TCH MINI-STUDY 6
GODS COMMANDMENTS ARE FOR OUR GOOD
“And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which
I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. For it is not a vain
thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to
possess it” (Deu 32:46-47).
“Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes,
which he hath commanded thee. And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee,
and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, To cast out all thine enemies from before
thee, as the LORD hath spoken. And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes,
and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you? Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt;
and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh,
and upon all his household, before our eyes: And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which
he sware unto our fathers. And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that
he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before
the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us” (Deu 6:17-25).
“He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth
me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Judas saith unto him,
not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If
a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him” (John 14:21-23).
“If
ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. These things
have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full” (John 15:10-11).
“And hereby we do
know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the
truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. He
that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked” (1 John 2:3-6).
“Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever
I command you” (John 15:14).
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love
one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another” (John 13:34-35).
“Whosoever
believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we
keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the
victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son
of God?” (1 John 5:1-5).
“And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou
wilt enter into life, keep the commandments” (Mat 19:17).
THE CHRISTIAN HERALD
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Judeo-Christian Bible Study
WHERE SIN ABOUNDED, GRACE DID
MUCH MORE ABOUND
“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so
death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is
no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression,
who is the figure of him that was to come. But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many
be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as
it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto
justification. For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of
righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) Therefore as by the offence of one judgment cameupon all men to condemnation;
even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many
were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound.
But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness
unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord”
(Romans 5:12-21).
"My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? When I remember these things,
I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise,
with a multitude that kept holyday. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I
shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance"
(Psalms 42:3-5).
THOU SHALT NOT LIE WITH MANKIND
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Neither shalt thou
lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither
shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion"
(Leviticus
18:22-23).
"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them
have committed an abomination: they shall surely
be put to death; their
blood shall be upon them"
(Leviticus 20:13).
PERILOUS TIMES SHALL COME
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their
own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers,
false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than
lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep
into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the
knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate
concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was"
(2 Timothy
3:1-9).
THE NATURAL MAN RECEIVETH NOT THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD
“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which
man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they
are spiritually discerned”
(1
Corinthians 2:12-14).
