19 La ley de Dios | Serie 28 Creencias | Misión Mexiquense

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Hello, friends, how are you? May the

Lord bless you once again. A big

hello to all of you

tuning in from your homes, from the

offices of our mission in the State of Mexico.

As you can see, this beautiful

panorama is the great evangelistic challenge we

have as a church, as a mission: to

win souls for Christ so that all

may come to the Kingdom. We are now going to

begin

today's study. We will be studying the Law of

God, this beautiful topic. So let us pray and

begin our study today.

Father in Heaven, thank you for

these beautiful blessings called

beliefs, and also for the general study

of your Word. Bless them, Lord, as they

study the topic of the Law of God,

which reflects and demonstrates

your character, Lord, of integrity in all

aspects. Therefore, Lord, we ask for your

blessing, and that every brother and sister, every friend

who is tuning in, wherever you

are, whether from our mission in the

State of Mexico or from somewhere else,

please receive your blessing at

this moment in Christ Jesus. Amen. Very

well, the study of the Law of God is a somewhat

controversial topic for the Christian world. Because it's

controversial, because some say

the law should be kept,

and others, if you ask whether to keep the law or not, say no.

So there's a dilemma

among Christians about whether

the law should be kept or not. But

well, I want you to go to the

word of God and draw your own

conclusions. Should it be kept or not? How will

you draw your own

conclusions? Well, by opening your

Bible. Please open your Bible and save

these verses that are going to be

shared with you right now about the law

of God, and that will help

you a lot to make a formal,

coherent, and above all, honest decision.

Very good. And I want you to remember that

the psalmist David, in Psalm 119:97,

said something very beautiful: "

Oh Lord, how I love your law! It is my

meditation night and day."

How wonderful it would be if that same exclamation

were yours and mine, wouldn't it? Of

course, it would be very important if it were so,

and we would be having a

heart after God's own heart,

because that's how the Lord expressed it, through

David himself, being an imperfect man,

committing many errors, breaking

the very law of God. But he was a man after

God's own heart because he loved

that law, and because at the end of his days he

conformed his life to the regulations, the

laws, and the commandments of our

Lord. That's why I want to invite you to

meditate on this other verse in 1

John 5:3. It says that this is the great love of

God: that we keep his commandments.

That is the love of God, that we keep

his commandments. And it says another

important phrase: "And his commandments are not

burdensome." That's important for you and me to know, to believe, to

live.

God's commandments are not heavy; they are

not meant to bother anyone,

not you, not me, not any being on

earth. In God's law,

God's commandments are a

protective fence so that you don't stray from it,

and it is protected. If you step outside of it, it's

about protection; you become unprotected. For

example, if

you liked to steal, kill, or covet,

or commit

adultery—I know that's not the case—then what would happen? These

are actions that are

against yourself; these are actions that will

harm you and

your neighbor. That's why the law

is in effect; it hasn't been abolished. And

if we were to say that the law

was abolished, then we would be

following the doctrine of the enemy who

wanted to trample, and who still wants to

trample, the law of God, which

reflects the character of love and order

that God has. That's why the Ten

Commandments are found in verse 220. And I

want to mention, and I want you to

remember this once again, that there is

a very interesting thesis by

Dr. Frank Gonzalez in that

beautiful book called "Ten Plus Ten

Miraculous Promises." That book

tells us that each of the

commandments is a promise that God

was giving to His people because

in Exodus 20 it says, "And God spoke all

these words, saying, 'I am the Lord your

God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the

house of bondage.'" First of all,

the Lord is saying that everything

He did, He did to free you from

slavery.

I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of the

land of Egypt where you were a

slave. Therefore, verse 3

of chapter 20 says, "You shall

have no

other gods before me." It

seems like it said a sentence, a

prohibition: "You shall have no other gods

before me." But if you look at it from the other

side of the coin, it's: "Don't worry, you

are free now. You will have no other gods

before me." Because the Egyptians—

excuse me, because the Hebrews there in

Goshen—wanted to praise God, but they had to

violate the Sabbath. They had to worship the

idols of their masters, the Egyptians.

Some of the young

Hebrew women, daughters of God, were even defiled

by the Egyptians; they were raped and committed

adultery because they were slaves.

However, the miraculous promises

here in Exodus 20 are not

prohibitions. If we want to see it that way, they

could also be promises: "You shall have no other

gods before me." "You shall not make

images for yourself." Because you had to bow down

to my idol,

to clouds, and countless others. Egyptian idols and

gods, and with the whip on their

backs, they had to kneel before

foreign gods, knowing in their

hearts that they only had one powerful God,

and that is our Lord, Creator of heaven and

earth. And here the promise says, "You shall

not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in

heaven above or on

the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall

not bow down to them." That I

promise you, you shall not bow down to

them or to anything that is strange, for I, the

Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the

children for the sin of the parents

to the third and fourth generation of

those who hate me, but showing love

to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep

my commandments. Third commandment,

verse seven: "You shall not take the name of the

Lord your God in vain, for the

Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his

name in vain." The

Egyptians would tell the Hebrews, "Swear by your

God,"

and so they had to swear, but the

promise here is, "You shall not take the name

of the Lord your God in vain." You shall not worship the Lord your God in vain.

And then in verses 8 through

11 there is another promise that will be

fulfilled and that can be fulfilled

today because we are no longer in

slavery. Keeping the Sabbath

is not a sign of slavery; it is a

sign of freedom. Look at what the

Word of God says: “Remember the Sabbath day

to keep it holy.” Before, our brothers and sisters didn't know what

day they were living on. They called it

the Sabbath, the Lord's day. We are not

respecting it; we are not keeping it; we

are not worshiping it. They had to work

every day of their lives as slaves.

But now you will remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

Six days you shall labor, I

promise you, and the seventh day is a Sabbath

to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work,

neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor

your livestock, nor any

foreigner residing in

your towns. For in six days the

Lord made the heavens and the earth, the

sea, and all that is in them, and

rested on the seventh day. Therefore

the Lord blessed the earth. The Sabbath day, and He

healed him

and showed signs that the

Sabbath day, Saturday, has. Yes, it was blessed, it was

sanctified, and it was kept by the Lord.

Look what it says here: 12

Honor your father and your mother, so that

your days may be long in the land that

the Lord your God is giving you. We were leaving

Egypt. Well, in this place you will honor

your parents, and look what else: you will not

kill. There it says, it's a promise: you will not kill.

Another promise: you will not commit adultery. You had

your family, you had your wife, but

since you were a slave, the Egyptian woman, just as she

persecuted Joseph, also persecuted

our brothers in Goshen, and they

had to commit adultery. This was a

violation of the

moral and spiritual principles that the people of

God have always practiced from Adam

to our day. And look what it says

here: also, you will not steal. You will not

need to take anything that belongs to another in order to

eat with your children. You will not

need to steal. You will not betray. You will

not bear false witness against your neighbor. A

slave testifies. She testifies

that her sister stole the pearls from me, and

then she had to testify and

give false testimony against her neighbor,

but the Lord promises her, "You will no longer bear

false witness, you will not speak falsely against your

neighbor." And she doesn't know what

else. One of the most beautiful promises,

which seems very simple if we see it as

a commandment, but if you see it as a

promise,

look how beautiful what it says: "You will no longer

covet anything, neither your neighbor's house,

nor your neighbor's wife, nor his male

servant, nor his female servant, nor his donkey,

nor anything that belongs to your neighbor." It doesn't

say, "Glory to God, glory to

God," because there is no longer a need to

commit these violations of

God's principles. That is why it is important

that we meditate: Is the law still in effect,

or has it been abolished? It is

important to meditate on this, but many

Christians take a verse from it. I think I

checked it in Romans 10:4.

There is a verse that says this way: "

For Christ is the end of the law." Many

Christians get confused, saying, "Well,

the end of the law is..." Christ, there it ended

with the death of Christ, with the life of

Christ when He is crucified and

ascends to heaven. The end of that law

ended because it was Christ. It turns out that it's

not like that. The word "end," when you

read it in the original Greek, the

correct word there is "jealousy." The

Greek word has three

meanings: 1. termination, 2. objective, 3.

purpose.

Which of these three meanings could

be the one the word

of God is telling us there? If we read it, and if we go further,

and if we are more demanding in our study of

the Bible, well, we will realize that it

is saying there that the end of the law is

Christ. It is telling us the objective of

the law, the purpose of the law is Christ. That is why

Galatians 3:24 confirms it, saying that

the law,

the law of God, has been our

guide, our

nanny, to lead us to Christ. That is what

the word of God says. If there in

Galatians 3:24 it says that the law has been

our guide to lead us to Christ, it

means that we would be in an

inconsistency if we said that The end of

the law, the fulfillment of the law, is

Christ, but the word of God from

Genesis to Revelation does not

contradict itself. That is why the Lord Jesus, when they

asked him to test him, said in

Matthew 5:17, "Do not think that I have come to

abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not

come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For

truly I tell you, until everything is accomplished, not

one

letter, not one stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law

until it is accomplished." You ask, "Has

everything been accomplished yet?" There are many things

that are still being fulfilled and are yet to be

fulfilled, so the law has not been abolished. These

are direct words of Christ

Jesus. It is important that you read it in

your Bible and give it a

correct interpretation. And if we go to the scriptural form

as it says, it doesn't need any

exegesis. The Lord is telling you, "I did not

come to abolish the Law, nor did I come to abolish

the Prophets, but I came to

fulfill them." And look how beautiful the word

of God is telling us what we

have to do: keep that

Beautiful law, and many say, "But well,

the Lord Jesus mentioned that the law was to

love God and love your neighbor."

Matthew chapter 22 says it very well, and I'm going to

look it up because I want to read it

for you too. Matthew chapter 22—I know

some of you already know this

verse, this text, and we rejoice in

reading it—also says, "

Then the Pharisees, verse 34,

when the Pharisees heard that he had

silenced the Pharisees, gathered together.

And one of them, an expert in the law,

asked him a question to test him, saying, 'Teacher,

which is the greatest commandment in the Law?'

Jesus said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God

with all your heart and with all your soul and with all

your mind.' This is the first and

greatest commandment. And the second,

like it, is to love your neighbor as

yourself.'" And then he said in verse 40

something very important—pay attention, underline it in

red—it says, "And on these two commandments

depend all the Law and the Prophets." In

other words, what did the

Lord Jesus answer those who were trying to test

him? Because it says it was to

tempt him. The question wasn't to gain a

broader understanding and worship God, but

to test Him. But what did the

Lord say in His infinite wisdom? "

You shall love God and you shall love your neighbor, and on

these two commandments depend all the

Law and the Prophets." So the

Lord answered them, "Neither one nor the

other is more important; all together they are

important, and on these two

commandments depends all the Law." Well,

because the first four

commandments speak to you about loving

God.

Remember, number one is, "You shall have no other

gods before me." "You shall not make for yourself an

image or bow down to them or to anything strange,

for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, a zealous man who blesses the Lord your God." "You shall

not take the

name of the Lord your God in vain." And

four, "Remember the Sabbath day, to

keep it holy." These commandments

show you if you are living them, if you

are trying to practice them in your

life. You demonstrate with that that you love the

Lord your God. The first great commandment, "

You shall love the Lord your God," is one of the first

four of the Decalogue.

And if we go to "

Honor your father," "Honor your mother," that is love. Goodbye.

His love for your neighbor is

to your father and your mother. You shall not steal, you shall not murder, you shall not

commit adultery, you shall

not bear false witness against your neighbor, you shall

not covet. They are

telling you to love your neighbor, and don't think

I'm making that up, right?

I want you to see Romans 13:9.

Look what Romans 13:

9 says. There's a very interesting verse. It

says: "You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall

not steal, you shall not bear false

witness, you shall not covet, and any

other commandment." In this sentence it is

summarized: "You shall love your neighbor as

yourself." Word of God, Amen. Very well,

let's conclude our

study of the law. We must keep the law. Did

the Lord abolish the law? Not

the law of God. Now it's only about loving God

and your neighbor. Yes

and no, because you must also keep all

the commandments, otherwise there would be an

inconsistency. The Lord clarified it in

verse 40 of Matthew 22, where it says of

these The entire law depends on these two commandments. Pay

attention to that. Now,

if God is love,

and if God is

love, sorry,

if God is love and if God wants to

save you, He also wants you to keep His

commandments. Look at what it says in

Ecclesiastes 3:14. It says there in Ecclesiastes

3:14 that all the things God has

made—and you know that the commandments

were made with the finger of God, right?

—were written on those tablets of stone.

The only portion of the Bible that wasn't

written by humans is the Decalogue. And

look what Ecclesiastes says. I'm going to read from

Ecclesiastes 3:14. It says, "Thus I have understood

that everything God does will be perpetual,"

which means perpetual forever. I have

understood that everything God does will be

perpetual; nothing will be added to it, nor will anything be taken

from it. And God does it so that, regarding the

matter,

men can remove one, two, or three

verses or commandments from the law of

God that He wrote with His own finger.

You can remove any of them, right? No, you can't.

Dare to do it. The Word

tells us about what God has done,

but it will be perpetual. First, and second,

not

one jot or tittle should be added to or taken away from it.

So it's important that we believe God's law is

valid as it is and practice it out of love for

God. Look at what James 2:10 says.

James 2:10 says, "For whoever

keeps all the commandments but

fails in one point is

guilty of breaking the whole law." It's no use saying, "I

keep the commandments, but

not on the Sabbath," or "I keep all the

commandments, but not the one about adultery,

but God forgives me." You don't

need to keep all of

God's commandments because, as

James says, "Whoever keeps

the commandments but fails in one

point is guilty of breaking them all." And I'll

finish by telling you this:

if you were to ask the Lord Jesus, "

Lord, should I keep the commandments that

are written there in your Bible?"

Because this isn't about religion, this is

n't... This is about denomination; this is

about the word of God, and in

Spanish, Hebrew, Greek, or

any other language, you will

find them identical. So, if you were to

ask the Lord God, "What should I do?

Should I keep your commandments? How

can I show you my love?", He would

answer you as He already answered in His

word. That is why this is His

word;

this is useful so that you may know

God's answer. The Lord said in John 14:15, "

If you love me, what is this? If you love me, keep

my commandments." May the Lord bless you

and help you keep

God's commandments. Let us pray: Father

in heaven,

we have heard this study of

God's law, and we ask that it be practiced by

every listener watching this

video so that our lives may conform

to the divine principles that you

have articulated in your word.

Because if we love you, we will keep your

commandments. Help us, Lord, and may your

word be glorified in the name of

Jesus. Amen.