BELOVED OF GOD, LAWS ARE RULES OF CONDUCT SET FORTH BY AUTHORITY. AUTHORITY IS THOSE THAT HAVE THE POWER TO GIVE COMMANDS, DEMAND OBEDIENCE, AND PUNISH THE TRANSGRESSORS. WHEN GOD BROUGHT ISRAEL OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE, OUT OF EGYPT. ISRAEL HAD BEEN IN BONDAGE FOR FOUR HUNDRED YEARS. THEY HAD NO RULES OF CONDUCT, NO LAWS TO BASE THEIR LIVES ON AS RELATING TO GOD, AND MAN. THEREFORE GOD GAVE THEM TEN FUNDAMENTAL LAWS, TEN RULES OF CONDUCT SAT FORTH BY AUTHORITY, THAT WOULD TEACH THEM RIGHT FROM WRONG, JUST FROM UNJUST. AND THESE ARE THE LAWS THAT GOD GAVE.

EXODUS 20:1 AND GOD SPAKE ALL THESE WORDS SAYING, 2. I AM THE LORD THY GOD, WHICH HAVE BROUGHT THEE OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE, 3. THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER gods BEFORE ME. 4. THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE, OR ANY LIKENESS OF ANY THINGS THAT IS IN HEAVEN ABOVE, OR THAT IS N THE EARTH BENEATH, OR THAT IS IN THE WATER UNDER THE EARTH. 5. THOU SHALT NOT BOW DOWN THYSELF TO THEM, NOR SERVE THEM, FOR I THE LORD THY GOD AM A JEALOUS GOD, VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN UNTO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION OF THEM THAT HATE ME. 6. AND SHEWING MERCY UNTO THOUSANDS OF THEM THAT LOVE ME, AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS. 7. THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN, FOR THE LORD WILL NOT HOLD HIM GUILTLESS THAT TAKETH HIS NAME IN VAIN. 8. REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY, TO KEEP IT HOLY. 9., SIX DAYS SHALT THOU LABOUR, AND DO ALL THY WORK. 10. BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD THY GOD; IN IT THOU SHALT NOT DO ANY WORK, THOU, NOR THY SON, NOR THY DAUGHTER, THY MANSERVANT, NOR THY MAIDSERVANT, NOR THY CATTLE, NOR THY STRANGER THAT IS WITHIN THY GATES; 11. FOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE SEA, AND ALL THAT IN THEM IS, AND RESTED THE SEVENTH DAY; WHEREFORE THE LORD BLESS THE SABBATH DAY, AND HALLOWED IT. 12. HONOUR THY FATHER AND THY6 MOTHER, THAT THY DAYS MAY BE LONG UPON THE LAND WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE. 13. THOU SHALL NOT KILL. 14. THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY. 15. THOU SHALT NOT STEAL. 16. THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR. 17. THOU SHALL NOT COVET THY NEIGHBGOUR'S WIFE, NOR HIS MANSERVANT, NOR HIS MAIDSERVANT, NOR HIS OX, NOR HIS ASS, NOR ANY THING THAT IS THY NEIGHBOUR'S.

SAINTS OF GOD, WHEN ADAM TRANSGRESS GOD'S COMMANDMENT SIN CAME INTO THE WORLD, AND POLLUTED, CONTAMINATED, AND MADE UNCLEAN, THE FISH OF THE SEA, THE BIRDS OF THE AIR, THE ANIMALS, THE GROUND, AND ALL MANKIND, FOR WE WERE ALL IN ADAM. AND BECAUSE MAN HAD TRANSGRESSED HIS COMMANDMENT, AND POLLUTED HIS CREATION, GOD HAD ENMITY, A JUSTIFIED ANGER, TOWARD ALL MANKIND. AND FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS ALL MANKIND WAS WITHOUT HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE. BUT WHEN MOSES WAS BORN, GOD CHOSE HIM A PEOPLE, ISRAEL AND ALLOWED THEM TO PUT OFF THE SECOND DEATH BY THE RITUAL OF THE SCAPE GOAT. BUT IT WAS NEVER INTENDED THAT THE BLOOD OF BULLS, AND GOATS SHOULD TAKE AWAY SIN. THEREFORE, THE REMEMBRANCE OF ISRAELIS SINS CAME INTO GOD'S REMEMBRANCE EVERY YEAR.

HEBREWS 10:1 FOR THE LAW HAVING A SHADOW OF GOOD THINGS TO COME, AND NOT THE VERY IMAGE OF THE THINGS, CAN NEVER WITH THOSE SACRIFICES WHICH THEY OFFERED YEAR BY YEAR CONTINUALLY MAKE THE COMERS THERE UNTO PERFECT. 2. FOR THEN WOULD THEY NOT HAVE CEASED TO BE OFFERED? BECAUSE THAT THE WORSHIPPERS ONCE PURGED SHOULD HAVE HAD NO MORE CONSCIENCE OF SINS. 3. BUT IN THOSE SACRIFICES THERE IS A REMEMBRANCE AGAIN MADE OF SINS EVERY YEAR. 4. FOR IT IS NOT POSSIBLE THAT THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND OF GOATS SHOULD TAKE AWAY SINS. 5. WHEREFORE WHEN HE COMETH INTO THE WORLD, HE SAITH, SACRIFICE AND OFFERING THOU WOULDEST NOT, BUT A BODY HAST THOU PREPARED ME; 6. IN BURNT OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES FOR SIN THOU HAST HAD NO PLEASURE. 7. THEN SAID I, LO, I COME 9. IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME,) TO DO THY WILL, O GOD, HE TAKETH AWAY THE FIRST, THAT HE MAY ESTABLISH THE SECOND. 10. BY THE WHICH WILL WE ARE SANCTIFIED THROUGH THE OFFERING OF THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST ONCE FOR ALL. 11. AND EVERY PRIEST STANDETH DAILY MINISTERING AND OFFERING OFTENTIMES THE SAME SACRIFICES, WHICH CAN NEVER TAKE AWAY SINS; 12. BUT THIS MAN, AFTER HE HAD OFFERED ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS FOR EVER SAT DOWN ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD. 13. FROM HENCEFORTH EXPECTING TILL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE HIS FOOTSTOOL. 14. FOR BY ONE OFFERING HE HATH PERFECTED FOR EVER THEM THAT ARE SANCTIFIED.

HOLY CHILDREN FROM THE TIME THAT ADAM DID EAT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, UNTIL CHRIST JESUS HANG ON CALVARY'S TREE, WE AS GENTILES WERE WITHOUT HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE. BUT WHEN CHRIST JESUS HANG ON CALVARY'S TREE, HE TORN DOWN THE PARTITION BETWEEN THE JEW, AND THE GENTILE; AND MADE OF THE TWO ONE NEW MAN IN CHRIST. NOW WE THAT WERE AFAR OFF, ARE MADE NIGH BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.

EPHESIANS 2:11 WHEREFORE REMEMBER, THAT YE BEING IN TIME PAST GENTILES IN THE FLESH, WHO ARE CALLED UNCIRCUMCISION BY THAT WHI9CH IS CALLED THE CIRCUMCISION IN THE FLESH MADE BY HANDS; 12. THAT AT THAT TIME YE WERE WITHOUT CHRIST, BEING ALIENS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL, AND STRANGERS FROM THE COVENANTS OF PROMISE HAVING NO HOPE, AND WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD; 13. BUT NOW IN CHRIST YE WHO SOMETIMES WERE FARE OFF ARE MADE NIGH BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. 14. FOR HIS IS OUR PEACE, WHO HATH MADE BOTH ONE, AND HATH BROKEN DOWN THE MIDDLE WALL OF PARTITION BETWEEN US; 15. HAVING ABOLISHED IN HIS FLESH THE ENMITY, EVEN THE LAW OF COMMANDMENTS CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES ; FOR TO MAKE IN HIMSELF OF TWIN ONE NEW MAN, SO MAKING PEACE; 16. AND THAT HE MIGHT RECONCILE BOTH UNTO GOD IN ONE BODY BY THE CROSS, HAVING SLAIN THE ENMITY THEREBY;

BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST, THE LAW OF MOSES IS KNOWN AS THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH. FOR THE LAW OF MOSES HAD TO BE KEPT TO THE LETTER. IF A PERSON TRANSGRESS THE LAW OF MOSES, HE WENT UNDER THE CURSE. BECAUSE OF THIS COMMANDMENT.

DEUTERONOMY 27:26 CURSED BE HE THAT CONFIRMETH NOT ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW TO DO THEM. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN.

BELOVED OF GOD, THE CURSE MENTIONED HERE IS A SENTENCE OF CONDEMNATION, A SENTENCE THAT BROUGHT DESTRUCTION TO THE PEOPLE UNDER THE CURSE. BUT, CHRIST JESUS HAS DELIVERED US, THE CHILDREN OF GOD, FROM THE CROSS BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN, CURSED IS EVERY MAN THAT HANGETH ON A TREE.

GALATIANS 3:10 FOR AS MANY AS ARE OF THE WORKS OF THE LAW ARE UNDER THE CURSE; FOR IT IS WRITTEN, CURSED IS EVERY ONE THAT CONTINUETH NOT IN ALL THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW TO DO THEM. 11. BUT THAT NO MAN IS JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW IN THE SIGHT OF GOD, IT IS EVIDENT; FOR, THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH. 12. AND THE LAW IS NOT OF FAITH; BUT, THE MAN THAT DOETH THEM SHALL LIVE IN THEM. 13. CHRIST HATH REDEENED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW, BEING MADE A CURSE FOR US FOR IT IS WRITTEN, CURSED IS EVERY ONE THAT HANGETH ON A TREE. 14. THAT THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM MIGHT COME ON THE GENTILES THROUGH JESUS CHRIST; THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT THROUGH FAITH.

SAINTS OF GOD, IF WE COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED BY THE LAW OF MOSES, THEN CHRIST IS DEAD IN VAIN. REMEMBER THIS SAINTS OF GOD, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE PERISHED UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES. WE THAT HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST, ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES, BUT UNDER THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE WHICH IS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. AND BY THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE, WE WILL NEVER COME INTO CONDEMNATION AS LONG AS WE ABSTAIN FROM THE WORKS OF THE FLESH.

ROMANS 8:1 THERE IS THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO THEM WHICH ARE IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. 2. FOR THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HATH MADE ME FREE FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH. 3. FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO, IN THAT IT WAS WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH, GOD SENDING HIS OWN SON IN THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH, AND FOR SIN CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH; 4. THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. FOR THEY THAT ARE AFTER THE FLESH DO MIND THE THINGS OF THE FLESH; BUT THEY THAT ARE AFTER THE SPIRIT THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT. 6. FOR TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH; BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE.

BELOVED, IF MEN PREACH WRONGLY BY THE OLD TESTAMENT, THEY WILL HAVE MEN KILLING THEIR ENEMIES, AS DAVID SLEW GOLIATH, THEY WILL HAVE MEN KILLING WITCHES, STONING STUBBORN CHILDREN, OFFERING UP SACRIFICES, STONING THOSE THAT WORK ON THE SABBATH DAY, STONING MEN, AND WOMEN TO DEATH THAT ARE IN ADULTERY. THERE ARE MANY RIGHTEOUS ACTS RECORDED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. BUT, WE AS CHILDREN OF GOD CANNOT BE MADE RIGHTEOUS BY THE LAW OF MOSES. LET ME REPEAT, IF WE COULD HAVE BEEN MADE RIGHTEOUS BY THE LAW OF MOSES, THEN CHRIST JESUS IS DEAD IN VAIN.

GALATIANS 2:18 FOR IF I BUILD AGAIN THE THINGS WHICH I DESTROYED, I MAKE MYSELF A TRANSGRESSOR. 19. FOR I THROUGH THE LAW AM DEAD TO THE LAW, THAT I MIGHT LIVE UNTO GOD. 20. I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST; NEVER THE LESS I LIVE; YET NOT I, BUT CHRIST LIVETH IN ME; AND THE LIFE WHICH I NOW LIVE IN THE FLESH I LIVE BY THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD, WHO LOVED ME AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME. 21. I DO NOT FRUSTRATE THE GRACE OF GOD FOR IF RIGHTEOUSNESS COME BY THE LAW, THEN CHRIST IS DEAD IN VAIN.

BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST, YOU MAY WONDER WHY THE LAW OF MOSES WAS RECORDED IF WE, AS CHILDREN OF GOD ARE NOT TO SHAPE OUR LIVES BY THE LAW OF MOSES, BY THE OLD TESTAMENT? THE LAW, AND THE PROPHETS WERE A SCHOOLMASTER TO BRING US TO CHRIST.

GALATIANS 3:22 BUT THE SCRIPTURE HATH CONCLUDED ALL UNDER SIN, THAT THE BEFORE FAITH CAME, WE WERE KEPT UNDER THE LAW, SHUT UP UNTO THE FAITH WHICH SHOULD AFTERWARDS BE REVEALED.

24. WHEREFORE THE LAW WAS OUR SCHOOLMASTER TO BRING US UNTO CHRIST, THAT WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH. 25. BUT AFTER THAT FAITH IS COME, WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER A SCHOOLMASTER. 26. FOR YE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF GOD BY FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS 27. FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST. 28. THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK, THERE IS NEITHER BOND NOR FREE, THERE IS NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE; FOR YE ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS. 29. AND IF YE BE CHRIST'S THEN ARE YE ABRAHAM'S SEED, AND HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE.

CHILD OF GOD, SINCE THE LAW OF MOSES HAD TO BE KEPT TO THE LETTER, AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE MAN THAT WAS ABLE TO KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES TO THE LETTER, AND THAT MAN WAS JESUS CHRIST, GOD'S ONLY BEGOTTEN SON. WE ARE SAVED BY HIS LIFE.

ROMANS 5:10 FOR IF, WHEN WE WERE ENEMIES WE WERE RECONCILED TO GOD BY THE DEATH OF HIS SON, MUCH MORE, BEING RECONCILED, WE SHALL BE SAVED BY HIS LIFE. CHRISTIAN BRETHREN, COME INTO THIS KNOWLEDGE, RIGHTEOUSNESS BY THE LAW OF MOSES, AND THE PROPHET WERE UNTIL JOHN THE BAPTIST CAME PREACHING IN THE WILDERNESS. SINCE THAT TIME THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS PREACHED, AND MEN ARE PRESSED INTO IT.

ST. LUKE 16:16 THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN; SINCE THAT TIME THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS PREACHED, AND EVERY MAN PRESSETH INTO IT.

BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST, BEWARE OF THOSE MEN THAT PREACH ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT. FOR IF THEY DRAW YOU BACK UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES', TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU CIRCUMCISE YOURSELF TO KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES'. YOU WILL FALL FROM GRACE, AND CHRIST WILL PROFIT YOU KNOWING.

GALATIANS 5:1 STAND FAST THEREFORE IN THE LIBERTY WHEREWITH CHRIST HATH MADE US FREE, AND BE NOT ENTANGLED AGAIN WITH THE YOKE OF BONDAGE. 2. BEHOLD, I PAUL SAY UNTO YOU, THAT IF YE BE CIRCUMCISED, CHRIST SHALL PROFIT YOU NOTHING. 3. FOR I TESTIFY AGAIN TO EVERY MAN THAT IS CIRCUMCISED, THAT HE IS A DEBTOR TO DO THE WHOLE LAW. 4. CHRIST IS BECOME OF NO EFFECT UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER OF YOU ARE JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW ; YE ARE FALLEN FROM GRACE. 5. FOR IN JESUS CHRIST NEITHER CIRCUMCISION AVAILETH ANY THING, NOR UNCIRCUMCISION; BUT FAITH WHICH WORKETH BY LOVE.