Loving God/Obeying His Law

March 24

Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. Matthew 24:11, 12

Many will say to Me in that day, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?" And then I will declare to them, "I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!" Matthew 7:22, 23

The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the Day of Judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, II Peter 2:9,10

For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage. II Peter 2:18, 19

Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. Jude 1:3, 4

Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. I John 2:3, 4

Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. I John 3:4

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 burdensome. I John 5:2, 3

This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it. II John 1:6

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. Romans 8:7



It requires but a cursory reading of a few scriptures to become fully aware that the awfulness of sin is a prevalent topic in the Word. The God who gave Himself for us has inspired His human scribes to address the matter fully with the intent that mankind will know His truth and that His truth will set man free, John 8:32.

Friendship with the world will certainly obfuscate the truth the Holy One would reveal to His errant creation, for it is enmity with God, James 4:4. The closer man adheres himself to the world and its value system, the less credence he gives to the value system of the One who inhabits eternity.



As the old saying clearly conveys, ‘You are what you eat,’ because the foods you take into yourself greatly impact your fat to muscle ratio, so do the things you take into your spirit impact your inner man--your world to spirit ratio. Will you be focused on the world or will you be holy and righteous?

If you will be righteous and godly, then you must take to yourself the Word of Life and allow the admonitions against sin that you find there to govern you. If living righteously is the goal of your existence, if salvation from sin is your ultimate life’s goal, then you cannot trivialize the words He has given that are intended to the purpose of setting you free.

Christ’s great price, His “unspeakable Gift,” II Corinthians 9:15 will avail you nothing if you elect to disregard the truth that you must build “precept upon precept, line upon line,” Isaiah 28:10. Salvation is indeed free, but if it is esteemed, it will become the centerpiece of life.

All the work we do toward temporal ends is futile, but all we perform in the behalf of Christ’s Kingdom, all we do to further His purposes within ourselves and within others, all we strive to reveal to those who know Him not that they, too, might be saved will extol the virtue of His law. And we will obey the word that says, "Be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy," I Peter 1:16.