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O How I Love Thy Law

O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.  Psalms 119:97 So many in the church today have set aside the Law of God as being unimportant.  They say it was nailed to the cross and that we don’t need to worry about keeping the Law anymore, that the work of Christ on the cross did away with the Law. Certain aspects of the Law, contained in ordinances and involving the Levitical sacrifices, were indeed fulfilled by Christ’s work on the cross.  For example, we need no longer sacrifice a lamb because Jesus Christ was the Lamb of God.  In fact, Christ was ALL of the sacrifices rolled into one on that cross.  But Christ’s work on the cross did NOT do away with God’s Law. Jesus Himself said “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.  For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.  Whosoever there...

Looking Unto Jesus

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith...  Hebrews 12:2 In Matthew 14:22-33 we read of the time when Christ’s disciples were out on the Sea of Galilee being tossed about by a tempestuous storm.  They were afraid for their lives, but Jesus appeared to them, walking on the water, and told them not to be afraid. Peter, wanting to reassure himself, said “Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.”  Jesus said, “Come,” and so Peter stepped out of the ship and onto the water, and began to go to Jesus. “But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.  And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?”  Matthew 14:29-31 They got back into the ship, and when they did, the raging storm that had terrified the disciples so greatly immediately ceased (verse 32 and Mark 6:51) and there was perfe...