Creation Ordinances Thursday, Nov 20 2008

What Life is All About

MP3’s of GOMVC Podcast:
Creation Ordinance of Dominion
Creation Ordinance of Labor
Creation Ordinance of Marriage
Creation Ordinance of Procreation
Creation Ordinance of the Sabbath

The Law of God was given to Adam and Eve in the Garden. God’s moral law is eternal and binding upon mankind forever. It was restated and clarified to Noah, again to Moses, and again to the New Covenant church through Jesus. God’s moral law is the standard by which God judges righteousness; a standard of which we all have fallen short. Thankfully, Jesus fulfilled the Law of God for us and imputes His righteousness to us when we trust in Him. Through Adam we all died, but through the Second Adam, Jesus Christ, believers live. Indeed, by God’s grace a believer is accepted into heaven based on the righteousness of Jesus. Until then,

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God’s Word, Our Yardstick Thursday, Oct 30 2008

by Greg L. Bahnsen, Th.M., Ph.D.

Day by day we make decisions on how to act, we form attitudes and cultivate emotions, we set goals for ourselves and try to attain them. We do these things individually, as well as in various groups: our family, friends, church, community, occupation, state. In all of these contexts the kind of people we are, the kind of goals we have, and the kind of rules we observe in decision-making are ethical matters. All human behavior and character is subject to appraisal according to moral values; every one of our attainments (whether they be aims that are fulfilled or character traits that are developed) and every one of our actions (whether they be mental, verbal, or bodily behavior) express an unspoken code of right and wrong. All of life is ethical.

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