy and just. He desires to forgive yet He promised to punish all sin and since He is holy, how can He keep this promise to forgive and hold the guilty accountable?
“How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?” Job 25:4
The answer is Jesus.
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