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result of hi3 ovm follY7 still he this world. gaunt specter of Hunger- and need neither beg Want 'stalks every land. 'Never is a nor suffer any be ggaz- a man who lack. walks· with God and Yet Almighty God promGod. ha s nr-ouiTRUSTS God to 'Oe:rises us: "My God shall supised to deliver us form that which He ply all 'your NEED according out of every trouhas promised in ble. Even tho we to His riches in elory by His \Vord ~ Christ Jesus. " (Phil. 4:19). brought it on ourWHY are so many NOT ~upplied? selves. Read Psalm DaVid" under' ....._-_ _.-__ _..__ __.__ _ _.._ _ _... 107: 4-31. lIe does inspiration from n,.,t deal with uS God; wrote: "I have been young, and now am 0ld; yet after our sins (Psalm 103:10)" and have I never seen the righteous pr omt s e s to sati~fy our mouths with forsaken, nor his seed begcing goo.d things" (verse 5). bread." (Psalm 37: 25) • Bub., do not mt s ta k e the mercy 0f God. He is a God or ju~tice" as TwC" Reasnns well as :-f love and mercy. There is --'-' always tIns CONDITION: that we reWhy? Because, in the first pent of our own .sins---which means place, the right~ous mah is indus- t"o""furn from them. trious, diligent in his work or If a family is in want because bUsiness, doing all he can do toof shlftles.:lness, laziness, wasteward sup,plyin, honestly his own fulness, or spe nd t hr-Lf'Ld.n e s s , they 'The 1.ord will not suffer mas~ first REPENT of these things" and Wlake a de'l:.,.Yliilned;. ertort 1;0 the soul of the rlghteous to famish: but He casteth away the SUbcorrect them, before God·s pr01ni~es stance 0f the wicked. He becometh may apply. If due to pvor managepoor that dealeth wi~h a slack ment .. this, too, mua t te a c knowl edged , hand: but t he hand of the DILIGENT repented of "a~ld a determined effort maketh rich:"" (Pl,ov-.-lO: 3, ~.-. _- made to over-come it. But God's n.l an for the ChrisAnd-in the second 9lace, the t dan is t o east-ALL our car-e s unon riGhteous has the faith tn TRUST the Lord to keep Hi3 Wora, and, if HIM, (I Pet. 5:7), and He p::"omises that we shall suf.fer no wan t , (Ps , he should find himself in a tight 34:9). p Lac e, tn.,pen the way and supply his every need a c co r-d Ln g to His r Lch ea in glory by Christ Jesus. He does not beg. He asks of GOD~ not ~f ~an, and has the faith to klother REASON for a Great receive the answer. "wnat s oevev is deal of misery ana suffering tono t of faith in of SIN." (R0m. 14:' day in p-:oing c ounter- t o God r s com2'3) • 'owe no marr anything. " We Even the careful, prudent, in- mand , ,0 dustrious man may, in a time of d~ disobey God when we go inJ.;o debt. Many are ~arolass about charging pres~ion like the prese~t, bere~ things, or buying on the ins taJ.-du.ce d to pnverty and wan t , He may, 'p Lan , Buy only tha. t which you 0.1t~~u circumstances out of his conready.haVG cn hand the money to pay trol, find himself in dire need J a.nd utterly helpless. J~1ost men have for. If you do not have the money" to "take the count" and meet r-ever- and the thing is a NEED, do not ses, at least ~nce during life. charge it or go in debt---but ask GOD tn supply the need, TRUST Him, Tt~e man who ha3 been so fortunate and dony yourself until He do e a t as not yet to have met such a reNo one can deny that the Bible verse will Co well to avoid giVing teo much credi t to his own care- defini tely PROMISES that God will deliver us frnm every trial and trou~ ful management and dilligence" or ble. The' Scriptures definitely to criticise or to scorn his less promise that God will supply every fortunate brother. But when a righteous man NEED- - - whot her f inane ial ,sp ir i t ua 1, comes to s~ch a predicament, he ne- or o,thorwise. The Word plainly and definitely promises God will heal ver needs to beg or suffe~ want. us when sick. (Continued on page 9) Even tho his plight be the -"'.
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1ngt "only if they will observe to do according to all that I HAVE CO•• MANDED THEM, and aCCOarrnS" aITtne-riiVi that"myservo.nt MOSES (Continued from page 5) and it is a law complete in itself, oomfnanaea-tneii:'T' '-rre e:a-rrng~ God ape aka- plainly of one law which for HE ADDED NO MORE. He says "I have comma.nded tnsm," Since thIS 'Iii'\Vdld not come and of another 4ifferen~ law whleh by or thru MODe.S, it cannot pe ·"My scr'lant Moses commanded called the law of Moses. Nowhere ill He oa;vs all the Bible can you find a sln~Ie. them .. l1 SU7'ely nO one con tV/1st or one O'rtneri'eriComma.ridment.s -ineri=" - wrest this into anything but TWO tIOnae J.;1, ~ny tex'~ w~.:f"~:-t1j~ !Gr~~ separate lows. rrti'lt of' Mooes" are u3eaJ Nowhere ~'tKeB~f)Ie callt'fieTen ComWritten Dirferen~l, mandments the "law or Moaes. t1 And if the Bible does not, we should Now how was Moses' law wr~tten! not. The Ten Commandments form the See Deut. 31:24-26. "When MO:)eo had mnde an end ofwriting the words ot law referred to as "God's Law," or "His Commandments," and "My THIS law in a book • • • Moses commanded • -.-.-t~th1s book ot the Commandments." Wnere shall we go for a clean- law, and put it in the srae or tne ark or the covenant:n- - - - - cut definition or SIN? Surely the Bible will clearly define anything --- Notice Moses' law was written aa vi tal as SIN. "Sin is the \irans-o IN A BOOK, and 1s distinctly called gr-e a s Lo n of the law!" (I John 3:4). "THE BOm\ OF THE LAW." It was kept VMAT law? Su~ely not,one which was IN THE SIDE OF the ark. ~one away. Surely, also, a very - But how was God's Law written? definite, cleanly-expressed law, "And the Lord delivered unto me two and not just a collection of untables or stone written WITH THE Fl•• related precepts scattered here GER OF' GOD! and ~effi W'iiSwrIttennnd there, subjeat to our own deaccoraing to all the words which the ~ision as to which we think bindLord spa'ke with you." (Deut. 9:10. ing and which not. Jesus made it See also Ex. 31:18). clear that the particular law it ~ Now see where tne Ten Commandsin to transgress is the Ten Comments were kept. "There was nothing mandment~. Paul made this clear. in the ark s~ve the two tables which So does James. So does JOhn. sure- MOses-plittherei7". at Horeb." (II ly it is SIN to have other gods Chron. 5:10). Heb. 9:4 shows they before Him t or to swear, or to lie, were in the inner apartment, the steal, murder, commit adultery. Holy or Holies. Notice, too, Moses did not Some will argue that Moses broke WRITE thj,.:3 law. God wrote this law the original tables of stone, (Deut. in two tables of stone. Since Ood 9:17), anct then ask us to believe gave this law direct to the peothat M03es wrote the second set or ple, with His own voice, and since tables which were in the ark. But its original--authorship wa3 God 'G, read Deut. 10:1-5. The Lord says, written with the very finger of verse 2, "and I will write on the God, it is GOD'S law, and not Mos- tables," and verse 4 says the Lord es' law. And it is COMPLE~E in DID do tho writing, and verse 5 i tse If. "He added no more." So if says these were the same tables Moses gave-them a Iaw;-rt was not which were placed in the ark. this law, or part of this law, or Some, t~o~ maY-nr~~o that Moadded to this law, for to this law ses wrote the Ten Commo.ndments 1n God "added no more." the writing or the Old Testament, claiming that made it Moses law. ~.:.:.cr.'~~ ~ ~ Separate Law But. by the same. ar,;ument, it ia,tnen, MY law, for I, too, have v~itten When, therefore, we read in out all the Ten Comma.ndments several Deut. 33:4 tha.t "MOSES commanded us times. When MO~6i, wrote them, he 0. law," we know it was an entirely was merely copylng thorn, as thousands different and separate law. have done. Or~ginal w~iting estabStudy also Nehemia.h 9:l4:"and lishes authorship, and the original commandedst them precepts, statwriting was God~. ute s anc lo.ws, BY THE HAND OF 1\\OSES To 9um up, Goa gave the people thy ~ervant." These were different a law direct, face to face, With l'rom the Commandments God command- His own voice. Another different law ed them direct from heaven, menwas given thru Moses. The Commandtioned in verce 13. ments were written with the ver, ~ow to prove there are TWO r~nger or God on two tables of stone. entircl~ separate laws---tha~e Moses' law was written by Mooes in Ten Commnndments are considered by a book. The Commandments ware kept God Himself as different o.nd sepINside the ark, in the Holy of Holies, arate from the law of Moses---exunder the mercy seat, (Ex. 25:21), amine II Kine3 2l~8. God is speok- but the "book of the lo.w" of Moses
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was kept outside, in the side of (I John 5:3). Jesus spoke nothing the ark. And notice, too, tho. t 01' Himsolf, but tho Father gave while Moses' law was written in n. ·Him a. com.nandrncrrt , wha t He should book---poriShnble, temporary rna t er- spenk. Ho Ga.ve a.nd broue;ht no NEW ial for 0. t cmpor-ar-y law---God' s Lav Comma ndmcn t s , The two gr-oa t c omwas written on the most enduring m~ndm0nts of lovo to God and lovo and permanent material, tables of to follow-mnn---of which tho Ten STONE, for that law was to be onar-c 0. defini tion---wore quo t cd from auring and porrnuncnb, Tho tV10 laws tho Old Tes t amcn t , HISCommnndments wero given difforontly, writ ton woro His Fathor's Commnndmcnts, tho differently, kept sepa.rntely. Ten. And He a at d , "If ye love mO J KJmp MY COM·lAi~D·I.'W:HTS.'! (John 14:15). The Contrast Josus had to die on the Cres~ oocauso we sinned by brea.king thes Je sus , proaching the Gospel of snmo Commandmon bs , They nrc God's the Kingdom, (Ua.t. 9:35), so.id we La.w of LOVE. Lot ua keep thomt must keep the TcnCommundmcnts to be sa.ved , (Ma;t. 19: ~6-19 ). (While wa are not saved BY our obodience x<?..~ Ca.n Ho:-v..2., 'pL~NTY~. to God's lo.w, but by grace thru (Con tinuod from Pa go 7) fo.ith, yet womust REPENT of' our Then \~lY arc prayers for such sins in ho.vinG transsressed tho.t things unanswered in so many cases? law" and this r-o pen tun cc-c- ..this turning FROM disobedience to wilIt may bo beca.usc we a.s~ o.miss, ling obediencc---is u necessary (Jus. 4:3), and not according to God' condition to being saved by grace. w~ll as plninly oxpressed in His Word Thof'irat thing to do is bo sure we Also a Christio.n must continuo to obey God I s Law or he sins ann. f'u TIs a.re aGking what God has PROMISED to de It rna y bo bo cn us o wc arc not ofrom grace. So While obcd t on ce will not save us, yet we must obey tho bedient to God, and Ho is trying to Commo.ndments, to BE saved.) But tl~ teach us a lesson. Ifwo refuse to doers of the book of tho la.w (of live by EVERY Word of God, rejecting Moses) are u,naor--a' curse TG1l1. 3: par-t of' tho TH UTH of the Bible, wo 10) • are liVing in robellion a.nd nood exTo broaka. single point of the pect nothinG from God till wo surTen Commandments is SIN, (Jas. 2: r-ondcr-, "vVhatsoever we a s k , we r c8-11); but w10n Jews told Gentile ceivo of Him, because we kecn His Christians at Antioch, they must Go~mnndment~, anClDO those-thin~s keep the la.w o~ Mosos (Acts 15:5)~ TIle. t ar- e rpLcn s ang ·in Hi's sight. tho Holy Spirit ii18pired tho Apos .. (1 John 3:22). tlcs to write they noed koep only But moro often it is simply UNfour points of this ceremonial BELIEF, lack of FAITH.mlatsoevor is not of FAITH is of SIN. Ho that law (Acts 15:28,29). It is only those who arc wil- doubtoth is da.nnod , "Let him a sk in FAITH, nothing wa vor Ln g , For he tho.t linG to DO the Ten Commandments wuvoroth • . • lot not that man think who shall entor in thru tho Gates ~ha t ~ sh~11 rcceiv~ "·anything of the· into tho City (Rov. 22: 14), but Lard. (Jas. 2:6,7). the L~w of Moses stood only in VVlIY this general lack of faith? meats and drinks and diverse washIt is almost impossible implicitly to ings, and carnal ordinancos, imtrust anyone, or anythinG, which seemr posed ell them only UNTIL the time unreal to us. of reformation (Heb. 9:10). 'lbe more we live in the things of Let us not bo. deceived. "Sin this world, allow them to occupy our is the transgression of ·the lo.w," thoughts, .a b sor-b our interests, and (I John 3:4). That Law is no t n. become part of 0urlives" the more hanhazurd unrolatod selection of precepts picked here a.nd thoro o.c- REAL these material things seem to us ---and in exact proportion" the more c oz-d Lng to tho de sire s and whims UNREAL God and the spiritual things nr.d traditions ~S men" but 0. very definite, sepa.rate, distinct LAW, seem. We do not KNOW God. To KNOW Him given by the very voice of God di .. 1s to TRUST Him. ~he more we LIVE in r cc t to tr.c peoplo, writton with the spiritual realm, the more cur tr.o very fingor of God on pe r-mathoughts are filled with the things of nent, enduring to.blos of stono--:ho Ten Commandrnon t s , Tho firs t Godt as f'o und in Hi s Word, the more we four cf' theso define LOVE to God. PRAY" the more we WALK in the S:9irit" The last six dofinG LOVE to follow the more REAL lIE. becomes, and the more man. This law is LOVE. wo can trus t Hrriit If' your faith is weak, probably this is the secre t ot i "ALL His Commandmonts are The remedy: Como OUT from the S~e. Thoy st~nd fast for ove~ and over , (Psn1m 111:'7,8). world---all the way. ~eek only GOD'S - - "For this is the LOVE of God, will. Spend much more time in honest that wo ~ HIS COMMAND~ffiNTS, and Bible study and earnest prayer. Rean HIS commename.nts are not grievous. II Ja~, 4:7,9, and Mnt A 6:33.