God's Commandments Are Good For You!

The Commandments, laws and statutes of God are spiritual, perfect, holy, just, and good. They provide a foundation for defining, understanding and living God's love. The law of God reveals the only way to true everlasting life, and the only possible way to achieve happiness, peace, and joy.

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God created human beings to ultimately become members of His family, to inherit immortality and live in harmony with Him and with one another. To dwell with God in harmony we must also agree with, embrace and share His way of thinking. These values are revealed to us in His law… which have been carefully recorded in scripture. Those who God chooses also are given understanding through the power of the holy spirit.
We are given understanding of the application of God’s law… but also its meaning and purpose. Which is simply: that anyone who seeks this ultimate relationship with God must make every effort to heed the directives of God's law.

Sin & God's Law
We know the laws and commandments of God go back 3,500 years to the establishment of His covenant with Israel at Sinai. But these laws really go back further than that… they can be traced back to Abraham… and before that to the very beginning of creation itself… and even before the beginning… because they are a revelation of the mind of God who created all things.

The essential substance of these laws has not, and does not, change. They are the ideal model for human behavior and the standard against which human behavior is judged. Breaking any one point of God's law is sin and brings upon a person the penalty of death.
All injustice, misery, anguish and woe have come from transgressing God's law.

Sin came into the world through the disobedience of the very first human beings. As a result, they were cut off from the tree of life, and only death remained for them. All human beings are under this penalty of separation from God and the source of everlasting life... and all human beings are subject to death.

The sin that separates us from God, and from everlasting life, is the product of both the deception of Satan and of the very makeup of the human heart and mind [which is geared toward fleshly goals not spiritual].
The good news is that forgiveness for sin and release from its penalty are available through Jesus Christ.

Today we will go though the scriptural backing for this summary of the United Church of God's understanding and teaching concerning sin and God's law. It will be organized into 6 points. We will primarily use NT verses since the teachers of lawlessness use these so much.

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